Chapter 494 Curious About The Face Under The Mask
The pungent smell of alcohol sat on the tip of Nina''s nose and made her grit her teeth as her knuckles
cracked, clenching her fists.
"Sean!"
"I''m here," John casually responded and made way for her, pretending not to see anything.
"Sean, I''m not done with you." Nina nced at him.
If it weren''t for theplicated scenario they were in, she would have thrown him out without any
hesitation.
John said gently, "Okay." Nina looked at him in surprise and thought, ''What kind of answer is this?
Did he not realize I was threatening him? He''s just standing there so calmly.
Is he trying to provoke me?''
Nina couldn''t let this go lightly. She thought that she had to teach him a lesson, or he''d never take her
seriously.
"Sean, let''s fight again."
"No, thanks. You''re going to lose anyway."
Nina gritted her teeth and said, "You''re so arrogant."
"I did beat youst time, right?"
Nina realized that Sean had an incredible talent for pissing her off. She felt a little embarrassed and
forced a smile at him.
"You''re just so awesome. Do you have a girlfriend?"
After a pause, John replied, "No."
"I thought as much. After all, who would be stupid enough to like an annoying person like you?" Nina
sarcastically smiled at him and as soon as she turned her face away, it fell into an expression of pure
disgust.
In Nina''s eyes,
he probably couldn''t find a girlfriend because he was so mean. John was speechless.
A thought crossed his mind. ''Is my little girl calling herself stupid?''
Nina walked away, leaving John behind. This sense of aplishment spurred her on. She was so
proud that she gained a round back on John.
At lunch time, Cali and John sat at the same table as Nina, with the two of them opposite her.
Cali stared at the dishesid out before her. Even if she saved her money for more than half a year,
she still wouldn''t have been able to afford this. Never in a million years would she have believed that
she would be eating with the princess. To say she was nervous was an understatement.
Her ears turned red, now that she was sitting beside the man she secretly liked.
"Your Highness, how about I serve you and Sean for lunch?" Cali stood up uneasily.
"Don''t worry about that." Nina smiled.
Her smile was not only gentle, but also noble and elegant. That only amped up Cali''s feeling that she
didn''t deserve to be having lunch with the princess. She said more firmly, "I''d better serve you."
When Nina saw that Cali had pushed the chair under the table, she frowned as she ordered, "Sit
down."
Cali''s heart jolted and she gave in instantly. She frantically pulled out her chair and sat back down.
She sat upright like a primary school student, with her hands crossed on the table.
Nina sighed helplessly on the inside. Sure enough, she had to use force to coax this girl.
"Let''s eat," Nina ordered in amanding tone again.
Cali picked up the chopsticks obediently, only to see that her hand wouldn''t stop shaking. She quickly
grabbed it with her other hand to stop the trembling. She had to be really careful not to bump any
tableware over. If anything broke, she definitely couldn''t afford it.
She swallowed and saw from the corner of her eye that Sean hadn''t even touched his chopsticks yet.
She set hers down and turned her head to ask, "Sean, why don''t you eat? Is it inconvenient?"
Nina looked up and realized something. Since he was wearing a mask, he was unable to eat. "Just
take off the mask. No matter what is underneath, we won''t judge you."
"Yes. Sean, take off your mask." Cali looked at him obsessively. Someone once said that Sean was a
mute, but in actuality he just didn''t like talking a lot.
Since that was a misunderstanding, Cali hoped that maybe the rumors of his scars were also false.
Maybe there was a handsome face under the mask.
Even if he was not, it didn''t matter. Cali admired him regardless.
When John lifted his hand to touch the mask, Nina also raised her eyes curiously.
Vicente said that Sean was a dominating figure and he had a pair of charming eyes. Nina was
therefore naturally interested to see what he looked like.
Both of them couldn''t wait to see his face. John knew it was not the right time though.
He lowered his hand and said, "I''m not hungry."
A visible sense of loss shed through Cali''s eyes, while Nina managed to hide her grief. She thought
that she concealed it without a trace, but the fleeting loss was caught by the man who had loved her for
such a long time.
A smile appeared on his face.
"Then you can just watch," Nina said tauntingly. "Even though you won''t eat, I''ll tell the kitchen to leave
your food here."
"Thank you." Pretending not to know what Nina was up to, John watched the two of them having lunch.
He had breakfast this morning, so he wasn''t starving. He looked at Nina''s pink lips and wanted to kiss
her.
While the children and Nina were taking a nap in their room, the growling in his stomach was too much
to handle. John went to the kitchen and reheated his lunch.
On the way back to his room, he happened to bump into Nina in the hallway.
"What a coincidence!" Nina looked at the tray in John''s hand and smirked. The food was covered by a
round silver lid. She didn''t know what was inside, but she could smell the aroma of fish from afar.
A trace of embarrassment shed across his eyes as he had just been caught in the act.
"Yes! What a coincidence!" He felt like he just shot himself in the foot and he had no choice but to
awkwardly walk past her.
Nina watched as John hurriedly walked into his room and shut the door behind him.
She stood there and chuckled for a while.
At dinner, he still refused to take off his mask to eat. However, he had learned his lesson and he wasn''t
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going to try and get something from the kitchenter.
The next noon, nothing changed. John sat at the table and watched the two of them eat. From the
corner of her eye, Nina nced at him from time to time, smiling cheekily just like yesterday
Under the mask, John held his steely indifferent expression as always.
He didn''t have supperst night and didn''t have lunch today. He was so hungry that he seemed to
hunch over, holding his body as if it was eating him from the inside. He nned to sneak into the
kitchen during their lunch break.
But this time, he went through the kitchen only to find nothing in the fridge.
The moment he closed the door of the fridge, he knew that Nina was behind this and ying some kind
of trick on him. She probably told the servants to empty the fridge.
John had no choice but to amble back to his room and fall asleep in his famished daze. Nina happily
yed with Van and Don in the study for the whole afternoon while John suffered.
Atst, John was awakened by a knock on the door.
"Sean, it''s time for dinner."
It was not until then that John realized that he had been lying in the bed for the whole afternoon. When
he went to the dining table, he saw Van and Don lying on a small portable bed while Nina yed with
them.
"Okay. Serve the dishes." Hearing the footsteps, Nina knew who it was, so she ordered the servants to
bring the food.
The dinner was extraordinarily grand, making John''s mouth water more than usual. He knew that Nina
was trying her best to tempt him into taking off the mask.
Nina blinked and said kindly, "Sean, don''t you want to have some food tonight? Won''t you be hungry?"
"Yes, Sean, please take off your mask and eat something. I promise I will keep my head down and I
won''t look at you." Knowing that Nina had been ying tricks on Sean these past few days, Cali was
getting worried to death.
John looked into Nina''s eyes and said nkly, "Okay."
"Are you finally willing to take off your mask?" Nina was not surprised, as if she knew he''d give in
sooner orter.
"Yes." John raised his hand and was about to take off his mask.
Cali lowered her head, trying to keep to her word, but she couldn''t help slyly ncing at him out of pure
intrigue. Nina stared at him intently, watching his every movement.
She was so curious about the face under the mask.