As Henrick watched the way she was behaving, he, for some reason, wanted to laugh but knew better than that. In the event that he broke into laughter, Allie would surely go ballistic.
"Allie, listen to me. Whatever happened last night, don't take it to heart. You are my girlfriend, and you don't have to hide anything in front of me. Just be yourself. What I like is the real you. So, don't feel embarrassed."
"If you can't even act as you please in front of your boyfriend, you're in for a tough life."
"So, Allie, with me, you can do whatever you want in the future."
Stunned, Alice bored her gaze into his handsome face with a smile. To be honest, she was moved by his words.
"Can you really tolerate everything about me?" Alice looked at him and asked in surprise.
Henrick asked in lieu of an answer, "Alice, how do you think of me? Why can't I tolerate everything about you?" That day, they could have a chance to talk about this question.
Alice's eyes flashed as she said in a low voice, "I used to think that you were a scumb*g!"
She almost shocked the daylight out of him. These words were so heart-wrenching!
Alice looked at his handsome face and suddenly felt lost, but then a smile spread across her face. "Now that I've been with you, I can pick up on your tactfulness and sensitivity."
Henrick instantly beamed with joy. Indeed, if this was not the power of words, he didn't know what was.
The first sentence had catalyzed his freefall to the bottom, and the next one could vault him over the clouds!
Grinning an all-teeth grin, Henrick looked at Alice.
Alice was humored by his tomfoolery.
"You really have a low threshold for compliments!"
Henrick replied, "That's because the one who praised me is you, Allie."
"Humph! You really have a way with your words. Let me ask you, how do you know who Mr. Poplar is working with?"
Henrick suddenly remembered what had happened the night before and was still in a bad mood. He filled her in with the narrative - from his call to Lane and what he had learned from Anson.
After hearing that, Alice was frightened anew. If he hadn't come to pick her up last night, she would have been taken advantage of by that man.
"What about those people now?"
Henrick replied, "The police station. They're building a case against those men."
Alice breathed a sigh of relief. "Good riddance."
Her eyes searched Henrick's face. She thanked him sincerely, "Thank you, Henrick! If it weren't for you last night, I wouldn't have imagined what would have happened."
"Fool!" Henrick smiled dotingly and said, "Allie, in your drunkenness, you had spoken your sober heart. Was what you said last night true?"
Alice's face turned red in an instant. Was it not too late for her to say that she didn't remember what she had said?
Soon as she woke up from her sleep, her memory came rushing back to her.
She would rather she couldn't remember anything now.
"What... what did I say?" Alice intended to crawl into the safety of her pretension for the time being.
This would be the most humiliating moment to ever go down in her history!
And in front of her Prince Charming.
Seeing that she had put on that act again, Henrick felt a little helpless. However, after what had happened the night before, he already knew that she still had him in her heart. That was enough.
"Henrick, I'm in the mood for potato chips. Get me the original flavor. I'm craving them now." Alice thought about it and changed the topic, since staying on it was too embarrassing.
Henrick stood up and said, "Give me a minute. I'll get them."
"Go on." Alice didn't dare to look at him but only raised her head when the door was closed.
The phone beside her vibrated. She picked it up and saw that it was Gia, who sent her a message.
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