Chapter 491
Meanwhile, Leon was displeased with Heather’s words. She was obviously daring him to drink, for her
words reminded him of the humiliation he felt back when he tried to make Heather drunk. In the end, he
was the one who got drunk instead. “One should be seen in a new light after days of separation.” His
“You’ll never drink me under the table.” While holding the bottle of brandy in her hand, Heather directly
sat down across from Leon with a coffee table between them. For some reason, she looked cute while
sitting on the stool, but no matter how cute she looked, no amount of that cuteness could hold out
against the intimidating aura she gave off.
“Get some ice,” Leon said to her.
“It’s cold enough; it’s been in the fridge the whole time.” Heather looked at Leon coldly with a
provocative look in her eyes. As someone who found Heather’s intimidating appearance cute during
such a moment, Leon was a typical example of a person unafraid of death.
“Are you going to drink Louis XII cognac directly like this?” Leon asked while picking up the bottle of
cognac. Upon looking at the bottle, Leon was rendered speechless. This 20-year-old cognac could
potentially kill someone if it’s consumed directly, he thought to himself.
“I’ll drink it myself if you don’t dare to.” Heather looked down on Leon right away and snatched the
cognac from him directly. Thest time she had a good time drinking was the time she had a drink with
Matthias, whom she lost to when it came to drinking. Come to think of it, it wasughable that Heather,
who had apetitive streak, lost to Matthias in many aspects.
Leon braced himself and looked at Heather. Seeing how thin and frail she looked, he snatched her
ss in resignation. “Since you want to, let’s just drink together.” There was nothing that Leon wasn’t
afraid of doing. Furthermore, he was unwilling to be looked down upon by Heather.
Heather’s mouth curved into a meaningful smile. She knew that Leon couldn’t stand it whenever she
challenged him to a dare. Moreover, drinking was a pretty good way to vent one’s emotions when they
had a lot on their mind.
In reality, Leon didn’t like drinking with Heather. No one would keep drinking in silence without a word,
and it was rather boring to drink for the sake of getting drunk. At this moment, Heather wore a poker
face without even bothering to say a single word, and this caused Leon to be in no mood for drinking at
all. He wondered who had offended her, though.
“Are you hungry?” Leon evaded the subject. Most of what they ate over dinner had been digested by
now, so they would probably burn their stomachs if they kept on drinking like this. Leon looked at
Heather with a helpless expression while thinking to himself, Sometimes, Heather is even manlier than
a man. Can’t this woman take care of her own health?
“No, I’m not.” Heather’s answer wasn’t surprising at all.
“I’m hungry. I want to order takeout.” Leon picked up his cell phone directly to check if there were any
food delivery options nearby.
“Do you think that there’d be any takeout services in this deste ce?” Heather stopped what she
was doing and looked at Leon as if she was looking at a retard. She was sometimes both amused and
annoyed by Leon, for he was practically incapable of living. Come to think of it, this apartment is indeed
very much out of the way. Leon is such an active person; I wonder if he’ll feel depressed while staying
here.
“Are you sure it’s really fine for you to settle me here, Heather? You’re even telling me that this ce is
deste,” Leon asked in displeasure. Heather had stopped drinking, but the sight of her drinking
cognac like she was downing water caused the corners of his eye to twitch rapidly.
“You can buy some books and read them here. This ce is quiet.” Heather yed with the wine ss
in her hand. Since she had drunk a fair amount of alcohol, even the tips of her brows were tinged with
charm.
Leon even felt his throat burning as Heather’s seductively charming face swam before his eyes. He
gawked at her face; it was within his reach, but he felt that it was as far away from him as the remotest
corner on earth. As his outstretched hand froze in midair, he gave a smile of resignation. “Reading?
Just give me a break.” He knew without thinking what kind of books Heather would rmend him,
and he had no interest in reading them at all.
“What about your takeout?” Heather raised her eyebrows at Leon. She smelled strongly of alcohol, but
she also gave off an inexplicably alluring scent.
Thinking that he had gotten somewhat drunk, Leon pped his head. He wondered why Heather
looked so pretty before his eyes, for the sight of her devastatingly gorgeous face made him itch
unbearably. “I’ll just cook something on my own.” As he tried to conceal his innermost thoughts, he
shook his head while looking at Heather with a disdainful expression.
“No! We’ll be victims of food poisoning,” Heather objected as she recalled the pasta Leon had made for
her back then. The pasta tasted so awful that she wondered how someone could be such a terrible
cook. At that time, she thought that Leon was deliberately ying a prank on her. It never urred to
her how hard Leon had worked to make the te of pasta, but the pasta tasted so awful that it almost
made her cry.
“Don’t drink on an empty stomach ever again. Do you want to have a perforated stomach?” Leon asked
fiercely while snatching the wine ss from Heather.
Heather stood up and came to Leon’s side directly. As they sat side by side at a close distance from
each other, Leon grew increasingly nervous. Meanwhile, Heather noticed all the subtle changes in his
expression as they were only inches away from each other.
“Sometimes, I don’t even know what on earth I’m doing. Everyone seems to think that I must achieve
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something.” Heather spoke in a childlike tone as her face took on a confused expression.
