However, Rainer's reaction was out of Carla's expectation.
He immediately shook his head upon hearing her and blurted, "No, no, no. Miss Carla, I think you'd better play with Mr. Terence!"
To be honest Rainer, wouldn't dare ride together with Carla in front of Terence.
That made Carla glance at Terence. She frowned upon seeing him and Rena preparing next to a ski boat nearby. She then said, "Mr. Terence is too busy. I shouldn't bother him. Never mind, I can see that there are many staff here. I can just ask one of them to ride with me."
Then, she went towards one of the staff.
It was a steep slope. The ski boat was not easy to overturn if two people were sitting on it together. What was more, she would feel a bit terrified to slide down the slope alone.
As soon as Carla was about to ask the staff, she heard Terence's voice.
"Nathan, come here! Get to the ski boat with Miss Rena!"
Hearing Terence, Rena immediately grabbed his arm. "Huh? I don't want him, Terence,"
she said while shaking her head.
"Be obedient," he replied without looking at her. He then walked towards Carla.
"Terence!"
Rena shouted but Terence didn't care.
Thus, she bit her lower lip and thought, 'You came here with me, Terence. Why are you riding the boat with that woman now? Do you even care about what I think?'
She was still lost in her thoughts when Nathan came over.
"Miss Rena, please sit down first," he said expressionlessly.
He was regarding what he was about to do as his job since it was Terence's order. It was already out of his concern if Rena wanted to ride the ski boat with him or not.
"I don't want you to ride the boat with me! Go away!"
Rena shouted angrily at Nathan.
"Miss Rena, I don't want to ride the ski boat with you too. However, it's Mr. Terence's order. Thus, I have to oblige," answered Nathan dryly. He then turned to the staff who was responsible for pushing the players and said, "We're ready."
Hearing what Nathan said, the staff pushed their ski boat immediately. Rena got extremely frightened when the boat slipped down. Thus, she screamed out, losing her chance to get angry at that time.
On the other side, Terence walked in front of Carla.
He raised his eyebrows and said, "Can you be a little more reserved? You can't just let any man sit behind you so close for fun. Do you know that?"
Laughing, Carla answered, "So, I'm not reserved? There are a lot of single women playing here. They all need the staff to play with them. Are you saying that all these women are not reserved?"
Then, she muttered in a low voice, "It's the twenty-first century now! I just want to ride the ski boat. Why are you telling me that I'm not reserved?"
Nonetheless, Carla wasn't feeling angry at all. Although Terence was scolding her, it still counted that he came to ride the ski boat with her.
So she laughed and added, "Mr. Terence, would like to play with your ex-girlfriend for a while?"
The reason why she said 'ex-girlfriend' was that his new girlfriend, Rena, was also here.
"What? Ex-girlfriend? Carla, dare you say it again?"
Terence exclaimed while gritting his teeth. He then pulled Carla to the empty ski boat next to them.
Carla sat on the ski boat first and looked back at him. "What's wrong? My ex-boyfriend! Are you getting uncomfortable being called this way?"
Terence also sat on the boat, hugged her from behind, and stretched his legs to both sides of her body. Then, he posed a question, "Who is your ex-boyfriend?"
Seeing the two in their positions, the staff behind them pushed the ski boat. And soon, the boat slipped down.
Carla grasped Terence's legs in horror and closed her eyes.
But she heard a clear voice in her ear. "When did I say goodbye to you? Since I haven't said that, I'm still your boyfriend, not ex-boyfriend!
Besides, we make love every time we meet. Do you think it's something that ex-boyfriends and ex-girlfriends do?"
Carla opened one eye, glanced at him, and said, "No, we didn't do that this time."
When her words came to an end, she immediately realized that she rubbed it in, so she closed her mouth right away.
There was a slope below the slide. Though the slope was not very steep, it was long enough.
"Are you reminding me?"
Terence asked while gently embracing her from behind and kissing her ear with his lips.
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