Stella Grace was slightly stunned when she saw him.
Didn’t he leave in the morning? Didn’t he say that it didn’t matter if she asked for a week’s leave? He even threw her bag out of the car. What did it mean, him appearing here?
“Does the Chief have so much free time?” Stella asked bluntly. Her eyes were sharp like a thousand thorns, her voice unnerving.
Jasper Milton looked at her deeply. She could see her reflection on his pair of black eyes. He was silent.
Stella shifted uncomfortably. She grew restless.
Her intrigue was answered with cold, silent treatment.
So, she remained as silent as him.
The two of them stood face to face, the atmosphere growing ever more awkward.
In the end, Jasper spoke first in a soft voice. “Are you still angry?”
In fact, he had been so angry that he drove off immediately without her. But he did not return to the military base.
He traced her cell phone and found that she had gone to the hotel, and also that she stopped by the sanatorium.
Knowing that she was going to a coffee shop, he couldn’t sit still anymore. In the end, he drove over to wait for her.
Stella lowered her eyes.
She used those moments of silence to calm herself down.
Anger would solve nothing. It might even corrupt her, leading her to hurt herself. There was no need for that.
Stella got straight to the point. “You came at the right time. I’d accepted a job, so I’ll be gone for three months.”
Jasper frowned. His chest was heaving violently, and his breathing unsteady. “Do you think I will agree to that?”
“If the matter at your military base is urgent, I can ask Greg to send someone else over. It won’t delay your work.”
Jasper’s eyes narrowed. “I have pointed out clearly that the person I want is you,” he said harshly.
“A psychological test is quick and simple. The people in the industry are all professionals, and their abilities are not inferior to mine.
I’m just a volunteer at the base, I still have my own patients to attend to. My career and money are not under your control, and you can’t force me to do anything.” she tried to remain her composure.
“I can pay you as much as you want. I’ll give you as much as you want. I’ll definitely pay you no less than they do,” he said domineeringly.
Stella got a little annoyed. She frowned. “There’s no room for discussion!”
“What are you thinking? You only gave me three months, but you won’t be here for the whole of the three months. Stella, this is unfair,” he said rationally. He could see through all of her thoughts.
“You are claiming that I’m not being fair to you, but have you been fair to me?” Stella thought of what he had said over the past two days. She had no room to think, she only felt annoyed.
Jasper stared at her. “How was I unfair to you?”
Stella didn’t want to complain incessantly like a dissatisfied housewife.
“Jasper, I’m telling you from a professional psychological perspective that our personality is incompatible. Since there’s no reason for us to be together, why are you forcing me?” Stella asked, firm and cold.
Every word she said was like a knife to his heart.
He was so angry, his reason now took a backseat. His eyes were burning, and he wanted to set her on fire. He said angrily, “I can’t be as two-faced like you, warm one moment and cold the next. I told you that taking care of Bettany is my responsibility, yet you force me to choose between you and her. Do you have to be so stubborn?”
His words made her feel as she was cold-hearted and unkind.
Like a bitter, cruel, ruthless, selfish person.
She remembered Jasper telling her that he did not like women who were cold-hearted.
He liked a girl who was full of vitality, lovely and cute.
Sorry, she couldn’t do it at all.
She had been living in a gloomy, dark, and ruthless world ever since she was a child.
She was not forcing him to choose between her and Bettany. She chose to give up voluntarily.
Stella’s eyes were completely devoid of warmth. She had made up her mind to leave and live a new life. She no longer missed the person who didn’t understand and appreciate her.
“Then what do you want me to do?” Stella asked, locking Jasper in her gaze.
“Leave everything to me. I’ll handle it well. If I said I’ll marry you, I’ll marry you. I won’t break my promise. Please give me some time,” Jasper said in a soft voice.
Stella compromised. “I will leave for three months, which is not included in the three months that I have agreed with you. After I come back, you will still have another three months. You have half a year in total. Is that enough?”
Jasper felt her cold resolute, his mood also cooled down. He stared at her.
He didn’t know whether there was any love between them at all.
“Do you only have half a year’s worth of patience with me?” Jasper replied. He looked at her sharply, his tone questioning.
There was a slight pain in Stella’s heart. “It’s not too late for you to find out that I’m a petty person…
Jasper, in the future, you will uncover more of my bad habits. One day, you will understand that I am not the person you like. Are you going to stay with me halfheartedly then? Or would you want to start anew?
Don’t make any rash decisions before you fully understand what kind of person I am. Don’t force me to be sincere as well. You don’t know me yet. You don’t have the right to make me submit to you,” she said sharply.
Stella was very clear, her words were like a sharp sword that cut off all the love between them.
However, she had been hurt enough, and now she was like a hedgehog.
She won’t offer herself up so casually anymore.
Jasper did not reply directly. “Let’s go back to the military base first.”
Stella thought about her luggage and did not refuse.
She got into his car.
Lieutenant Shine drove.
The muscles on Jasper’s face were tight, and his eyes were heavy, as if he was deep in thought.
Stella looked out of the window.
She used to love reading magazines. Some articles were just to entertain the young ladies, while others featured stories of hardships and tragedies.
She remembered one of the stories, which probably went like this:
After a beautiful and elegant woman married her husband, she no longer put on makeup and stopped dressing up. She spent all day working hard in the kitchen and caring for her children.
Finally, the husband abandoned the woman.
The woman decisively divorced him and began to dress up again.
At a business gathering, the husband ran into his ex-wife.
She was glamorous, calm, and elegant, like a goddess. She was accompanied by her new husband. She was ever so graceful.
A woman could be an angel or a devil, it all depended on her significant other…