What Avril didn’t know, was that Henson wasn’t looking at her, but was looking at Wendy, who was standing behind her instead.
He turned to face his bodyguard and ordered, “Go stop the students from coming out of the basketball court,”
“On it, sir,” his bodyguard replied curtly and
returned to the court.
Henson then walked to her side, his face full of cold indifference.
“I literally just recommended the most popular kid on campus to your president for the shoot. If making you the campus representative for the promotional pamphlet is enough to make you like me and want to make me your boyfriend, then I can easily phone the president up to tell him to change representatives.
“Also, if the reason you want to be my girlfriend is because you’re gunning for the position of mistress in the Charles family, I suggest you stop daydreaming already. I’ll just hand it to you straight – you’re absolutely not qualified to be my woman at all,” he sneered.
“That’s not it,” she said and shook her head. She looked like she was on the verge of tears. “I just really like and admire you, sir,” she said shakily.
He scoffed. “Then, do you know the kind of person I really am?” he snapped.
“You-” she said and took a deep breath before continuing, “You’re handsome, gentle, kind, smart, and is a man who’s admired by all,”
“Heh, so that’s the ME you like?” he pressed.
She nodded in response.
“Well then, I’m afraid you’ve got the wrong person as I’m clearly not up to your standards. I’ll have you know I’m a cold-blooded man who even treats the people close to him like sh*t,” he sneered, raised an eyebrow and continued, “Let me give you some advice, young lady. It’s not good to be so ambitious sometimes. I’m willing to turn a blind eye to everything that happened today, so you better not do something so shameless as to stop a man in the middle of his tracks just to force a love confession onto him next time. It’s unsightly,”
With that, he spun around to get on his car. After his car left, his bodyguards slowly hopped on their respective cars as well.
Wendy could only stare at the pitiful-looking Avril from behind her.
So this was how venomous his tongue could be.
She reckoned Avril must be devastated after being on the receiving end of his relentless verbal onslaught.
Carmen and Cael merely exchanged looks before leaving together as
they saw that some students had started exiting the court as well.
Linda shouted for Wendy to leave with them shortly after.
After she caught up to Linda, she looked behind her to see a lifeless-looking Avril being squished by a massive wave of students.
Wendy frowned and immediately walked over to her to pull her out of the crowd. She then sat her down on a lawn nearby.
Avril immediately started bawling her eyes out.
Wendy didn’t say anything as she merely handed her a few pieces of tissue. She then promptly tailed behind Linda to leave together.
“The way Master Henson was just now was super scary. I honestly thought he was just like us common folk, judging by the way you talked to him over the phone last time,” Linda commented.
Wendy pursed her lips and replied, “What he said might’ve been a bit harsh, but I suppose he means well. I guess he wanted to use his venomous words to shatter her own perception of him, to let her know that he’s not the perfect guy she thinks he is. He probably also meant to tell her to stop wasting her time and effort on him,”
Linda then pursed her own lips and joked, “That’s a loyal man for you. Every other woman must look like nothing to him,”
Wendy scoffed in reply. Linda giggled and fell silent shortly after.
Carmen gulped down a large cup of water upon reaching their office.
“I just thought it over and I realised, if I were Avril now, I don’t know how I’d be able to show my face on campus anymore. I’d be so embarrassed,” she said after taking a deep breath.
Cael nodded in agreement and said, “Indeed, she’d acted too rashly, but you have to admit it was super terrifying the moment Master Henson got all serious too,”
“Honestly, what kind of woman could even capture his heart?!” Carmen pouted.
Linda snuck Wendy a glance and grinned after hearing that.
She was proud of the fact that she knew something the rest of them didn’t.
She was amused to hear their conversation from an insider’s perspective for once.
Wendy’s phone suddenly started ringing, so she got up from her seat to head outside. She peeked at the caller ID
and wasn’t surprised to see that Henson had called.
“Oh hello there,” she said as soon as she picked up the call. Her lips subconsciously curled into a smile.
“I’ll be taking my leave first. Baron will pick you up later,” he said.
“Sure,” she replied.
The both of them fell silent for a moment after that.
“Did I give a good performance just now?” he asked.
“Huh, it was pretty good, I guess. I could see that everyone in the crowd was hanging on to your every word,” she said.
“What I meant to ask was, do you think I did a good job of warding away my suitors?” he rephrased.
She paused. Why was he asking her such a question?
“You were straight to the point with no hesitation. So, I’d say you did good,” she replied.
“Well, where’s my praise then?” he teased.
She didn’t know what to say. Why’d he want to get praised for rejecting the advances of another person? Who does that?!
He’d clearly just fatally wounded a young lady’s heart.
“Why should I praise you for such a thing? You got rid of her since you don’t even like her, no?” she retorted.
“If it were another man who was confessed to by a girl like her, he’d probably bring her home and sleep with her. So, don’t you think I’m a good boy for not doing that?” he explained.
She bit her lip and tried to hold back her laughter. “I bet you only did so because everyone was watching,”
“Are you trying to say that I did that on purpose? Well, that’s insulting. I’ll have you know I had my eyes on you the entire time,” he huffed.
“What are you trying to say?” she probed.
“I just wanted to tell you that I’m a very loyal man, dummy. I’m hanging up!”
he exclaimed irately and immediately hung up after.
She was speechless. ‘Henson, the three-year old baby’ should be his new nickname.
He could be so childish at times.
When Sunday morning came, Wendy received a call from an unfamiliar number. After picking the call, she realized that Sally had called her.
She was more surprised at the fact that Sally actually called her. After all, they weren’t on the best terms.
“Anything wrong, Sister Sally?” Wendy asked.
“Ross broke up with me,” Sally announced.
Wendy gasped in shock. “What happened?” she asked.
“It all started from the time we had dinner together at his parent’s place. He’d been upset at me since then as I kept interrogating you at the time. And this week, when I asked him out to watch a movie with me, he told me he had to work overtime, but when I went to his workplace to check, I caught him chatting happily with a female employee. I immediately felt that something was up, so
I got angry and beat the woman up. He then stood up for the girl and told me he wanted to break up with me. Tell me, Wendy, he did it on purpose, didn’t he? He’d been waiting a long time and was just itching to break up with me, right?” she ranted.
Wendy didn’t know how to reply to that at first. “Wait, so you beat her up without even clarifying the situation first?” she asked eventually.
“Women who chat with their male superiors on an off day really deserve to get their *sses whooped,” Sally snapped.
“And what is it you have a problem with? The fact that they did it on a weekend, or the fact that they were chatting happily?” Wendy shot back.
“Both,” Sally huffed.
Wendy merely pouted in response. She now seemed to understand why he wanted to break up with the woman.
She should’ve seen this coming a mile away.
Who the heck scrutinises their man like this?!
Ross didn’t even do anything wrong in this situation, and even if he did, why did she beat up another woman instead of beating her own man up? She was unsure if Sally was just dumb, or had an EQ that was lower than h*ll itself.