Amber was right below that window, and the window wasn’t closed, so she could clearly hear the conversation.
It seemed as if the Axton siblings were talking about something. Amber felt that it would be impolite to eavesdrop, but just as she was about to carry the cat away, she heard Ian ask, “You know Amber? What has she done to make you feel like she’s not a good person?”
Amber was shocked by the accusation. “….”
Her hands, which had picked up the cat, subconsciously lowered again. Ian’s words were a bit mystifying to her, really. Did Daren think she was a bad person? Just what could she have done or said that would make this shy and introverted fellow still attend her class with that opinion of her?
So while she wasn’t intentionally trying to eavesdrop, she was a little curious. In the end, she remained half-standing by the window. When she saw the housekeeper approaching her from afar, she even waved her away, and the housekeeper stopped, somewhat puzzled.
Daren didn’t respond to his brother’s question, and Ian’s tone turned impatient. “Daren, I’m not a patient person, so I’ll give you one last chance to respond. If you want to say something, then this is your last chance. If not, then keep it bottled shut for the rest of your life.”
“I’ll give you three seconds to decide.” And then Ian began to count down unhurriedly. “One … two … three!”
Honestly, Ian was already being pretty warm towards Daren by giving him three seconds to decide. If it were anyone else, then he probably wouldn’t even have wasted his time counting down.
Such was Mr. Axton’s personality.
As soon as he said “three,” Amber heard some footsteps approach the door. Evidently, Ian had lost his patience and was directly walking away.
But at the same time, Daren’s voice rang out, and he hoarsely yelled, “She seduced me, but then she turned around to marry you!”
‘…!! So this was what he had meant when he had said that she was a bad person!’
‘But when had she seduced him?’
Clearly, Ian was also wondering the same question, because she heard his cool voice ask, “When?”
Perhaps Daren felt like he had already said the scandalous important part, so Daren unhesitatingly answered, “Before she got in a relationship with you!”
He even sounded a bit sulky, as if he was thinking, ‘Brother, you’re a small-minded person. How could you steal my woman away from me.’
Perhaps Ian was also thinking the same thing, because he fell silent for quite a while.
And then Amber heard Ian grandmother’s trembling voice, “Are you sure that it’s her?”
“Yes!”
“She said that she liked you?”
“Yes!”
Ian grandfather’s panicked voice came out from the window. “Wait, old woman, old woman … don’t be like that, don’t be so anxious. Calm down ….”
Ian’s grandmother began to cry. “How could something like this happen?!”
Given the huge mess developing upstairs, even though she was shamelessly eavesdropping, Amber felt like she had to stand up and speak out for herself.
She straightened herself up, walked a few steps into the line of sight of the window, and yelled out, “I’m sorry to bother you, but can I say something?”
Ian’s entire family was stunned by this turn of events.
When all the Axton family members suddenly heard Amber call out from below, they all felt their scalps go numb.
Daren was the first to regain his senses, and he drew back the curtains and yelled out, “What else do you have to say? I even gave you my blessings, but why did you have to go for my brother? You’re too loathsome!”
As soon as he yelled this out, he started to cry. As he wiped his tears away, he shut the curtains again, ran into his bed, and buried himself in his blankets.
Amber was speechless. “….”
She swore, she really didn’t do anything!
She earnestly looked up at the window. This time, Iam appeared in front of the window. He looked at her and coolly said, “Come up.”
And so, Amber went upstairs with the cat still in her hands. The housekeeper had clearly heard Daren’s yell just now, and when she saw Amber move to go back into the house, she quickly stretched out her hands and said, “Why don’t you give Daggry to me.”
Even she was looking at Amber with a funny expression.
Amber didn’t have the luxury to care about what the housekeeper was thinking, so she handed the cat over, brushed some remnant cat hairs off of her body, and headed upstairs.
She had to say, the Axton household really was quite large. When she had been walking around slowly just now, she hadn’t realized its full extent, but when she was actively trying to rush back indoors, she felt like she had to walk a very long way.
However, Amber wasn’t in that much of a hurry. It was just a troublesome issue to clarify, she was certain that she and Daren hadn’t had any sort of excessive contact, and the only reason why he would think that she had seduced him was that he had some sort of mental conditions brought on by unrequited love.
She had seen this sort of patient before, one of the most common symptoms was that the patient would stubbornly stalk the other party, and even extrapolate from any brief encounters with the other party that the two of them were in a relationship.
Afterwards, when the patient found out that the other party had a boyfriend or husband, they would feel as if they’d been betrayed, and, in the most severe cases, might even lead the patient to commit murder.
Such patients tended to be antisocial, gloomy, and find holding conversations with other people difficult. As a result, they would push all of their emotion baggage onto their unrequited lover, and Daren’s personality did indeed seem to match that of such patients ….
In the blink of an eye, Amber had already thought up a few treatment plans. However, she never expected that, when she finally entered Daren’s room, he really did have evidence of the two’s “romance”.