Florence was cutting her own steak. Seeing the two men clinking glasses, she was confused, wondering if they had made a deal.
However, it was proved that Florence was too optimistic.
It was not only that Ernest hadn’t made a deal with Broker yet, but also they had a lot to talk about. She had already finished eating her steak, but they still didn’t seem to stop.
Florence had been sitting there for a long while, feeling a bit bored.
However, on such an occasion, she felt embarrassed to play on her cell phone.
Ernest noticed. Approached her, he whispered, “Have you done eating?”
“Yeah.” Florence nodded.
“There’s a shopping mall downstairs. You can go shopping. Use my card.”
Ernest passed a black bank card to Florence.
Florence gaped at the card, which was a top black card without any limit. Only three of them were issued in the city. She couldn’t help wondering why Ernest was willing to let her use his card.
If she was in a good mood, she could even buy the whole shopping mall by swiping the card.
“No, thank you. I don’t have anything to buy. I’ll do window shopping.”
Although she was moved, Florence still pushed the card back to him.
After all, gifts blinded the eyes. She was nobody to Ernest anyway.
Ernest didn’t insist. He just said to her in low voice, “Don’t go too far. Be safe.”
“Okay.”
Florence nodded at Broker politely to mean goodbye to him, and then she walked out from the restaurant.
Broker weirdly stared at Ernest. Although they just had lunch together, Ernest had already surprised him so many times.
Ernest always dealt with his work more seriously than anyone else. However, he was distracted by Florence from time to time today. He could even notice that she was bored.
If this was not true love, Broker wouldn’t be convinced.
Finally, he came up with a conclusion. Looking at Ernest with a solemn face, Broker said, “Mr. Hawkins, please do invite me for your wedding.”
The wedding?
The words sounded quite pleasant to Ernest for some reason.
He was overjoyed. Raising his goblet to Broker, he said, “Certainly.”
Walking out of the restaurant, Florence finally relaxed and didn’t maintain her charisma of being a gentlewoman. She exhaled a sigh of relief.
She always felt exhausted from socializing.
She pulled out her cell phone and checked the time. After planning the time to come back, she went downstairs for window shopping.
It was not bad to kill time by window shopping. However, Florence didn’t expect that she would encounter Collin there.
Seeing him, the scene that he wanted to rape her that night flashed through her mind.
Florence felt chilled. Subconsciously, she turned around to leave.
“Flory, wait!”
However, Collin wouldn’t let go of her. He rushed over to catch up with her.
Florence was startled, starting running. Collin was now a freak and animal to her.
She didn’t want to get close to him at all.
“Flory, stop running.”
Collin felt depressed. She ran away as soon as seeing her. Did she see him like a tiger or a wolf?
He ran pretty fast. Shortly, he rushed through the crowd and catch Florence.
Florence’s whole body was stiffened. Immediately she started struggling.
“Let go of me! Let go! Or I’ll call for help!”
Seeing that Florence looked warily and rejected, Collin felt a migraine on his temples.
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