Kaiden could not tell if he should feel angry or sympathetic towards Amelia who had completely believed his words.
Under her puzzled look, he chuckled, "Goodluck." With that said, he turned around and escaped from the scene. It would be wise for him to not interfere.
Oh no!
Amelia was left in an awkward position that she had no other choice but to fight this battle all on her own. It was not possible for her to go after Kaiden when Sawyer was still here.
Just as she was searching an appropriate way to initiate the conversation between the two of them, she heard Sawyer's irresistible voice saying, "Ms. Amelia, please take a seat."
Amelia was stunned. Sawyer had already bypassed her and sat on the leathered sofa.
Sweeping his glance, Simon and Savannah who were both curious on what was going on hurriedly looked away.
Simon lowered his head and said, "Sir, I'm going to bring another tea cup."
Without hesitation, he picked up the broken tea cup before he turned around and left.
Approaching Sawyer, Savannah lowered her voice and asked, "How about Abner?"
Sawyer replied faintly, "Yeah, he can leave now."
"Yes, sir." Receiving the order, Savannah reached out to hold Abner's hand. Before they left, she took a glance at Amelia with her gaze intense. The corner of her mouth twitched unnoticeably as if she had something to say. Eventually, Savannah left without a word as she knew that it was not an appropriate occasion for her to speak.
Amelia did not seem to notice this as she was still racking her brain to initiate the conversation.
She could not help feeling strange. After all, it was not like she had came unprepared. It was as if she lost all her memory the moment when she stood right in front of Sawyer!
She sneaked a peek at Sawyer just to find out that he was staring at her too.
Unlike Amelia, Sawyer did not bother to hide the fact that he was watching her. Seeing that she glanced at him, again he gestured her to sit down.
Lifting all her courage, Amelia walked over and sat down warily.
This time she seemed to learn from lesson. She had purposely picked the seat which was furthest away from Sawyer. She could only pray that her action would not disgust him again.
Watching every move of her, Sawyer could not help frowning. He wondered if he was in fact this scary.
Amelia had already begun her speech, "Mr. Quartley, I've only known two Quartleys in my life. It is such a coincidence that I happen to know your father too. Oh, you have to forgive me that I have to call out his name now. His name's Ryan. Mr. Ryan Quartley."
"As for him, I'm more than honored to receive a bottle of wine from his Dream collection as a gift from him. Not only that, I'm fortunate enough to have one climbing experience with him at Mount Logan. Anyway, I'm probably just an unimportant person to him. I'm afraid that he had never mentioned me to you, had he?"
Sawyer was not move by her speech. In fact, he nodded expressionlessly and said, "My father hadn't mentioned you to me before."
The smile at the corner of her mouth faded. Amelia could feel her cheek burning in embarrassment.
Followingly, Sawyer added coldly, "And I have not contacted with my father for several years."
Amelia was stunned by this new information as if she had just struck by a lightning. Sawyer sounded as if Ryan was a mere estranged father to him. If that was the case, then Amelia had made a wrong move to bring up Ryan in front of Sawyer!
Squinting, Sawyer fired back the question, "So can I understand this as Ms. Amelia is close with my father?"
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