Blair gestured with her hands as she spoke. "No, you are wrong. I don't think Wesley has feelings for me. He takes care of me for my uncle's sake. I often see that he's been fooling around with Megan." She took a pause and asked, "Hey Joslyn, do all men like fooling around with more than one woman?"
"Maybe! Men are unpredictable, dear. You are such a beauty, Bless. Men like beauties. Megan is not as pretty as you. But she knows how to pretend to be weak and helpless in front of Wesley. Men are unable to resist these types of girls. Hey, I have a great idea. Why don't you learn a few tactics from her and show Wesley your weakness and feminine side?" Joslyn suggested naughtily. Ever since Wesley had turned down Blair's proposal, she had acted as if she wasn't interested in anyone or anything.
But whenever they talked about Wesley, she would feel a strange mix of emotions. She would feel angry, happy and sad, all at the same time.
Joslyn strongly believed that Blair should adopt some tactics when it came to dealing with Wesley. She needed to learn to discover ways to attract him by her beauty and tantrums.
"Show my weakness and femininity?" Blair propped herself up on one elbow and drank another glass of beer as she continued, "I wanted to, but he is such a blockhead when it comes to matters of love. He is always so slow in getting my point. Sometimes, I felt so mad at him that I wanted to beat him blue and black." She gave Joslyn a bitter smile.
"Why don't you try to seduce him? It could help you know if he's really not into you!" Joslyn was totally drunk and made a bold suggestion under the influence of the huge amounts of alcohol that she had consumed.
Blair rolled her eyes. "I did that too! But it didn't work. Last time, when Wesley, his mom and I went shopping together, he bought me a shade of lipstick and a bottle of perfume. For a moment, I thought he had feelings for me. I was so happy and desperate for him that I was ready to get laid. I strongly feel that an upright and honest man like him will not abandon a woman with whom he has slept, right? But before we got intimate together, we had a fight again. Well, it was not really a fight, but we disagreed and argued. At that time, I thought he didn't like me, and recalled Megan's words. That girl very openly told me that he had a thing for her."
Joslyn looked at her with a perplexed expression. She embraced her warmly, and her heart ached for her best friend. "I really feel bad for you. Why can't you just get over Wesley and move on? When you went to England and got engaged to Miller, I thought it was all over between you and Wesley. I didn't expect that you would get involved with him again after coming back from abroad. And now both of you are living together!"
Blair nodded her head gently. "Yeah, you're right! I should get over him but I just can't do it. It seems impossible for me to get over him and move on in life. Every time I think of forgetting Wesley, memories resurface which do not let me forget him. When I thought I was going to die in the torrential flood, he came to my rescue like a superhero. At that time, I realized that I had never forgotten about him. Even though he hurt me badly, I felt I deserved it. He bluntly told me he didn't like me, yet I went ahead and proposed to him in front of so many soldiers. I found many excuses to hate him, but I just can't remove him from my life." Tears rolled down Blair's cheeks as she began to sob lightly.
Joslyn patted her back softly, trying to comfort her. Blair continued, "I really don't know what to do. I have told myself countless times to stop loving him, but I just can't. I can't stop my feelings for him. I can't think of a life without him." Heartbroken and distraught, she innocently asked Joslyn the question that bothered her the most. "Joslyn, will Wesley fall in love with me someday? Will he ever fall in love with me?"
Unable to control her feelings and afraid of the answer, Blair burst out crying.
"Blair, please don't cry. If you want, I'll go to Wesley and ask him directly if he has feelings for you. If he has feelings for you, then both of you can be together. But, if he doesn't, you need to give up on him. You need to let him go and move ahead. I'll go tomorrow. Or better. We don't need to wait till tomorrow. Let's do it right now. Do you have his WeChat account? I'll send him a friend request now." Joslyn was too nervous and didn't have the courage to call and question him, so she decided to send him a WeChat message.
