He addressed all the teachers as ‘pretty ladies’ with a smile, his behavior as elegant as a high-born gentleman. Because of that, he enslaved the hearts of many easily, leaving all the teachers with nothing to say but praise him for how adorable he was.
Miles sneakily winked at Catelyn with a smug look on his face, as though trying to tell her that he was fully capable of making people like him as long as he wanted to.
Catelyn remained quiet with resignation.
As soon as she settled the admission procedures, she hurried back to the office. She had only been out for an hour, and she might still be able to convince Anne to consider her working for a full day.
With that thought in mind, Catelyn sped up, only to run into someone’s warm, strong chest around the corner at the end of the street.
Thump!
She lost balance and stumbled to the side as her bag fell to the ground. She held onto the handrail to steady herself before she turned to look.
It was a tall man with an athletic build. He strode away without stopping and even seemed to be moving faster.
It was not that big of an issue to begin with, but the fact that he ignored her had provoked Catelyn. Her body acted before her brain, and she grabbed onto his wrist before he left.
“Stop right there! You’re just going to leave?”
What she meant was that he at least needed to say something for bumping into others.
Cedrick slowly turned and caught a whiff of the familiar scent of gardenias.
His dark, brooding eyes instantly shone in response to it. Ever since he had the perfume department in his company manufacture a perfume with gardenia scent four years ago, countless women approached him smelling like gardenia flowers to get close to him.
On the other hand, the scent on the woman before him was not as intense and smelled more like shampoo. It was faint, but it was still pleasant.
Cedrick scanned the face before him and realized she resembled Maia in some ways. Instinctively, and not liking to be touched by random women, he spoke, “Let go.”
When Catelyn saw the man’s face, her mind went blank. The features and especially the lips of the man looked dangerously similar to that of Jamie. More precisely, he looked more like her son, Miles.
If Miles shared 50 percent of Jamie’s look, then this man definitely shared over 60 percent of this man’s features. Countless thoughts raced through Catelyn’s mind as she stared dazedly at that face before muttering, “You look so much like this friend I used to know.”
“Are you going to say that it’s your ex-boyfriend now?” Cedrick looked at her mockingly.
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