"You dirty snot..." Zoey spat and sniffed coldly.
Ximena heard that, but she pretended that she didn't and just looked away. She just took a step forward, encircling Aaron's wet arm with her own, intending to annoy Vivi and Zoey more. Then she said, "If you plan to go with her, then I guess I will just go alone. But, if you are not going together with her, let's go together. Okay?"
"Aaron..." With teary eyes, Vivi looked at Aaron. She was expecting something from the man. At that moment, the fight between the two women was no longer a matter of their appearances as to who was more pretty, rather it had become a matter of who was more cherished by this man.
Looking at Vivi, Aaron sneered silently and stroked her face softly while answering Ximena in a leisure tone, "Then let's go back together." As soon as his words faded away, Vivi's face became deathly pale. In an indifferent manner, Aaron took his hand away from Vivi's face and turned around without the least hesitation, heading to the car that was parking by the roadside.
"Aaron—" Vivi roared towards Aaron's back.
"It's late. Please give Zoey a ride and send her back," Aaron shouted a request to Vivi without turning his head back. Then without caring about the two women behind him, he walked away in easy steps under the rain, with Ximena's arms entangled with his.
With a triumphant smile, Ximena hadn't turned her head back to enjoy the reactions of the two women who had come to bluster her. When Aaron opened the car door for her she immediately got on the car. While inside the car she took a sideways glance at them. In the dim light, she could see that Vivi was clenching her hands tightly into fists and glaring at her in hatred, while the face of the woman by her side was covered by frustration and disdain.
Seated comfortably inside the car, Ximena turned her head slightly away from them when the sound of car door closing came to her ears. Other people's humiliation could not affect her at all. She had been looked down with all kinds of stares and indifferent glances since her childhood. It was a trivial matter that Vivi and Zoey were not worth her attention. They meant nothing to her.
She looked at Aaron, who turned the car around to get inside. It was not until he got on the car from the other side that she withdrew her sight. When they were about to leave, Ximena frowned all of a sudden as something came to her mind. She thought, 'Since Aaron's mother waited for his father for a long time and even waited for him to justify her status, she should not have a relationship with any other man. If that was the case, is his sister a member of the Leng Family?'
Thinking of that, Ximena shook her head slightly as she had an odd feeling that Zoey didn't look like a member of the Leng Family. She continued pondering, 'That woman called him brother. Is she a daughter between his mother and another man? But how could that be?'
Shocked by her own wild conjecture, Ximena looked at Aaron in confusion and asked, "That woman called you brother?"
"Hmm," Aaron affirmed calmly without any change of expression on his face. "She's my half-sister from the same mother but from a different father."
"Oh…" Ximena was held speechless. She was so astonished that she opened her mouth slightly, blinking with her wet eyelashes. The corner of her mouth quivered. She doubted whether there was something wrong with her ears, so she asked again for his confirmation, "She is your sister with the same mother but a different father?" This time she leaned a little closer to Aaron eager to hear his response.
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