She took his briefcase, and they walked side by side out of the airport lobby. Quintin teased her, “I’m busy all day long, so I don’t have time to go out. It’s just the power of missing you.”
She giggled, “What do you want to eat? My treat.”
“Really? Really, penny pincher?”
“Who is the penny pincher?”
“The first time I met you, you agreed to take me to dinner if you succeeded in the interview.
“You insisted to pay for yourself, and I didn’t ask you to pay.”
“Because you were short of money, and I’m a gentleman, so I gave you an out. Afterward, your salary went up again and again, but you didn’t even ask me to dinner. You’re really a penny pincher. But it’s fine. I’m always generous, so I won’t be bothered with you.”
“Yeah, there’s a cow over there.”
Bella pointed to the sky with an act of surprise.
“A cow?” Quintin was shocked, “Where is the cow?”
“Don’t you see? Is there a cow over there that someone blew into the sky?”
“…”
Quintin rolled his eyes and helpless with her dry humor.
After lunch, Bella accompanied Quintin strolled through the streets of B City and carefully explained the history of each alley for him. Quintin was surprised to ask, “How do you know so much about this place?”
“I’ve been working here for a month or two, so I’m familiar with it.”
“Didn’t you say you were busy with work? I told you to go back to F City and you said you were too busy to eat, so how did you have time to familiarize yourself with these places?”
Bella swallowed her saliva and replied guiltily, “I have a photographic memory and it just takes me one day to be familiar with these places.”
In the evening, they had dinner together and then had fun in KTV until midnight. Quintin sent Bella back to rest. In order to avoid gossip, Bella let him send her to the cilent apartment.
Before getting off, Quintin grabbed her hand, and she hesitantly asked, “What’s wrong?”
“Do you forget something?”
He meant a goodbye kiss, but Bella was quite embarrassed. When her phone rang, she immediately retracted her hand, beeped, and said, “Who calls me in the middle of the night and …”.
As she pressed to answer and pushed the door open, “Hello?”
“Why did you take the day off again today?”
The phone call was from Kevin. Bella took a leave of absence only by reporting to the team leader and didn’t need to report to the president, so Kevin knew she had a day off until the afternoon.
“Oh, Mr. Stock is here.”
Bella smiled and waved to Quintin, turned, and strode into the apartment.
“Are you not coming back tonight?”
“Well, yes.”
As soon as she said this, she thought that Kevin would definitely misinterpret the meaning of her words, and immediately explained, “It’s late now, so I slept in the apartment.”
“Alone?”
“Right.”
Beeping, Kevin hung up the phone. Bella grunted in depression at the phone, “What the hell? He hung up.”
The next day was Saturday, so she still didn’t have to work. Quintin came to the apartment early in the morning to pick up Bella out. She got into the car and asked, “Where do you want to go today?”
“Go to sea.”
“Go to the sea?” She stared in horror, “Why?”
“I’ve chartered a yacht to take you out for a sea breeze.”
“No way, it’s freezing cold without a breeze, and you’re going to blow the sea breeze. Do you want me to die faster?”
Bella said and sneezed.
“Don’t worry. I’m responsible if you freeze to death.”
Quintin smiled shyly, “I’ll be more responsible if you don’t freeze to death.”
Bella laughed helplessly, looking like she couldn’t do anything about it.
Kevin sat at home in the study, holding a psychology masterpiece Cast Heavy, but was distracted. From last night to now, he was so upset because he knew Bella had been accompanying Quintin.
With a snap, he threw the book aside, leaned against the back of the chair behind him, and closed his eyes.
Didn’t she say that she would stay by his side from now on, but why did she ignore him when Quintin came?
Do you stay with him just because you feel sorry for him?
What would they do together? They stayed together, and love would be rekindled …
The more he thought about it, the more annoyed he became, so he didn’t want to think about anything, got up and took the car keys to prepare to go out. If continued to think about it, he had the intention to kill.
Quintin drove the yacht to the center of the sea, suddenly held a bouquet of fiery red roses out of nowhere, and handed to Bella, “Accept my marriage proposal, Miss Finger?”
Bella was startled, obviously, a little overwhelmed by his sudden action, wanted to reject Quintin, but now was not the right time.
“This … I’m still considering it.”
“You’ve been thinking about it for too long. People who are married are divorced, and you haven’t thought it through.”
“Is the marriage for the sake of divorce? Then I’d better not accept it.”