Sobbing softly, Blair fished out her phone and gave it to Joslyn. Joslyn found Wesley's WeChat account and sent him a friend request with her own phone. She also sent him a message: Hi, I'm Blair's friend, Joslyn Zhu.
She held her phone for a long time, but there was no response from Wesley. "It's perfectly normal. He's busy and has little time to play on his phone. It might take him three days to find the message," Blair explained.
Joslyn thought of Hartwell's work and sighed. She put her phone back. "Just like your cousin. How pitiful that we fall for men like them!"
In the parking lot of Orchid Private Club, a Hummer stopped abruptly.
A tall man got out of the car. He locked the doors and walked towards the club.
At the entrance, he saw a man in a black overcoat getting out of a black minivan. Their eyes met.
"Wesley? Why are you here?" Hartwell asked with surprise.
Wesley stood straight and saluted Hartwell. "I'm here to pick up someone."
Hartwell looked at the club. Suddenly he had a bad feeling. "Whom are you going to pick up?"
Wesley paused for a while, and answered honestly, "Blair."
'What? He promised me that he wouldn't bug her anymore!' Hartwell thought angrily after Wesley gave the name. "Oh really? What a coincidence! I'm here to pick her up too," he said impatiently.
'Oh! So Blair called Hartwell! Then, I guess I'd better leave, ' Wesley thought.
Just when Wesley was going to speak and take leave, Hartwell sighed and said, "Let's get inside first and check out what is going on there."
Wesley shook his head. He felt it was better to leave. "I'm leaving now." Now that he knew Hartwell had come to pick up Blair, he was relieved.
Hartwell was confused at his denial. "Why? Do you have any urgent business?"
"No." Wesley was not a man who would lie. He told the truth.
"Then come with me." Saying that, Hartwell took the lead and entered the club. Wesley hesitated for a while but soon started to follow him.
The hall manager led the way and pushed the door to Room 616 open for them. When the people inside saw that two men walked in and that one of them was in a military uniform, they went silent.
Wesley's gaze swept over the room. It stopped at the woman in Joslyn's arms. Blair didn't see him as her eyes were closed. She was sipping her beer casually with her back towards him.
When Joslyn saw them, she nudged Blair and asked, "Why did they come together?"
"Who?" Blair asked in surprise. She was wondering why her friends had stopped singing. She took a few moments to realize how the room had suddenly gone silent.
"Hartwell and Wesley!"
Blair still didn't get Joslyn's point. She shook her head and murmured, "Who knows? Maybe for work. Wait! Wesley? Joslyn, am I seeing things? I can see Wesley here."
Joslyn rubbed her eyes. "I see him too. That means we are not see things. They are really here!"
Her eyes were fixed as she saw Hartwell greeting the other guys along the way. The two men who had gotten into the room a few moments ago were now walking towards her and Blair.
Wesley nodded at Joslyn gesturing to say "Hi," and then stared at Blair, saying nothing. The two just looked at each other. Their gazes were so strongly engrossed in each other as if the others around didn't exist at all.
Although Hartwell wasn't happy that Wesley and Blair met behind his back, he still asked her, "So Blair, whose car are you riding in?"
Blair sat up and blinked her innocent eyes, her head in a mess. "Hartwell, Colonel Li, what a coincidence!"
"It's not a coincidence! I'm here to pick you up," Wesley said with a serious expression on his firmly set face. He was always so straightforward. There was not a moment when his expression would show his feelings.
Blair, Joslyn and Hartwell almost burst out laughing. 'Is he always so serious? Even before his family?' they wondered.
Blair tried her best to hold back her laughter. She didn't want Hartwell to misunderstand her relationship with Wesley, so she said in a flat tone, "Thanks for your kindness, Colonel Li. I think I'll go with Hartwell."
Hartwell, however, felt something wasn't right. He laid her lies bare for all to see. "Enough, Blair! Do you think I'm an idiot? Do you think you can fool me?" he snapped.