Chapter 278
ric was extremely tall, and he was practically just inches away from Victoria, so
Victoria could feel his icy yet strong aura envelope her. Her instincts told her to step
back and keep her distance from him. Unfortunately, she tripped on something as she
tried to step back, and she toppled backward until ric reached out and wrapped an
arm around her waist. He pulled her toward himself, and she felt his strength tugging
her in his direction.
Victoria’s fragrant scent shot up ric’s nose as her body pressed against his chest. As
he felt her frail figure against his body and her soft and supple skin against his hands,
he tugged his lips into a slight smirk. “Are you that nervous to see me?” he uttered as he
raised an eyebrow to eye her yfully.
Victoria immediately pushed him away once she regained her footing. “Let go of me.”
However, the arm around her waist was like a steel mp, and she couldn’t seem to
push him away no matter how hard she tried. He was like a mountain that she couldn’t
move. When the waiter saw this entire scene, he widened his eyes with amusement
and curiosity as he took a few steps back. “Since we know each other, you can just
share the table with me. You don’t have to go back downstairs.” ric led her to his
table, his arm still around her waist.
“What makes you think I’d want to share a table with you? Let go of me!” Victoria was
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still trying to resist him as she shot him a fierce re. “Also, what are you doing here?
Are you stalking me?”
“Do I look like a stalker?” ric curled his lips into a smirk. “Why don’t you ask this
waiter over here, Victoria? Ask him what time we arrived,” he uttered. Victoria froze
upon hearing him. I assumed that ric was stalking me and pestering me, but I
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Terrance took this chance to stand up and greet Victoria. “What a coincidence, Miss
Selwyn. Are you here for a meal? It’s prettyte in the afternoon now–why are you only
eating lunch at this hour? You must’ve been really upied. Well, since we bumped
into each other, I guess fate must be telling us to have a meal together. Why don’t you
sit with us?” he asked.
“It’s fine.” Victoria rejected him without any hesitation. “I’m not going to eat with you
guys.” “Are you saying that you won’t eat with us even though we’ve invested in your
Victoria was speechless for a while. She bit her bottom lip as she stared at the man
who still had his arm around her waist. “Are you threatening me right now?”
ric raised an eyebrow at her. “Well, it is whatever you think it is.”
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“Fine.” Victoria smiled. “You can retract your investments, then. Do you think I’m afraid
of that?”
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The smile on ric’s face faded away as he heard the woman’s words. “Do you think I
won’t do that?”
“Yeah. I’m not the one who put so much effort into all of this. What do you think?” she
replied.
Terrance could sense the conversation turning sour, so he quickly ordered the waiter to
serve some food. “The three of us will share a table. Bring us some of your signature
dishes, please. Hurry up.” The waiter gradually made sense of the three people’s
rtionship with one another as he listened to their conversation. They seem to know
each other, but it also seems like they don’t get along too well. Well, everything’s fine as
long as they know each other. The waiter nodded and went down to prepare the food
after that.
After the waiter left, Victoria shot ric with an icy re. “Let go of me.” Terrance went
over as ric continued to hold onto the woman. “Oh, Mr. Cadogan and Miss Selwyn,
why don’t you guys calm down a little? Since we’re all here, let’s just have a meal
together.” Terrance tried to pull ric’s arm away from the woman, and ric
immediately furrowed his brows. However, after hearing Terrance’s whispers for him to
let go, ric eventually loosened his grip on the woman.
After ric let go of Victoria, Victoria found a lot more freedom in her movements, and
she hastily took a few steps back to keep her distance from ric. ric continued to
stare at her intently. “Well, why don’t we sit together, Miss Selwyn? Let’s all be a little
more pleasant with each other, shall we?” Terrance said.
Victoria stared at Terrance, who had always been polite to her. She couldn’t bring
herself to say something mean to him, so she tried exining herself instead. “It’s fine.
I’m supposed to meet someone else.”
“Who?” ric asked.
“Is that any of your business?” she snapped in return.
“Is it a man?”
“Why do you care?” she asked again. Even though ric knew whom she was meeting,
he couldn’t contain the jealousy that he felt in him. Terrance could feel sweat forming
on his forehead as he listened to their conversation. What is Mr. Cadogan trying to do?
He said that he wanted things to be pleasant and amicable, but now that they’re
face–to–face with each other… Terrance took another nce at Victoria. Well, she’s
being really resistant, and she looked like she wanted to leave without even talking to
us earlier. I’d probably lose my cool if I was Mr. Cadogan, he thought.
“Are you meeting Bane?” ric asked with a scoff. Deep down, he was curious to know
if Victoria would have gone out with Bane if he hadn’t used his identity as Silent Night
to force her out on a date. Victoria had no intention of telling them whom she was
meeting, but she let out a cold scoff when she saw the look on ric’s face. “Yeah. I’m
meeting him for lunch, and we’re going to go look at carster in the afternoon. I’ll leave
now if that’s all you have to say,” she uttered.
Then, Victoria walked off while pulling her phone out to act as if she was calling Bane.
Right then, ric reached out and grabbed her wrist before she could walk past him.
“Let go of me!” she hissed.
“You’d like to take a look at cars, huh? I’ll go with you.” With his grip firm on her wrist, he
tugged her down the stairs, and Terrance was left on his own. He was dumbfounded
and only returned to his senses when they had reached the bottom of the stairs. “Are
we not going to have a meal first, Mr. Cadogan?” However, his question came a little too
Terrance stared into space for a while. Fine. I guess I’ll have to taste all the signature
dishes on my own. Terrance knew that he wouldn’t be able to finish all the dishes, so he
phoned a few of his other friends in Jasea to drop by.
After dragging Victoria down the stairs, ric forced her into his car and held onto both.
her hands as he ordered his driver to start driving. The driver had no idea what was
going on, but he figured that it wouldn’t be appropriate for him to ask any questions, so
he simply started driving. Victoria continued to wrestle against the man after they got
into the car. “Let go of me! I came here today because I had other matters to handle!”
Victoria couldn’t believe her bad luck. How did we bump into each other here? Is this
really a coincidence? Did we really end up choosing the same spot? Now that he’s
taking me away, what am I going to do when Silent Night asks me for cash again?
“Oh,” ric replied tly. “What matters do you have to handle?”
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“It’s none of your business.” Victoria didn’t want to tell ric anything about herself,
especially when it had to do with her kids.
“None of my business, huh?” ric chuckled. “Well, since you don’t want to tell me
about it, I’m sure it’s not that important. Let’s go take a look at cars first, then.”
“ric!” Victoria shouted his name in exasperation. The rage in her gaze made her
seem like she could kill anyone sheid eyes on. “We cut all ties about five years ago. I
only went to Gandra with you recently because of the exchanges made between you,
Grandma, and me. We shouldn’t be rted to each other now that all of that is over.
Who are you to continue pestering me like this? Who are you to stick your nose into my
business? Don’t you have tons of girls around you, including udia?” she hissed