Quintin playfully explained, “Of course not, I mean you’ve been thinking about it for too long, so far I haven’t even touched your hand. We really need to go further.”
“Haven’t you touched my hand?”
Bella glared at him.
“You still have the nerve to say that. Which lovers are as conservative as us? In my grandmother’s time, they were more open than us now.”
“We need time for our romance to go further. It isn’t that I agree to your proposal and we can have physical progress by leaps and bounds. Can you not reveal your ambition so obviously?”
Quintin rolls his eyes and was speechless again …
After staying in B City for two days, Quintin was about to return to F City, and when Bella sent him to the airport, he said with infinite regret, “Hey, I came here again for nothing this time.”
“How did you come for nothing?”
Bella was puzzled.
“I was trying to put a proposal in place by this opportunity, but you ruthlessly rejected me again.”
“I didn’t reject you. I just said we had to wait.”
“How long do you have to wait? Don’t you know that I have been waiting for a long time?”
“…”
After sending Quintin away, Bella returned to the Cloud Mansion. Only her mother-in-law was at home, and she was surprised and asked, “Is Kevin not there?”
“He went out that afternoon and hasn’t come back yet.”
“Oh.”
Bella also didn’t take it to heart, took her mother-in-law’s arm, and said, “We go out to eat tonight. I know a new restaurant opened in the north of the city, and the food is delicious.”
I know a new restaurant opened in the north of the city, and the food it makes is delicious.” “Okay.”
The mother-in-law agreed but also worried about her son, “Then we go out to eat. What if Kevin comes back?”
“Don’t mind him. He’s not even back now, and he’s definitely eating out tonight.”
They went out of the house arm in arm and didn’t come home until nine o’clock in the evening, and when they got off the car, Bella saw Kevin’s car parked in the distance, so she knew he was also back.
She went straight upstairs and saw Kevin in the bedroom, so she walked in and casually asked, “Have you eaten dinner yet?”
Kevin faintly gave her a glance and said with sarcasm, “You work really hard.”
Bella suddenly froze and didn’t understand the meaning of his words, raising her eyebrows, “What am I working hard?”
“Isn’t it hard to date with two men and have to take care of them at the same time?”
Bella suddenly realized that Kevin insinuated words were to blame her accompanied Quintin for two days and neglected him.
“Mr. Stock rarely comes to visit, and I am his special assistant and should accompany him around.”
“Are you just a special assistant? How do I remember that you already accepted his love in front of me?”
“I was angry with you.”
Bella looked down and muttered.
“What about now? And now why did you do this? You righteously promised to stay by my side, but then entangled with Quintin. I’ve never seen such a fickle woman like you.”
Bella suddenly stared at him, incredulously asking, “You said I’m a fickle woman. I’ve known you for so long. Don’t you know what kind of person I am?”
“Then give me one reason why you are two-timing me?”
She rubbed her chest, trying not to get angry, “Don’t you know why I’m two-timing you? The new product has entered the end of research and development. What a critical moment! As long as we hold on for another week, the product can be successfully launched. If I tell Quintin that you are my ex-husband now and there is no way I will accept his feelings, what will he do?”
Kevin was also incomparably clear with the stakes of this without Bella telling him. Once Quintin suspended cooperation, their efforts for two months would be all in vain.
“I don’t need a woman to sacrifice her lust to maintain my business. Even if it will cause serious financial losses, I don’t care. You either confess to him or move out of my home. There is no third choice.”
Kevin was actually jealous. He was crazy jealous of Bella and Quintin being together.
“You don’t care about the economic loss, but at least you should respect the fruits of everyone’s labor. This is the result of everyone’s hard work overtime. You can’t let all of our efforts be in vain because of your decision!”
Seeing that she didn’t agree to make it clear to Quintin, Kevin became angrier. He said sarcastically, “Don’t think you are the god. I don’t care about such a result. Why do you care? In my opinion, you don’t feel sorry for everyone’s efforts at all. You just want to leave a back-up option for yourself. If we can’t get together, at least there is Quintin, the back-up.”
“You bastard!”
Bella annoyed and pushed him, “I wholeheartedly love you, but you actually misunderstand me. When you get well, I’ll leave you immediately. Even if you invite me in the most honorific manner, I will not come back!
“You really take yourself seriously. If I beg you to come back after you leave, I’ll change my name and crawl around the earth!”
“You better remember what you said!”
“I don’t need you to remind me. I won’t forget!”
…
Bella was really angry. He was just jealous and so arrogant. One day, she would make him pay for what he said today.