The young woman at the side could not do anything but stare at the gentlemanly man.
Moreover, the two were like a match made in heaven—the man was noble, and the woman was beautiful. They looked as if they had walked out of a painting, and no one could pry their eyes away from the couple.
After closing the door, Kenneth turned around and quietly said, “Sorry, please move aside.”
The young woman snapped back to her senses and quickly took a step back. Kenneth did not even spare her another glance before he walked over to the other side of the car to get to the driver's seat and drove off.
There was no hesitation on his end at all.
Natasha sat in the front passenger seat and watched the young woman's figure get smaller and smaller. She noticed that even after Kenneth drove far from the office, the young woman remained rooted to her spot.
Natasha finally looked away and fixed her gaze on Kenneth instead. “She looks upset.”
Kenneth, however, smiled and dismissively said, “How can she be upset if she hasn't invested any feelings in this?”
Right. This is how he is when he's ruthless.
For a brief moment, Natasha could see what he was like when they first met.
That thought made her feel a little irked, and she could not stop herself from saying, “Kenneth, the girl mustered the courage to ask for your contact details, but you didn't even bother looking at her for more than a second. Cruel.”
Kenneth's eyes flicked toward her. “What's the matter? Are you unhappy with the way I dealt with it?”
Natasha narrowed her eyes. “No. I'm just pointing it out.”
“Natasha, do you realize what this is? She's competing for a man with you. It's one thing for you not to step forward and claim that he's yours, but you're even standing so far away, looking like you're about to enjoy the show. I can dismiss all of these, but shouldn't you show a little jealousy and fight with me a little now?” Kenneth asked. Otherwise, I would feel like a failure of a man!
Natasha blinked before saying, “We're all women. Why should we make life difficult for each other?”
“You're big-hearted, aren't you?”
“Moreover, is there a point for me to assert dominance? Thea kept asserting her dominance over you around me, but you're still with me,” Natasha said as she looked at him. Although the look in her eyes was an indifferent one, there was something alluring about it.
It was almost as if she was the hunter instead of the hunted.
Just as Kenneth was about to reply to her, Natasha continued, “Also, it's men. If this one doesn’t work, there's always the next. In fact, the next might be better.” Natasha's eyes were crescent from her glee, and it was clear that she was teasing him.
Kenneth was at a loss for words at that.
After a moment of contemplation, he said, “So you're letting someone else steal your man away?”
“She's not stealing, is she?”
Kenneth sneered, “Putting aside the fact that I always wait for you by the entrance of your office and whether or not she has seen me before, what happened between us is all over the news. Can she not know about it? Moreover, even if she has just arrived in this place and doesn't use the internet to read up on gossip news like this, it's the time when people get off work. How can she not know who a man is waiting for at a time like this?”
“Huh?” Now, it was Natasha's turn to be at a loss for words. She never thought that Kenneth would think so deeply into it.
Right then, Kenneth turned to look at her and quietly said, “Natasha, I'm afraid you're the only one with such a big heart when it comes to love.”
Natasha pursed her lips for a while before replying, “I don't have a big heart. I'm just worried that you'll hurt an innocent girl.”
“Innocent?” Kenneth raised a brow as a glint flashed past his eyes. He then continued, “Maybe. At least she'll understand how a man loves a woman from now on.”
“Which is?”
“He sees no one else in front of him,” Kenneth enunciated. That was what he wanted to make clear to her from the very start.
Kenneth gazed at her with his oceanlike eyes, and the sight of them made time seem to stand still for Natasha.
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