They got seats facing the river with a great view.
Emily sat by the window, fiddling with the straw in the juice cup. Her eyelids kept drooping, as if she was dozing in a staff meeting.
"Miss Sam?"
After the man sitting opposite called her twice, Emily looked up absentmindedly. "Ah, Mr. Gray, what did you say just now?"
"My surname is Gibson, not Gray!" The man kindly repeated to her.
"Ahem, I'm sorry, Mr. Gibson!" Emily corrected herself in embarrassment.
"It doesn't matter." The man smiled and said politely, "Miss Sam, are you tired now? Your job, as a reporter, is really hard. I know. Just now I said that I just completed a master's degree last year. Now I work in a foreign-owned bank, and I'm due for promotion soon..."
"Wow, that's good. What else?" Emily urged, but she didn't listen to a word he said.
Out of the corner of her eye she stared at the pointers of the watch on her waist. She rested her right arm beside her handbag so as to answer the phone call at the first time.
Although she had never been on a blind date, she had seen a lot of TV programs. She was unwilling to come today because she was afraid that her aunt would be unhappy if she refused her kindly proposal.
However, she had already thought of a solution. In the fifteen minutes of the blind date, Tina would call her and ask her out for an emergency interview, then she would reluctantly leave here. After that, she would never contact this man and tell her aunt that she didn't like him at all.
About five minutes later...
Three minutes later...
As the man was in full spate, Emily silently counted the time. Just when she began to counting down the last few seconds, a person suddenly sat down next to her.
She turned her head subconsciously and got shocked as if she had seen a spirit. "What are you doing here?"
Simon held the car keys in his hand and sat lazily on the chair, looking askance at her with a faint smile. He reached out to grab the cup in front of her, and took a deep draught of her juice without hesitation. He gave a quite irrelevant answer, "I'm thirsty!"
Emily looked at the straw in her hand and swallowed drily.
Upon seeing this, the man opposite her asked politely, "Miss Sam, who is him?"
"He is..."
Emily opened her mouth and fumbled helplessly for words, after a long time, she could only answer him, "He is a doctor..."
She was completely shocked by Simon's appearance. She didn't expect that he would see them here, and she was so nervous that her heart almost leaped into her mouth for fear that he would carelessly call her "Mrs. Chin". If that happened, her aunt would know that she got married.
Hearing this, the man quickly said with a smile, "Miss Sam, I believe he must be your attending doctor, right?"
"Somewhat!" Emily whispered.
When she was rescued in the hospital because of drowning, he did treat her in some aspects. Saying that he was her attending physician was not a lie!
"So he is your friend! Nice to meet you!" The man smiled and enthused, "I have a distant cousin who is also a doctor. Anesthesiologist. I heard that working in hospitals is very hard, especially with endless surgeries. I have always admired doctors!"
Comments
The readers' comments on the novel: Purchased A Mr. Right
Hate deception and Abby and Dylan take the cake ,ugh...
NO!!! Tina belongs with Wilson…. Let Dylan and Abby get together...
Wow, once again the villain messes up the true love, Abby needs to go back abroad. And Tina’s true identity as the daughter of Bill Ambrey needs to be exposed! Then the families can “convenience marry” !! Abby is a witch....
Too bad Wilson can’t figure out that his and Tina’s ex’s and his cousin Desmond are conniving creeps!...
Anthea is so stupid, lying and leaving the man who loves her more than life itself. 🤬...
She deserves to be unhappy, being with someone she doesn’t love because of resentment for the exact thing she is doing, hopefully she ends up with no one. Calvin is a wimp and doesn’t love her, just wants a wife to please his family....
So the same basic story as Simon and Addy but stupid Emily is going to marry him! What a hypocrite! Ugh...
Emily gets more stupid every chapter, when did she pickup Calvin as a fiancé!!?? This story line is awful….very sad to do to Simon what she “thought” he had done but didn’t. She is truly a dumb woman. Simon never loved or really even cared for Addy….what the hell is she doing with someone she doesn’t even know or like/love. Awful 😢...
Emily is a fool, don’t let go of the man who truly loves you. Let go of the past, of which he did nothing but help someone who saved his life, and be happy with him… he is your soulmate....
Nothing like cutting off your nose to spite your face Emily. Just stupid! Ugh 😩...