She did it on purpose! Horace patted the window glass, pissed. How could she remember she forgot something right before the car started?
When Clara agreed to them taking the same car, he was happy and thought she really wanted it. However, he was wrong.
What did she mean? Leaving him alone here with another woman? How could she do that?
“Mr. Kirkland, Clara must have forgotten something important. She will catch up with us soon, don’t worry about her,” Harper said to him with a smile.
“Okay,” Horace simply answered without looking at her. He stared at where Clara had been sitting just now.
Had he been too tolerant towards her recently? Was it why she dared do this? Did she want to piss him off by leaving him with another woman?
Was he always this cool? Harper felt a bit embarrassed that Horace didn’t even take a look at her. But soon, she felt happy again.
She had always thought of herself as a beautiful woman. However, Horace didn’t stare at her face like those rich guys did with intense desire of getting her. Instead, he had only taken one look at her when she greeted him. It was as if he hadn’t noticed her beauty.
Such a cool man who was only gentle to the woman he loved was just her type. He seemed too good to be true and she wouldn’t have to worry about him leaving her for prettier woman in the future.
“Mr. Kirkland, do you have any hobbies?” Harper asked with a smile, trying to lighten up the mood.
Glancing at her, Horace only got irritated.
He was still pissed by what Clara had done. How he wished he could break the glass to vent his anger! He was in no mood to chat.
But since the conversation had started and it was Clara’s colleague who started it, he could only hold back his anger and said, “Working.”
“What?” Harper was stunned when she heard his answer, then she echoed with a smile, “You love working? What a coincidence! I do, too! I think one can only find the point of his existence in work. Every time I accomplish a mission, I feel a sense of achievement. It was as if…”
Hearing her chattering, Horace felt as if his head was going to explode.
Why was she so noisy? He had thought that young girls would definitely not take working as a hobby, which was why he said he loved working to end the conversation. Unexpectedly, she seemed to be fascinated by the topic.
Clara took the second cable car with others. There was about a three-hour ride to the island.
She didn’t feel anything at first, but soon, she found herself constantly staring at Horace and Harper in the cable car in front of her.
Horace was sitting there with his back to her, so she couldn’t see the look on his face. However, she could see the expression on Harper’s face clearly.
She didn’t know what they were talking about, but Harper kept chucking. Sometimes when she got excited, she would raise her arms. They must be having a good time.
Seeing this, Clara suddenly felt a bit jealous. There were tears welling up in her eyes.
She turned her head and tried to hold back her tears and not let others find it.
Horace and Harper were having a great time, it was exactly what she wanted. Horace would leave her alone once he found someone new, but why did she feel so uncomfortable?
“Clara, what’s wrong?” Although Clara had tried her best to calm down, Sarah, who was sitting next to her, found the unusualness.
“I’m fine,” holding back her teas, Clara forced a smile at her and said, “What will possibly go wrong? I’m perfectly fine.”
How Sarah wanted to tell her that her smile was so forced and weird. She didn’t know what had happened that could make Clara so unhappy.
Following her gaze just now, Sarah found that Harper was chatting happily with Horace. Was this why?
She turned to look at Clara and found her eyes wet. It seemed there had been tears in them.
“Clara, Horace and you…” Grabbing her sleeve, Sarah wanted to comfort her. She had had a hunch that Clara was still in love with Horace, now, she was surer of her guess.
However, as soon as she was about to say something, Clara cut in, “There is nothing between the two of us. Sarah, I don’t want to hear his name.”
After hesitating for a moment, Sarah decided to swallow her words. Clara seemed to be in a bad mood right now, she shouldn’t bring it up now.
Forcing herself to look away from Horace and Harper, Clara kept telling herself in her heart, “I have nothing to do with who he wants to be with. I shouldn’t and can’t be sad about it.”
After blurting out everything she remembered about praising working, Harper finally stopped and came out with a conclusion.
“Mr. Kirkland, we both love work so much. It’s such a coincidence, isn’t it?”
“I didn’t even say a word the whole time, how did she come up with this?” Horace complained in his heart. He simply forced a smile at her as a response, with no intention to talk to her.
However, he found it rare that a young woman like her would love working so much.
Seeing him smiling at her, Harper felt her whole world lighten up. Did he agree with her words? So, he thought it was really something that they both loved working?
Horace’s smile gave her infinite courage. Looking at him, Harper nervously asked, “Mr. Kirkland, in that case, can you give me your phone number?”
Hearing this, Horace’s face turned cold. How could he not know what she meant?
Raising his eyes to look at her, there was anger in her eyes. She liked him? Did Clara know about this?
Or, was it because she knew about it that she left them alone in the car on purpose? It seemed that he had been indulging her too much!
Seeing that his face suddenly changed, Harper felt nervous and wondered if she had said something wrong.
Just when she was in a fluster, the cable car swayed. Harper thought of an idea and pounced towards Horace…