Daren’s statement did not merely mean that he would forgive her.
Rather, he was actually saying that, after she cleared things up with Ian, he would forgive her … and be willing to be with her.
To abandon the elder brother and go for the younger one instead … just what in the world had Ruby used her account to do in the last four years?
When Amber thought back to the dinner with both of their families, she remembered how Ruby had suddenly “needed to go on a business trip”.
Before that, he had even asked her, unprovoked, about whether or not she had met Daren yet. And even before that, when he had first heard that she was dating Daren, Ruby’s behavior had been very strange.
Clearly, Amber wasn’t imaginative enough, because she had always thought that Ruby just wanted to pull a bit of business over his way after establishing a connection to a family as influential as the Axton’s.
However, she never could have ever imagined that he would use her game account to fool around with other people on the Internet!
She was really about to go crazy! If Ruby were in front of her right now, then Amber thought that she’d undoubtedly beat him up ruthlessly.
Her hands were even itching to find a knife!
Amber forcefully suppressed the anger in her heart, and after transferring the chat records to her inbox, immediately left.
No one stopped her. In fact, when she stepped out of the room, a small hole appeared in Daren’s blankets. He looked at her balefully through that little hole, and Amber looked back at him with complicated feelings in her heart.
But she didn’t dare tell him a joke or even speak to him at all this time. Instead, she twisted her head around and left as soon as their eyes met.
It was only when she walked out of the Axton household that she realized that she. Didn’t! Have! A! Car! On top of that, there was no public transportation near the Axton family’s house, and if she tried to walk. She’d have to walk pretty far, and Amber didn’t intend on doing so.
Instead, she opted to call Ruby. “Where are you? Come pick me up.”
Ruby unknowingly replied, “Ah, where at? I’m out on a trip.”
Amber laughed coldly. “I don’t care. I’m going to give you my location. You can either come yourself or call someone over. It’s up to you.”
And without waiting for a reply, she hung up, sent Ruby her coordinates, and sat down by the roadside to rest-she had to rest, because she was so angry that her chest was hurting. She really couldn’t walk!
Not long after she sat down, Ian actually drove by in his car. When Amber saw him, she felt somewhat at a loss for words.
Ian didn’t look angry, and he stopped the car by her as he leaned against the car window and lazily asked, “Why aren’t you moving?”
Amber stared at him somewhat sulkily. “I just seduced your brother. If you’ve learned to be jealous, then why aren’t you jealous of him now?”
Ian looked at her as if he were looking at an idiot. “Who am I supposed to be jealous at, given how angry you are?”
“….”
Amber waved her hands powerlessly. “Aren’t you going to leave?”
Ian frowned. “You’re really going to walk back?”
Amber took a deep breath and managed to hold herself together as she said, “Can you please stop looking at me like that? If you don’t stop, I’ll really start doubting my own intellect.”
Ian actually listened to her and changed his gaze. However, it merely went from looking at her like she was a fool to looking at her like she was a foolish mortal.
She didn’t want to waste her energy bickering with him, so she said with resigned fatigue, “You can leave first. Someone else is going to pick me up in a bit.” She really couldn’t spend too much time with Ian. Otherwise, her anger would dissipate and she might be too nice to Ruby when she saw him next.
Ian suspiciously asked, “Really?”
“Yes.”
Ian looked at her again, and then really did drive away. Amber didn’t expect that he would just leave like that, so she ended up with a mouthful of exhaust.
‘Oh, very good. I’m actually even angrier now!’
At the beginning, Amber had only wanted to see how Ruby would respond to her accusations; she wasn’t certain that her hypothesis was right or at least, perhaps she just wanted to keep hoping that moral standing wasn’t that poor.
However, she didn’t expect that, after Ian left, Ruby would drive up and personally fetch her himself.
When he arrived, Amber had already walked out of the Axton family’s household’s district and was sitting outside the big iron gate, waiting for him.
Ruby got out of his car and glanced inside the gate. “What’s up with you?” His expression turned serious, as if he were about to get into a big fight with someone. “Did the Axton family chase you out?”
Amber expressionlessly replied, “Yes. Are you going to help me relieve my anger?”
Ruby rolled up his sleeves, but when he saw that Amber was looking at him with a cold and silent stare, he quickly stopped, rolled his sleeves back down, and eased his expression into something less serious.
Then, he got close to her and chucked. “You’re teasing me again, aren’t you? For a talented person like my sister, you’re the only one who would be chasing other people out. Who could chase you out?”
Amber looked at him with a weary heart, and then got into the car without saying a word.
Ruby attentively followed her in. Even after they started driving off, he still continued to put on a show for her, trying to make her laugh. Amber only looked on coldly, and she even felt a little sad for him.
Honestly, he was really nice toward her.
But when he discarded his moral principles, he really didn’t have a baseline left at all. Amber took another deep breath, reminding herself to not argue with him and to remain rational. When they arrived at her apartment, Amber invited him up, but Ruby refused.
It was then that she lost all patience with him; she lifted him up by his collar and furiously stated, “Let’s go!”