Frowning, Aaron looked at Silver Fox with his sharp eyes, in which a warning could be seen.
However, Silver Fox didn't care a scrap about his warning at all. All her attention was paid to Ximena, who seemed to be as funny as she had expected. Looking at Ximena, she said, "Set your heart at rest, annoying woman. I'm not interested in your man."
Hearing her voice again, Ximena's lips began twitching at the corners, as if she could do nothing but admit defeat. "You, you..." she stammered and could not go on speaking.
"Yeah!" with a mocking smile, Silver Fox shrugged and said. "Just as you can see, I only have a woman's heart... Hem."
"Hah...hah..." Realizing what she meant, Ximena chuckled in embarrassment. She pulled her arms away from the crook of Aaron's arm as soon as possible. Slightly confused, however, she took one last look at Silver Fox and then at Aaron. "Well," she said, regaining her usual countenance and gesture. "I...Well... I..." Struggling to provide a reasonable explanation for herself right away, she curled her lips and gave up. She decided to escape from the scene by saying, "I'm hungry. I'm going to have lunch. You enjoy yourselves."
As soon as she finished her words, she turned around and walked towards the garden house leaving Silver Fox and Aaron alone. However, taking just a few steps away from them, her face began twitching and she turned around to check on them from a distance. She wondered what was wrong with her. She had totally lost her face today.
Sorry for herself, her remorse was even worsened by the thought that she had said that she was Aaron's woman to somebody on the phone. She had even acted coquettishly towards Aaron on purpose in front of a woman. How pathetic she was. She thought, 'Are my thoughts too apparent?
Ximena, you do have to leech on to Aaron, but you should never lose your self-respect. Understand? Although you haven't had the so-called self-respect... Girl, you are trying hard to have that. Right?'
The more she thought and tried to comfort herself, the more she realized how ashamed she had been just now. If only she could turn back time, she would go back and wouldn't do what she had done earlier. Slapping herself hard in the forehead, Ximena had to shake her head in disbelief. Then things got cleared on her mind. All of a sudden, she concluded from that woman's words that she was exactly the one who had picked up Aaron's phone this morning. When she realized the fact, she could not forgive herself.
How could she lose face twice in front of the same person? As she thought about that woman's words carefully, she stopped her footsteps slowly.
'An annoying woman?!
It seemed that a moment ago that woman had said that Aaron saved her number as "an annoying woman" in his cellphone. How rude of him to label my number such a name on his phone?' Thinking of that, she could not help but frown slightly. Unconsciously, she took out and opened her own cellphone. Then searching through her contact lists she eagerly searched for Aaron's contact number. Before her eyes, Aaron's name turned out to be "an annoying man" in her address list.
"She is quite interesting," following Ximena with her eyes, Silver Fox said in a coquettish voice while looking at Ximena's back. "She's to my liking."
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