Layla looked at Eric’s reply, dumbfounded.
She felt Eric accommodating and pampering her.
However, she knew what was on his mind.
No matter which man Eric introduced to her, she would not like it.
She put down her phone, trying to calm herself down.
She went into the bathroom and dried her hair with a hairdryer.
While drying her hair, a thought came to her mind that why didn’t she express her feelings directly to Eric and saw how Eric reacted.
Anyway, Eric’s about to retire. When he quitted the circle, he would be an ordinary person, and he could fall in love with whoever he wanted…
After drying her hair, Layla’s head continued to feel hot.
She put away the hair dryer, walked to the bedroom, picked up her phone again, and sent a message to Eric: [How about you being my boyfriend?]
After sending the message, Layla’s fingers were numb. After throwing the phone on the bed, she covered her face with her hands. She couldn’t imagine how Eric would react when he saw the news, let alone how Eric would reply.
“Ah! I’m so dizzy! Will he ignore me again!” Layla, with disheveled hair, paced up and down the room, getting hotter and hotter.
She tied her hair up with a rubber band, then walked carefully to the bed and picked up her phone.
She closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and turned on her phone.
——Eric did not reply to her message.
Layla froze.
What did Eric’s failure to reply mean?
She blushed and continued to send messages: [I’m serious, you don’t have a girlfriend, and I don’t have a boyfriend, let’s try it!]
Layla was not only so direct with Eric, she had been more direct with everyone and everything since she was a child.
If She kept her stuffed up, she would feel like she’s going to explode.
Layla: [Then let me calm down for two days!]
After sending messages with Daisy, Layla clicked on Eric’s dialog box.
She didn’t see his reply in the last second, but in the next second, his reply came: [No…]
Eric said ‘No’.
The rejection was simply forceful.
Layla lay down on the bed, staring at the ceiling in a daze.
It’s so hard!
Getting Eric to agree was one difficulty, getting parents to accept it was another difficulty.
It was like two big mountains were pressing on her body, making her breathless.
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