"What?" She was shocked. "What do you mean?"
He glimpsed at Maggie while he filled his plate with rice as well. After eating a piece of fried eggplant, he slowly said, "I mean exactly what I said. You can eat whatever you want, as much as you want. Just eat." He watched Maggie's angry face and shrugged. "You wanted this, right?"
However, when she saw the mockery on Tompson's face, she felt even angrier. So she decided to turn anger into hunger. She began eating like a glutton, as if what she was biting into was not food, but Edgar's body. That was what she craved, but she filled up on food instead.
While eating, Tompson made his voice sound as natural as possible and asked, "What? Did you succeed with your confession?"
Maggie suddenly shot him a stare. "Who told you... that I went to confess to him?" Infuriated, she clenched her teeth, as if to say, 'Don't mess with me, or else the consequence will be disastrous.'
"It's so easy to guess that part." He completely ignored Maggie's anger. "You had just found out that the man in your heart had saved you.
Of course you would confess to him." Maggie fell silent, unable to find anything with which to refute this. Unlike her ferocious eating earlier, she began to eat slowly, and without appetite. Perhaps, she just found that the food had lost its taste.
Tompson was feeling uneasy, but he knew that he shouldn't rush. Though Maggie looked smart, she was really oblivious to her surroundings, and she was especially so when it came to things concerning emotions and love. In the past, everyone else had known that he loved her except for her, while she was secretly loving a man who was more than ten years older than she was. If her experiences were to be written as a novel, it would be really dramatic. The title could be, "Love Me, Old Man!", or, "Deeply In Love With An Old Man".
Suddenly, Tompson felt disgusted, but he managed to suppress his own feelings and said, "When we were doing the drill, Blue Force and we... I heard that most of the S Army was assigned to Blue Force, including the Eagle Special Brigade."
"Sounds like you don't really belong to S Army..." Maggie shrugged indifferently.
"I am a military doctor. I think I should belong with the director department." He rolled his eyes and said derisively, "Please, use your brain."
"Sorry, I left my brain in the patient ward. I didn't bring it along with me," she snipped him.
"You are like a stone in the toilet," he retorted, deeply annoyed at her words.
"What?" Maggie hadn't quite heard what he just said.
"Stubborn and smelly." He imitated Maggie by clenching his teeth as well, though he did so in an excessive way to illustrate his point.
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