Tiffany obviously kept those thoughts to herself. “I’m not curious. Instead, I’m asking for my own sake. Isn’t it quite frustrating to have an unsettled issue? After thinking about it for a long time, I still couldn’t understand why you approached me in the first place. It’s quite peculiar. I’m also aware that rich people only spend time with people who are as rich and influential as them. It’s because they hold the same status, and they could benefit from that kind of relationship. We do not belong to the same world. I was rich once, so I understand the logic behind it. As we know, everything happens for a reason…”
Alejandro was quiet for a short while at the other end of the phone. “When the flower blossoms, I’ll tell you about it.”
She inwardly exclaimed, ‘It’s the flower again! Who knows whether it’ll blossom or not? What if it’s only some kind of grass? Is he trying to fool me?’
She started to grit her teeth. “You said that you’ll tell me a secret when the flower blossoms. Now, you claim that you’ll tell me why you approached me in the first place when the flower blossoms. If you’re reluctant to tell me the truth, just be frank with me. Why do you have to make a fool of me? If you gave me a nonflowering plant, do you expect me to wait for it to bloom eagerly every day? That’s enough! I don’t want to ask you about it anymore. Bye!”
Before she could hang up her phone, Alejandro shouted all of a sudden, “Tiffany!”
She waited silently, waiting for him to continue talking. Unexpectedly, he joked with her, “If I’m not wrong, you just gritted your teeth…”
She felt like she was being fooled again. She thought that he had decided to tell her the truth since he sounded rather nervous. However…
It was true indeed. He was Alejandro Smith, an influential and powerful man from Ayashe. She would easily gain any information about him just by surfing the internet. She had never met him before. What was she thinking about now? What if his taste in food resembled hers coincidently? Although it appeared quite far-fetched, she did not have any other plausible explanation for that now.
She heaved a sigh of relief. She then forced herself to abandon those strange feelings. “I… I wasn’t thinking about anything. It’s just a simple guess. I thought that you might have met me before, but I don’t know if you… Let’s forget about it since you’re unwilling to bring it up. I won’t ask you anymore. Just tell me when you feel like it. I’m gonna hang up now. I’ll go and take a bath.”
After the bath, she wrapped herself in a towel and went toward the kitchen. She kept the mask cold in the small refrigerator in the kitchen. Although it was spring now, it was still cold at night. But her light footsteps soon faltered the minute she saw Jackson there. She was shocked. “What the hell… are you doing in my home?”
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