Chester knew he overstepped his boundaries. He dropped his head and sighed helplessly before looking up at Corinne with passion in his eyes.
"Corinne, if… And I mean if…one day you became single again, would you consider—"
"By the way, Chester, how do you feel about Francine?" interrupted Corinne with a smile. She knew what he wanted to say, so she cut him off.
"What… What do you mean?" asked Chester, flustered.
Corinne smiled. "Let me put it another way. What do you think of her?"
"Well, she's quite okay, I guess… But why are you asking?"
Corinne smiled mysteriously. "That's good enough. It's getting late so I won't keep you anymore. I'm sure Francine has arranged for a car to send you back. It should be waiting at the main entrance."
Corinne's polite but firm way of asking him to leave made it difficult for Chester to say anything else. Thus, he gave her a polite nod and made his way to the entrance.
After watching his retreating figure for a bit, Corinne started making her way back inside. However, the moment she turned around, she saw Francine rushing over angrily toward her.
"Hey, you! What did you and Chester talk about just now?" she asked fiercely.
"Nothing." Corinne was tired. Not to mention, she had to wake up early tomorrow to go to the summer villa, so she was not in the mood to deal with Francine.
Not easily deterred, Francine opened her arms wide to block Corinne from leaving.
"If you don't tell me, I'm going to call Jeremy and tell him you've been secretly meeting with another man behind his back."
The phone rang for quite a good while. Just when the two girls thought no one was going to pick up, the call went through.
However, it was not Jeremy's voice that greeted them but a deep, sexy woman's voice.
"Hello?"
Corinne's pupils shrank a little as she looked at the phone in shock. Francine wanted to prove to Corinne that she dared to make this call, so she had it on speakerphone.
She, too, was dumbfounded when she heard a woman's voice on the other end of the phone. 'Sh*t! Did I just accidentally expose Jeremy's affair?'
"Who are you? Why do you have my brother's phone?" interrogated Francine.
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