Chapter 45 Beat
Zack took
to a salad restaurant, and it surprised me
“Why are we here?” Lasked.
“It seems that you don’t have much of an appetite, you might not be able to handle greasy food,” he said while pulling out a chair for me before pouring me a cup of tea.
Itelt better after sipping the hot tea, although my appetite was still lacking in the end, I just ordered a Caesar salad and slowly ate it.
Zack seemed unbothered, and he watched me with a smile as late. Suddenly, he pulled out a napkin and gently wiped my mouth. I instinctively recoiled, and he immediately withdrew his hand.
“You’ve got it all over your mouth. You must be pretty hungry,” he commented.
Feeling awkward, I took the napkin from him, but a sudden chill ran down my spine.
“Oh, Eva! So, you’re not at work because you’re on a date with your senior.” Lily’s mocking voice rang out
Trolled my eyes while Zack couldn’t help but chuckle.
Lily seemed unsatisfied with my reaction and deliberately linked arms with Leonard as they walked over to us.
“Caesar salad? Eva, are you feeling unwell?” she asked. “But since Mr. Boyd’s here, I guess there’s nothing to worry about, right? but have you forgotten that you’re married! coming out like this is really inappropriate.”
Leonard just stared at me without saying a word despite Lily’s jobbering.
I wiped my mouth and nodded seriously. “Yes, and aren’t you two just brazenly walking arm in arm our to dinner?”
“Zack and I are just having a meal. There’s nothing scandalous about that,” I said, marveling at Lily’s shamelessness. If I were as shameless as her in the past, then things wouldn’t have gone so sour between Leonard and me.
Leonard finally spoke up after hearing me retort against his sweetheart.
“Eva, watch your words. You’re on a date with Zack yourself, aren’t you?”
Meeting his fiery gaze, I burst out laughing, “What else should I say? Sorry, I’m just a design major with a limited vocabulary. Please pardon me, Mr. Harmon.”
I picked up my bag and glanced at Zack. “Are you done? Let’s go ”
Zack stood up to join me, but Lily seemed determined to make things difficult for me and blocked my path again.
“Eva, you just had a scandal not long ago, and the online gossip was terrible. You should keep a low profile. You and Leonard aren’t divorced yet, but here you are with someone else. Do you think you’re very charming, or is it.”
It seemed that every time I had chemotherapy, I would have a nosebleed that day. I quickly grabbed a napkin and pressed it against my nose, but the bleeding wouldn’t stop.
“What’s going on? Why do you keep getting nosebleeds?” he asked while trying to get closer, but Zack blocked him.
After a while, the bleeding finally stopped, but 1 telt dizzy. Instinctively touched the top of my head, the sensation of losing hair quickly snapped me back to reality. 1lowly pulled away the strands of hair from my hand and felt my tears welling up I’d always been vain, and the thought of going bald, even starting with patchy hair loss, was something that I couldn’t quite come to terms with. Although I hadn’t lost too much hair yet, it was already more than usual
Thankfully, Zack didn’t notice my hair loss and handed me a bottle of water.
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Beautiful novel and I hope Eva and Jack get together and they have a kid too. Jack loves her a lot...