“You aren’t drunk right now, are you?” Leon was somewhat worried, for he had never seen Heather
behaving this way. He had never thought about how to deal with her when she was drunk.
“No, I’m not.” Heather kept staring at the cognac on the coffee table without ncing at Leon, whereas
all Leon saw was her. “Can I speak my mind to you?” She turned to look at Leon with an innocent look
in her eyes.
“You don’t have to pretend in front of me.” Leon pretended to beposed as he couldn’t wait for
Heather to have a heart-to-heart talk with him.
“I’m at a loss right now, and I don’t know what on earth I’m doing. Can you tell me if you really enjoy
being a businessman?” Heather looked at Leon curiously. However, Leon was so tall that she had to
put in some effort whenever she looked up at him, whereas Leon could easily see her every move.
“Of course not. I want to be a traveler who travels all over the world.” Leon liked to be on the road to
any ce that he was unfamiliar with. In other words, ces that he had never been to attracted him
greatly.
“That’s not a bad idea.” Heather tilted her head to one side in a seemingly cute manner. “I’ve never
thought about what else I can do other than being a businesswoman,” she answered, distressed. She
had never thought about this question, for she thought she was born to be a businesswoman.
“Heather, I’m forced to be a businessman because I have no other options, but nobody is forcing you to
be a businesswoman. Every choice you make at present is of your own free will,” Leonmented
pratingly. Leon sometimes had a sharp tongue, especially when he wanted to divert his attention
from Heather.
“Do you mean that I have apetitive streak?” Heather looked at Leon in displeasure as if she was
unsatisfied with his reply.
“Do you not?” Leon looked at Heather fearlessly as he was unafraid of being killed by the look in her
eyes.
“All right, I have only myself to me.” Heather didn’t want to argue with Leon either since there was
nothing wrong with what he said. She didn’t want to be someone like Matthias, for he deceived himself
as well as others. “In that case, let me ask you a question about rtionships.” She sounded calm, and
it seemed as though she had nothing to do with what she would be talking about.
Leon’s heart skipped a beat. As he stared at Heather’s good-looking features, he didn’t want her to
worry about rtionship problems, nor did he want her to be heartbroken for the sake of another man.
“You know that I always keep a yful attitude toward life. I can’t give you any good answers if you ask
me questions about rtionships,” he replied frivolously since he was uninterested in discussing
rtionship problems with Heather.
“If someone keeps saying that his first love is his only glimmer of hope over all these years and that it
was precisely because of his first love that he was strong-willed enough to pull through and undergo a
Leon looked at Heather in bewilderment, for he didn’t understand what she was talking about. For
some reason, he felt that she sounded rather weird.
“In that case, do you believe that this man really loves his first love? Does he love her, or is he just
obsessing over her?” Heather narrowed her eyes. The alcohol had gone into her head, but she was still
sober. Nheless, there were many things that she couldn’t help but want to say.
“He loves her, I guess. Don’t people say that love will make someone better?” Leon furrowed his brows.
He then thought to himself, Could that man be Locke Group’s president? Is Heather his first love that
she’s talking about?
Heather looked at Leon thoughtfully, for she felt that his answer was somewhat perfunctory. “Are you
sure about that? If he really loves his first love, why didn’t hee to her earlier? Why would he wait
for many years until his first love found her Mr. Right?”
Upon hearing Heather’s words, Leon got even more confused. He thought that Heather was the first
love she was talking about, but judging from her words, she couldn’t possibly be the first love. If that
was the case, why would Heather ask such a question? “He probably feels inferior and thinks that he
isn’t worthy of his first love, so he worked hard for many years to present himself before her in the best
way possible. Men are too proud at times, and they always want to give the woman they love nothing
but the best.”
Unbeknownst to Leon, his answer happened to coincide with Matthias’s. The puzzlement in Heather’s
eyes grew. Could I have really misunderstood Matthias’s feelings for Myra?
“He never seeked his first love for so many years. Shouldn’t he worry that his first love would be
together with someone else? That happens to be the case, you see. His first love fell in love with
somebody else, and he’s destined to remain single.” The look on her face turned serious. This time,
she didn’t feel drunk at all; on the contrary, she couldn’t believe that she was wrong.
“This is possible if a man firmly believes that his first love will stay faithful to him and keep waiting with
her original desires unchanged. This can only prove that the man is rather conceited and bumptious, so
he ended up with a p in the face by reality.” Thinking that he might make the same mistake like that
man, Leon rationally analyzed the situation for Heather.
“I will never understand men.” Heather smiled helplessly as she recalled the words she said to Matthias
in a staunchly self-righteous manner. As it turned out, she was the wrong one. Is this the difference
between men and women? She shook her head as she couldn’t find an answer to this question. Could I
be wrong? Even now, she still couldn’t believe that she was wrong.
“In that case, may I ask you a question?” Leon asked while mimicking Heather.
“No.” Heather gave a sly smile. At this moment, Leon looked silly and yet cute.
Leon looked at Heather with dissatisfaction. Why does she have the audacity to cheat like this? he
thought to himself. He decided to ignore her and asked, “What does the man and his first love have to
do with you? What role are you ying in their story?”
He even has the nerve to ask that question, Heather thought to herself. Her expression had softened at
first, but it froze again because of Leon’s sudden question.