He thought, "Why is Mom here?"
"Let her in," Tobias said in a calm tone.
After a while, Cecilia came in.
"Mom," Tobias stood up and said in a respectful tone.
Cecilia nodded and gestured for Tobias to sit down. At the same time, she sat on the sofa across from him.
"Tobias, I'm here to talk to you about Natalie," Cecilia opened her mouth.
Tobias had expected it.
"Mom, go ahead." Tobias's tone was still calm and emotionless.
"Tobias, Natalie is a good girl. I hope you are sincere about her." Cecilia stared into his eyes.
Tobias was stunned.
"Mom, how do you know that I'm not sincere about her?" Tobias looked into Cecilia's eyes and asked.
Cecilia's eyes flickered and she answered, "I'm afraid that you can't forget the past."
"Mom, I've never been a nostalgic person. I only cherish the present. You think too much," he said in a low voice.
Cecilia stood up and said, "I do hope that's the case, Tobias. I have to go back, so that's all for now."
"Mom, I'll take you to the airport," Tobias stood up and said.
"There's no need for you to do that." Cecilia looked hard at Tobias. "You should think more about Natalie and not me."
A trace of helplessness flashed across Tobias's eyes. He replied, "Mom, I have spent a lot of time thinking about her. Don't worry about that."
Cecilia nodded. "That's good."
Tobias saw Cecilia off from YS Group and instructed Benjamin to send her to the airport.
Before the car left, Tobias looked at Cecilia and said, "Mom, I have forgotten everything about the past. Natalie is the person I want to spend the rest of my life with."
A hint of a smile appeared in Cecilia's eyes.
She felt at ease after hearing Tobias' words.
Tobias was her son, so she knew him well.
If Natalie did not have a place in his heart, he wouldn't have said that.
In the afternoon, Natalie received a call from Tobias.
Natalie turned a blind eye to the call.
Though the phone calls came one after another, Natalie still ignored them.
Then, a loud message tone rang.
Natalie's breathing hitched.
Since the text message must be from Tobias, she knew that she should not read it, as she thought that she had no interest in his messages.
However, she could not calm herself down. She had to read the content of the text message to do so.
Natalie had no guts to look at it.
She unlocked her phone and saw the text message.
"Honey, are you still angry at me?"
Natalie threw her phone onto the sofa.
Honey? Who said that he could call her that?
Cecilia even said that Tobias was just like his father, that they both were not good at expressing their feelings.
Would a man who was not good at expressing his feelings address a woman so sweetly as 'honey¹?
She thought, "Tobias must be experienced in relationships! Otherwise, how could he make me fall head over heels in love with him in such a short amount of time?"
She was not her previous self anymore. She had become so unreasonable.
At that moment, the cheerful ringtone rang again.
Natalie picked up the phone and answered the call.
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