"Em...I didn't take my phone with me at work. Are you at home now?" Jordan put his gloves on the
table and was about to change clothes so he could leave.
Lola paused and looked at the man in front her, "Brother, I have something to do tonight, so ... I won't
go back home. I'll be fine." She used to take an excuse that she would work overtime and stay in the
company at night. But now, She couldn't find any excuse for not coming back home. Her family always
had an idea already.
Jordan stopped and immediately thought it must be related to the Harry. Otherwise, Lola would not
make such a lame excuse.
"You are with Harry." Jordan said in a very positive tone. Except with Harry, his sister never stayed with
others at night in A Country, let alone the whole night.
Lola remained in silence, which meant she admitted it. Jordan took a deep breath and said, "Does he
force you to this?! Tell me honestly, Lola!" If the answer was yes, he would immediately let someone
bring his sister back. Harry couldn't do anything with the military.
Didn't Harry hurt Lola enough yet? What else did he want to do? He was really a man of violence.
"No, brother, we.... have something to solve. It's urgent. Don't worry, just go home!" Both her sister-in-
law and her nephew are still waiting for him at home. His brother should be worried on taking care of
both of them.
After hearing that, Jordan didn't persuade her anymore but still be worried. "Call me at once if anything
goes wrong."
"I know, dear brother. I will. Thank you." As Lola ended the call, the traffic light turned red and Harry
stopped the car.
Harry looked back at Lola, "Since you have behaved so well, I'm considering to cook something really
delicious for you today!" He looked at the time, and realized that it was just eight o'clock so the
supermarket was still open.
Lola put the phone inside her bag and replied without any emotions, "Since I'm behaving so good, can
you just drop me off?"
"Never think of that, Lola." Harry immediately refused. He won't take anything of Lola's constant
refusal.
In the supermarket
Lola, lost in her own deep thoughts, threw tons of snacks into the cart when Harry was picking
ingredients for dinner.
However, as they have not started to make dinner yet, it must be very late when it was done. They
were both very hungry already.
Therefore, Harry chose ingredients which could be cooked simply and quickly for Lola.
It was already past nine in the evening when they finally arrived at Crescent Spring from the
supermarket.
Crescent Spring had been cleaned, and all the kitchen utensils were also well-prepared.
Harry put a few big bags on the coffee table in the living room and picked the food ingredients out. "You
can eat some snacks first, but don't eat too much as you should also eat the food that I will cook." Then
he took the ingredients to the kitchen.
Seeing Harry going into the kitchen, Lola sat on the sofa, opened a few bags of snacks to eat and
surfed the Weibo.
Not knowing when he did it, Harry made a comment under her post and the comment was topped out,
"He is happy only when you are happy."
Lola was eating dried fruits while thinking about the implied meaning of Harry's comment. Did it mean
that Zoe would be happy if she could be happy with him?
She had changed Weibo accounts for several times. And this was a newly registered one after she
recovered. How could he know this new account? She actually didn't want Harry to know about it.
So because of Harry's comment, Lola's account won a great number of fans quickly. Soon after, her
identity was known.
What followed were mostly flirty comments, while there were a few hints of comfort.
Why did they sympathize with her? Lola clicked on Harry's Weibo, where the top post was, "I owe you
an apology. I'm sorry for misunderstanding you, Lola."
There was one comment, among the millions of comments, where Harry replied. It said: "Does it mean
that Lola has nothing to do with the death of your mother?" And Harry's reply was, "Yes. She is not
guilty of it."
Recently, Lola hadn't paid attention to Harry's Weibo, so she didn't know about this matter before. She
checked the date of the post. It was exactly the same day that he sent her the bouquet of roses a week
ago.
Looking at Harry, who was busy cooking dinner in the kitchen, Lola was in mixed emotions. He was a
public figure so she never thought that he would publicly apologize to her. He was really conservative
when it came to admitting his emotions in public.
Lola thought Harry was so unpredictable and this made her feel upset again.
At that very moment, the ringtone of her phone suddenly interrupted her thoughts.
It was Thomas Herren. Lola glanced at the man in the kitchen and realized that he just looked at her. It
was so weird that she felt a little guilty.
However, Lola still answered the phone, "Hey."
Just now in his apartment, Thomas Herren saw Lola's Weibo and guessed that she had visited Zoe and
was not in a good mood now.
"You have visited Zoe?"
Thomas Herren was rubbing his temples. He was too busy to connect with Lola recently. He was upset
at himself because he failed to check up on her.
Lola stood from the sofa and walked to the windows in the living room. She looked at the dim street
lights outside and answered, "Yes, I have."
"You can come to Crown Province if you are free. You can relax in here." He missed her so much.
Thomas Herren frowned when he saw Harry's comments under Lola's post. He even wanted to kill
Harry when he thought of him. He thought that Harry was a pretentious fool.
After hesitating for a second, Lola decided to tell Thomas Herren the truth as she found no valid reason
to hide it. "Thomas, Harry does not want to give up and let me go. But whatever he does, I'm working
hard to be with you. I'll do my best to be with you soon." And she was working hard to persuade Harry
to let her go. Or even hate her...
Lola had always wanted to refuse Harry. Perhaps, not because she hated him, but because she could
not risk to feel any pain from him anymore.
Thomas clicked on Harry's Weibo and saw the post. Then he was silent.
In a few minutes, neither of them spoke on the phone. It was getting uncomfortable.
"Herren, are you okay? You're speechless. Why?" Lola asked gently.
"I'm fine, Lola. I just want to say that I am not afraid of what Harry Si would do if you really want to be
with me." Regardless of the future, as long as Lola was willing to stand with him, he would solve all the
difficulties and the complications. He would even risk his public image for her.
But Thomas was wondering if she really wanted to be with him... Did she really want to be with him, or
she just desired to use Thomas as her escape from Harry?
"Dear, help me fold my sleeves. It's kind of bothering me while I'm cooking." Harry's voice suddenly
burst out from behind her. This scared Lola so much that she nearly threw the phone away. She was
nervous that he would find out who she was talking to.
Harry's voice sounded very gentle. However, his eyes were saying otherwise. She could only see a
dangerous warning in them.
"Herren, I have something to deal with now. I will call you back." She hurriedly hung up the phone and
walked past Harry to the living room.
Thomas grasped the phone and tightened his grip on it.
Lola stayed with Harry now. Herren remembered that last time, Harry also called her when she was
with him. However, Lola didn't hang up the phone in such a hurry...
Who did Lola really love? Did she still have feelings for Harry? The answers were obvious now, weren't
they?
Lola's hand trembled as she was holding the bag of potato chips. Harry would not spare her as he
knew she picked up a call from Thomas.
Exactly, Harry was getting closer to Lola and Lola smelled a sense of danger.
Lola's chin was suddenly lifted up by Harry, who locked her red lips with his and pinned her on the sofa.
After a long while, Harry stopped kissing her. Looking at Lola's confused eyes, he comforted her in a
soft, sweet voice, "Once I see you pick up Herren's call again, I will kiss you once. After you do that for
three times, oh no, twice, I would directly throw you to the bed. You know what I would do." He found a
perfect reason to get to her.
Lola was unwilling to listen to him. She bit her lower lip and asked, "Why should I listen to you? Herren
is my fiance, not you. You know that." And look at her, a woman who stayed with another man without
telling her fiance... She couldn't understand the people around her. But now, she couldn't understand
herself, too.
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