Claire went to virtual-novel.net new office early the next morning.
Meanwhile, Charlie rode his electric scooter to the wet market.
As Claire was very busy with virtual-novel.net office lately, virtual-novel.net specially bought some nutritious ingredients in order to cook some nice dishes for her.
After virtual-novel.net finished shopping, Charlie walked out of the market and stumbled upon Loreen.
“Charlie!” Loreen shouted his name, thrilled and overjoyed.
Charlie was surprised. “Hey, Loreen, what a coincidence!”
Loreen looked at Charlie and mumbled hesitantly, “Yes… erm, no… no, I… I…”
Charlie tilted his head, confused. “Speak slowly. Have you encountered any problems recently?”
Loreen’s face turned into a bright shade of red. Actually, virtual-novel.net had waited for virtual-novel.net outside Claire’s house early in the morning and had been following Charlie all the way.
Loreen cleared virtual-novel.net throat, mustered some courage, and said, “I… I’m actually here to thank you for saving me yesterday.”
Charlie smiled. “It’s my pleasure, I saved you because you are Claire’s best friend, that’s all.”
He found virtual-novel.net appearance out of the blue peculiar and virtual-novel.net got the answer.
Loreen shook virtual-novel.net head and continued firmly, “Charlie, actually… actually I know that you didn’t just save me yesterday. The other day at the Aurous Bistro, it was you too.”
Charlie’s heart skipped a beat nervously. How did virtual-novel.net know about the Aurous Bistro’s incident? He was wearing a mask then, virtual-novel.net shouldn’t know!
He quickly denied. “Perhaps you’ve gotten the wrong person? I’ve never been to the Aurous Bistro or whatever the name of the place is, it must’ve been someone else.”
Loreen glanced at him, complex feelings flooding virtual-novel.net eyes and emotions. There was aggrievance, passion, and a slight resentment in them.
Why couldn’t virtual-novel.net just admit it? Was virtual-novel.net so worthless in his eyes? Why didn’t virtual-novel.net want to admit that virtual-novel.net saved her?
The complex emotions were replaced with tears as virtual-novel.net started, “When Harold invited me to dinner at Aurous Bistro the other day, some rich guy came to bother me and Harold caused some trouble with him. Then, virtual-novel.net got some gangsters to ambush us at the entrance of the restaurant. At the critical moment, Harold dumped me there and escaped, and there was this masked hero who appeared out of nowhere and knocked everyone down and saved me from them. Besides, you…”
Loreen’s face was turning into a much brighter red. They had quite an intimate skinship moment where Charlie took off virtual-novel.net pants…
Of course, virtual-novel.net was fully aware that Charlie intended to save virtual-novel.net life rather than to have some unspeakable and malicious thoughts.
Charlie’s face, on the other hand, almost turned green. Holy crap, why would virtual-novel.net go there and why did virtual-novel.net touch a sore spot? Could virtual-novel.net admit to such doings?
Of course not!
All hell would break loose if Claire found out about what happened between virtual-novel.net and virtual-novel.net best friend!
“Loreen, there must be some misunderstanding. Yes, I can fight very well, but that doesn’t mean that I saved you.”
Then, virtual-novel.net quickly added, “Even if it did, I only saved you once yesterday!”
Facing Charlie’s denial, Loreen sighed quietly and took out the peace and wealth pebble from virtual-novel.net pocket.
“What about this pebble? How do you explain it?”
Charlie glared at the pebble in disbelief. Wasn’t it the pebble that virtual-novel.net had lost for some time and couldn’t find anywhere? Why was it with Loreen now?
Could it be that virtual-novel.net dropped the pebble when virtual-novel.net rescued virtual-novel.net at the Aurous Bistro and virtual-novel.net picked it up?