Even if Veronica Parker didn’t ask who it was, he knew who sent it. It was Saxon Raglan.
That showed that the North family had lost control of the head office. Otherwise, Elton Parker wouldn’t be like this.
It was not Tom Parker, who was in such a hurry.
She was really impressed by Saxon Raglan, his meanness was absolutely fast and ruthless.
At least the time was much earlier than she thought.
The fact that she could move so fast showed that the game of chess played by Saxon Raglan had already been deployed. Including everyone, well, ‘Does this number include her?’ She asked herself.
After reading the text messaged, Veronica Parker immediately deleted it.
There was a knock on her door, then Lucy Underwood came in with a smile on her face and put a snack on her table.
“For me?” Veronica Parker stretched her head and looked in.
Lucy Underwood opened the snack inside and said, “There’s a new dessert shop across the street. My colleagues recommended it. I’ve eaten it, and it’s nutritious and delicious, so I went to buy one for you today. Try it!”
Veronica Parker looked like it was really her favorite food. When she was in college, she often ate what Toby Cage bought. She once complained that she was getting fat.
Veronica Parker’s heart twitched, and she couldn’t help asking, “Did you buy it yourself, or did someone else ask you to buy it?”
Lucy Underwood wondered, “I bought it myself. What’s the matter? ”
“Nothing, thank you!”
“You’re welcome!” Lucy Underwood smiled, “As long as you like it! You can also go to the store to eat, the ambiance in the store is very relaxing.”
After Lucy Underwood went out, Veronica Parker sat aside and started eating the food.
It was not that she was paranoid, it was mainly because she was worried that Toby Cage bought that dessert! With the lessons that she had learned from Suzanne Roland, she had to be cautious.
It was as if she had been kissed by Toby Cage that night, though through a mask, but if Nick Cage had known, things would have gotten worse.
Of course, she was not afraid to be known by Nick Cage, she was afraid that he would deal with Toby Cage.
She didn’t want the two men in the Cage family to fight because of her.
She would feel embarrassed if that happens.
Veronica Parker got ready to get on the bus when she got off work, and her eyes could not help but fall on the new dessert shop opposite her side.
Before she had a miscarriage, she wanted the food that she could it because of her pregnancy.
Veronica Parker walked into the dessert shop, and sure enough, as Lucy Underwood said, the ambiance was relaxing.
Mostly couples were there.
She ordered herself chestnut soup and sat down at a table beside the window and ate it slowly.
‘Sweet but not greasy.’ Veronica Parker said to herself.
She knew before those sweets were easy to be addicted to both physically and mentally.
She tried to quit sweets when she was in college, but she failed after all.
There was no way that Toby Cage would buy her sweets all the time.
Especially at that time, she remembered back in college, she ran at night on the school playground on a whim.
Just after running in a sweat, Toby Cage came to buy dessert when she calmed down.
While eating, he was so angry with her that she ran away for nothing.
Toby Cage said, “You can refuse.”
She said, “How can I refuse? You did it on purpose, and you know I can’t help it!”
After she got pregnant and gave birth to her six little ones, she didn’t eat many sweets.
Sometimes, she would be confused. In the end, she liked to eat sweets, or was it because love was too sweet? Or both?
Now she actually ate it again, she didn’t think it was too bitter in her heart.
Veronica Parker tasted it slowly, she drank her drink. She looked at the couple at the table not far away from her, they should be in love, the girl fed the boy and he fed her.
She suddenly thought that she and Toby Cage were so bored at that time.
Veronica Parker realized that she should never have come to the dessert shop and made it look like an aftertaste of her first love.
In a flash of sight, the glass door was pushed open and the tall man came into the dessert shop!
At that moment, Veronica Parker seemed to reminisce her memory from the past again, and all of a sudden, she went back to the way she was waiting for Toby Cage.
“Don’t you dare be late, Toby!”
“If I’m late, punish me!”
“Then give me a bite!”
“Come here.” Someone was watching them.
“I hate it when someone is watching us.”
Toby Cage also found her, Veronica Parker was busy keeping her head down. The last time she was kissed by him on the side of the road, now she ran into him again.
She said to herself, ‘She shouldn’t have come here to eat!’
Someone was sitting near to her and she didn’t notice it.
When Veronica Parker roamed her eyes around, she met Toby Cage’s heavy eyes and he said, “I told you, you can’t treat me like a stranger.”
“Do you still like dessert?”
Veronica Parker flashed her eyes and said, “I don’t like it. I happened to recommend it to my colleagues, so I came to have a look.”
“What do you recommend?”
“You don’t like desserts?” Veronica Parker asked subconsciously.
After asking him, she wanted to gag herself.
Toby Cage looked at her with his rippling eyes, and the atmosphere between them suddenly became sticky.
“I have something to do. I have to go first.” As soon as Veronica Parker got up, her arm was grabbed and pulled her down back to her seat. She pulled her hand back but Toby Cage didn’t let go. She said in her low voice, “You! Let me go!”
“If you don’t want to make too much noise here, just sit quietly.”
Veronica Parker looked at the guests who had not found anything unusual in the store and sat down. “Can you let me go now?”
Toby Cage let go of her and beckoned for the waiter, “Just like her.”
“Yes, just a moment, please!” The waiter went by.
Veronica Parker looked at Toby Cage who looked as usual and asked, “This store. It’s none of your business, is it?”
“You don’t think I set up a shop here on purpose to get close to you, do you?”
Veronica Parker was left speechless by his rhetorical question, which was indeed a bit embarrassing.
Besides, she not only gave birth to Nick Cage’s six children but also had a miscarriage. Toby Cage should give up.
“I have already told you that we should treat each other as strangers. Why are you still sitting here?” Veronica Parker said it straightforwardly.
“It would be weird to eat dessert alone,” Toby Cage said.
Veronica Parker’s body froze. It was what she said to Toby Cage before.
“Did you see someone eating dessert alone in the store?” Toby Cage added.
Veronica Parker looked up, and sure enough, the customers had their pair. Either two women, or a man and a woman.
Toby Cage’s words were unintentional, but she was too sensitive.
‘What kind of dessert is this man coming to eat?’ She asked herself.
Now not only Veronica Parker was uncomfortable, but also Leo who was waiting outside.
Veronica Parker checked the other street around the corner. For fear of seeing the black Rolls-Royce, if it was there, then she would be the first to die.
‘Miss Parker, hurry up and go! I’m working with my head in my hand! The last time I saw these two people kissing, now they eat ambiguous desserts together! Can you lay low? I’m so scared! If Mr. Cage knows about this, we are doomed!’ Leo who was outside said to himself.
Veronica Parker took the last bite of her dessert into her mouth and said, “I’m leaving!”
With that, she couldn’t wait to get out of the dessert shop.
Toby Cage wiped the corner of his mouth. He got up and followed her. He pulled Veronica Parker’s arm and dragged her to the bathroom inside.
“What the! Toby!”
They were inside the bathroom. Toby Cage locked the door and he stared at Veronica Parker in front of him.
Veronica Parker’s breathing was unstable and her chest trembled. “Are you crazy?”
Toby Cage raised his hand and slid the back of his hand gently across Veronica Parker’s cheek. “You’re the same as before, and you’ve never changed.”