"Um, obviously, you two want to catch up on things, and I won't disturb you. I'm leaving." Belinda then felt a slight twinge of sadness in her nose. She didn't want to hear their conversation and be ignored anymore.
"Where are you going?" Duke grasped Belinda's arm quickly, looking flurried. 'Damn! How did I neglect Belinda?' he thought.
"I'm hungry, I'm going somewhere to eat. You two carry on. Don't mind me." Belinda smiled magnanimously. She had just asked him whether he had ever loved someone deeply, and now his beloved one turned up. Studying the expression painted on Duke's face, Belinda didn't believe for a moment that Rachel Qin was just a casual passer-by in his life. He might still have feelings for her.
"Belinda, what's that supposed to mean?" Duke's face quickly turned solemn. He glared at Belinda, and thought, 'How could she push me to another woman so generously?'
"It means that you two seem to have a lot to catch up. I'm excusing myself so that you can say whatever you want to say." Belinda sneered, and thought, 'He let go of my hand when he saw the woman. Apparently, he didn't want her to know that we're together. So as he wishes, I leave. They can do whatever they want.'
"I have nothing to say to her. Let's go to another place," he said. Duke then dragged Belinda out of the restaurant without looking again at Rachel Qin. The two women hadn't even been introduced to each other.
"Duke, Duke, ..." Rachel ran up to them, and thought, 'Who is that woman? She can't be his wife, because according to my inquiries, Duke isn't married. That means I still have a chance to win him over!'
"Won't you wait for her?" asked Belinda. She looked back at Rachel Qin and then glimpsed at Duke, who was furious. 'Does he really have to run away from her like this?' she wondered.
"Shut up, woman! Don't anger me!" Duke turned to glare at her, and wondered, 'Is she actually so generous, or is it because she doesn't care about me at all? What kind of woman would push her own husband to someone else?'
"It wasn't me who angered you, as far as I can see," she said. Belinda provoked him even further. Duke was irritated the moment he saw the woman, and had flared up because the woman had laid bare his mind with one single penetrating remark. 'Does he still love her?' she thought.
"If this is what you really want, then that's what you'll get!" Duke then pulled Belinda into his arms, and wildly pressed his cold thin lips onto hers.
Rachel Qin was shocked when she saw the kissing couple. She stopped walking, and thought that Duke had never kissed her like that before in public. 'Is he acting, or does he really love her?'
She turned around and staggered away, with her heart torn into pieces. 'Have I really lost him after all? Oh, but how deeply he used to love me!' She turned and looked again at the couple who were still affectionately kissing. Resentment flooded into her heart, and she thought, 'Duke, as long as you are not married, I still have a chance at you. You belong to me! You can only love me!'
"She's gone. Let's cut the act," said Belinda. Belinda pushed him away. In fact, she had been moved, but when she spoke to him, her words sounded so irritating that he wanted to punch her straight in the face.
"Woman, do you have to talk to me like this? Are you jealous?" Duke's rage then turned into a smile.
"Jealous? I can be angry, happy, or sad, but sorry, not jealous. You're overthinking things." Belinda ran to the roadside and hailed a cab, and then got inside it and left without even looking back once.
"Shit!" swore Duke ruefully. 'That woman is quick. What is she thinking? Is she mad at me? But Rachel Qin and I are over. Today we met by chance.
And what is Rachel Qin really up to anyway?' He had begged her to stay with him years ago, but she left anyway. Now she was back, and told him that he was the one she truly loved. That was bullshit! Had the other man mistreated her? Was this the reason why she came back? But how could they ever go back to how they were after everything that had happened between them? 'Rachel Qin, are you too naive, or do you just believe that I can't live without you?'
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