Too Much to Bear, My Love novel Chapter 497

Stephanie crossed her arms in front of her chest. “Do you want to marry me or not? Tell me.”

Noah sat next to her, grabbed her hand, and pulled her into his embrace rather forcefully. As a result, the round chair she was sitting on fell to the ground.

When she fell into his embrace, her nose accidentally hit the man's chest. The only thing she felt at that moment was pain.

While covering her nose, she smacked his chest. “What are you doing? It hurts, you know that?”

He held her face and carefully examined her reddened nose. Then, he planted a kiss on it and said, “I'm sorry. It's my bad. I just want to hug you because you're very cute today. In fact, I would like to do it with you right away, but the current time and place are not suitable for it.”

It was only then did she simmer down. Right after that, she sat on his thighs brazenly.

She took off his glasses and studied his face in detail before praising, “Now I realize you're pretty good-looking, Noah. You're a little lacking compared to my brother, but you're not as bad as I thought.”

Noah grabbed her hand and smiled. “Thank you for the compliment, my princess.”

After Stephanie used her other hand to grab his tie, she turned toward the servers, who were staring at them, and smiled. “Those servers are staring at us, Noah. Do you think they'll call the police if we really do something daring?”

“Even if they call the police, I won't let them do anything to you.”

“Oh wow, Noah. I didn't know you aren't as much a gentleman as you looked.”

“I only show my beastly side to my princess.”

She was thoroughly delighted by his words.

“Let's get married, Noah. It's not every day I get the urge to do so. Another opportunity like this won't come again easily.” She spoke openly and bluntly.

“You really thought this through?” he questioned her back as he stared straight into her eyes.

It wasn't the best time for him to get married at the moment, and he knew it. Olivia still held some misunderstandings about him, so it wasn't the ideal time to talk about marriage. That was why he was treating Stephanie's proposal as nothing more than a tease.

Stephanie pulled his tie and continued to speak with a domineering look. “You don't want to marry me, Noah? Is it because you don't really mean it when you said you love me? Is there already another woman in your heart?”

Noah couldn't refrain from laughing. “I wish I could stay with you all day and prioritize you. Our family backgrounds are similar, so if I'm not truly in love with you, why do you think I'm doing my best to please and accompany you?”

She gave it some thought. He isn't wrong.

“Since you love me that much, I give you permission to marry me. However, after I marry you, you aren't allowed to restrict my freedom or my ability to make friends. Also, you can't order me to cook, and you can't...” She proceeded to list out a bunch of conditions.

A cold glint flashed across his eyes. This woman sure does have a lot of annoying conditions. If I do everything she asks, I'll be basically marrying a spoilt queen I can't offend instead of a caring wife.

He scoffed inwardly, tightened his fists, and gradually relaxed them.

“What's the matter? Do you think my conditions are too much? When you started courting me, you said you'll respect me and my desires. You promised you'll treat me like a princess. And yet, you're already thinking about how my conditions sound unreasonable before we're even married?” A dissatisfied expression loomed over Stephanie's face.

Noah returned to his senses and gently planted a kiss on her face. Then, he responded smilingly, “Of course not, my princess.”

He proceeded to say a lot of other things to cheer her up, including telling her that marriage was the most important thing in a woman's life. Therefore, he would like to take it seriously and plan it all out in detail. Since a marriage proposal should be done by a man, he asked her to wait for him so he could arrange the most romantic and exquisite marriage proposal.

He was so good at coaxing her that not a trace of anger was left on her face.

After sending her home, his face immediately darkened. He sat inside the car and watched the endless traffic under the night sky. He finally couldn't hold back his annoyance anymore and allowed the evil he had been carefully hiding throughout the day to spill out of his heart.

He lit a cigarette and put it in his mouth. After puffing out smoke a couple of times, the car was filled with the stench of cigarettes.

After he was done with it, he drove to a small neighborhood and called someone on the phone. He exchanged a few sentences with the person on the other end of the line before hanging up. A while later, a woman with straight hair and delicate makeup approached his car.