Kenneth's eyes narrowed as he stared at Mike. “Chat group? What chat group?”
Um...
“Is that not it?” Mike asked.
“You haven't answered my question. What group are you talking about?” Kenneth demanded.
Crap! I exposed myself!
Mike shook his head immediately. “It's nothing. There's no such chat group at all.”
Kenneth looked calm as he gave Mike the side-eye. “Do you want to wait for me to find out, or do you prefer to confess?”
Intimidated by Kenneth's ultimatum, Mike relented immediately. “I'll confess.”
“Spit it out.”
“When you brought Natasha back to the base, someone took pictures of you and shared them in the group chat of the base,” Mike mumbled.
“And then?”
“When everyone started to gossip about it, I gave them some color,” Mike continued.
“What sort of color?”
“Um, not much, other than the fact that Natasha is your fiancée. That's all!”
“Is that so?” Kenneth asked skeptically, to which Mike nodded.
“It's true!”
Thereafter, Kenneth held out his hand. “Show me your phone.”
Um...
Mike retrieved his phone from his pocket and contemplated on whether to hand it over.
Just as he was about to put it in Kenneth's hand, he asked, “Is it really necessary?”
The more he refused to show it, the more Kenneth wanted to see it.
Kenneth grabbed the phone but quickly realized it was password locked.
“What's the password?” he demanded.
“Um...” Mike was still undecided on whether to come clean.
“Have you forgotten it?” Kenneth looked up at him.
Mike answered at once, “For some weird reason, I just can't recall.”
“Nat, can you hack this phone? I don't think it's going to be difficult,” Kenneth said.
“It's a piece of cake!” Natasha played along cheekily.
The very next second, Mike came forward and took his phone back.
With Kenneth staring at him, Mike said, “I'll confess.”
“I'm not interested in what you have to say now. I want to see it,” Kenneth insisted.
“Kenneth...”
“Are you going to do it or shall I?”
Caving to the pressure, Mike unlocked his phone and handed it over.
Kenneth tapped on the chat group and scrolled through it. The smile on his face faded away once he read what Mike had written.
The change in his expression caused Mike to smile sheepishly. “Kenneth, I was telling the truth, right?”
Kenneth put the phone away before staring at him. “Mike, now that you're all grown up, you're getting more brazen by the day.”
The moment Kenneth got to his feet terrified Mike so much that he hid behind Natasha's back.
“Help me, Natasha!”
Kenneth glared at him. “How dare you try and hide still?”
Paying no heed to Kenneth's threats, Mike gave Natasha a pleading look. “Natasha, if you don't step in, Kenneth will really beat me up!”
“You deserve it for being such a blabbermouth!”
“Natasha!” Mike begged.
After a quick consideration, Natasha turned to Kenneth. “To be honest, he is telling the truth. There's nothing wrong with what he said.”
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