Chapter 466 Le''s Badgering (Part One)
"Mom..." Burke started speaking, intending to defend Le, but he suddenly could not find the words to
do so. The shameless girl his mother was talking about now seemed like aplete stranger to him, a
far cry from Le, whom he had known and loved for many years.
With a frown, he fell deep into confusion.
"Look, I was there and I know Le is not the right girl for you. I''ve seen right through her character.
What she seeks is not happiness but aplete change in her lifestyle. She wants to take advantage
of her marriage to raise her social status and move into the upper ss. I am telling you very clearly,
Burke, your father and I will never allow such a money-worshiping and hypocritical girl to marry into our
family," Madeline warned her son firmly. "A man should know the difference between good and bad
girls. It doesn''t matter even if the girl you want to marry is neither rich nor good-looking, but she must
have a good character, I hope you understand," she pointed out earnestly.
Burke was duped by Le all these years and blinded by her appearance. He could not see her true
colors. As his mother, Madeline had the responsibility to bring the reality and truth to light.
"Oh, all right, I understand what you are trying to convey," Burke replied, and made a movement
indicating his growing impatience. In fact, he already did realize that Le and he would never be
together as she declined his marriage proposalst night so whatever his mother just said cemented
this fact.
"I''m sorry, Mom," he apologized immediately in a low voice as he grew aware of his rude tone. "You
may rest assured that I will never be in any form of contact with her from now on," he continued. "But,
about Pam, for the time being I can only treat her like a little sister just as before. It is too soon to
jump into something new. Please don''t push me into it."
"Good, I won''t hurry you into anything you don''t want to do, I promise." A relieved and calm smile
appeared on Madeline''s face. "As long as you stop dating Le," she added, looking gratefully at her
son.
"Okay, you have my word." Burke gave his mother a slight nod as he made the vow. "If that is all then
I''m going to work now."
"Wait a minute," Madeline called to her son, who had started to walk towards the door. "Our family
business is getting busier and busier by the day. Your father and I are getting a little overwhelmed with
the increasing burden. Keep that in mind. Consider quitting your job ande back to take over
portion of the business, please."
"Hmm... Well, I''ll think about it," Burke replied tly.
Before he left home, he said goodbye to Pam in a soft tone. From the way Pam looked at him,
Burke could sense her growing affection for him was no longer the brother-sister feeling that she had
felt as a child, but unexpectedly he didn''t mind it.
It had just been a few moments since Burke had reached his office when there was a knock on the
door. "Come in!" he cried out, as he was hurrying to put on his white coat with his back to the door.
He then heard the person outsidee in. "Please take a seat. I''ll be ready in just a minute," he added
as he was working on the uniform, without turning back.
"Burke..." The person then called out his name in a muffled voice. It was Le, he could tell her voice
apart in a crowd, and she sounded ill.
Burke froze almost instantly. "What are you doing here?" he asked coldly, still not turning around as he
feared confronting her.
"I..." Le gasped for breath and then she fell to the ground as she tried to answer.
Burke immediately rushed to pull Le back to her feet, and found that she was flushed, which was a
clear symptom of high fever. Fortunately, they were in the hospital. After timely infusion for a while, she
looked much better.
Burke sat by Le''s bedside during hera, and stared at her with an unreadable look.
"Burke... " Le gradually woke up as she felt stronger. When she saw Burke, her eyes glistened with
hope. "You''re here!"
"You have a temperature as high as 39 degrees?centigrade. Now you need rest quietly. Please don''t
talk," Burke eximed tly, and poured her a ss of water.
"No, there is something I must tell you at once. It simply cannot wait anymore," Le cried and
suddenly grabbed Burke''s hand. At this point she just wanted Burke toe back to her, and Charles
was already in the past.
Burke withdrew his hand instinctively in an indifferent fashion. "We cleared this outst night. Now,
you''re the patient, and I''m the doctor, and there is no other rtionship between us. We have nothing
to talk about now or ever."
"No, listen to me, please. I am requesting you with all my heart." Le looked at Burke ardently.
Madeline''s words, however, kept echoing in Burke''s mind, a constant reminder of how maniptive
and conniving Le was. Unwilling to talk to Le, he stood up to leave. "Take some good rest. I have
to get back to work now."
"Burke!" Seeing Burkeunching off his seat to go, Le quickly rolled out of bed,pletely ignoring
her infusion. Burke stopped her in her tracks immediately. "Are you crazy? I just told you that you have
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a temperature of 39 degrees?centigrade!" he scolded to drive some sense into her stubborn brain.
"I know you don''t want to talk to me, let alone see me right now, but..." Le lowered her head as she
wore a pathetic and dejected expression. "Burke, I really didn''t mean to refuse your proposal the way I
didst night. I want to exin..."
"Enough is enough!" Burke interrupted, and cast her an angry nce indicating her to stop that instant.
"You''ve embarrassed me enoughst night, don''t drag this matter any further. So don''t rub salt onto my
wound. I know very well that feelings need to be mutual. Since you won''t marry me, I will never force
you to. The matter ends there."
Le was rendered speechless as she nkly stared at Burke, who had suddenly given her the cold
shoulder. She wondered if Madeline had spoken ill of her to him which brought upon this cold behavior.
"Burke," Le inquired tentatively,"did Mrs. Zhou say something about me to you?"
"Well, what do you think?" Burke shot back in an icy tone, with no thoughts of answering her.
"Let me exin," Le defended immediately. "I know how nice and kind you are to me, Burke, but I
feel so stressed. I turned you downst night because I didn''t know if I could marry you right now as I
simply wanted us to spend more time together to get to know each other better. I didn''t mean anything
else by my reaction."
"Oh really?" Burke smirked. "So you mean to say that now you are willing to marry me now, right?"
Le blushed on purpose, to heighten his senses, but it suddenly urred to her that she was ill and
her face was already red. She then bowed her head and pretended to be shy. "I actually thought about
it for a long time when I got back homest night. I thought my answer yesterday was rushed. And in
retrospect, I now know that I''d love to marry you, Burke. Do you still have the diamond ring? Will you
please put it on me?"
Le forced herself to look at Burke and nervously waited for his answer, while Burke stared at her, his
face expressionless.
As the minutes went by, Le grew more flustered and anxious and she could almost hear her heart
beating fast.
After a good while, Burke finally opened his mouth. "Le, you changed your mind and epted my
proposal because you found out about my pedigree, didn''t you?"
"What? I don''t know what you are talking about." Le pretended like she didn''t know what he was
referring to. "Your pedigree? You''re just a doctor, aren''t you? That''s all I know as that''s all important."
"Stop pretending!"Burke snapped and suddenly realized that Le was not the girl he thought she was.
He became extremely sober and rational as he saw through her poor acting in a second.
His infatuation with her had evaporated in an instant, and he could not understand why he believed and
fell in love with her in the face of her clumsy deception.