Adrian was straightforward and cut to the point, but Aleigha could tell that he was drunk, 'He is already drunk at noon?'
'Does he forget the ceremony tonight?'
"Where?" Aleigha sat up, and the drowsiness already left her. She felt it senseless to lose her temper before a drunk.
"No. 6 of Sunset Street," Then, Adrian hung up the phone without hesitation.
Aleigha got changed and put on simple make-up. Before leaving the room, she saw the gift box where the cheongsam was.
After pondering a moment, she decided to take the box with her.
She was afraid that Lainey and Emilia would do something bad to her cheongsam during her absence.
She asked the chauffeur to drive her to Sunset Street. Then, she got off the car and walked to No.6 with the box, and the chauffeur drove home.
Only then did Aleigha realize that this was a coffee shop.
Upon her entrance, she saw Adrian sitting by the
window.
Adrian must drink a lot, as his face was a little red. Now, he was staring outside of the window absent-mindedly.
Aleigha walked up to him and sat opposite him.
"Tonight, I'll cancel the engagement with the Gardner family. Aleigha, marry me."
Then, Adrian pushed an exquisite jewelry box on the table to Aleigha.
Looking at the jewelry box, Aleigha did not reach out her hand.
Out of question, she knew what was inside, a ring. "Adrian, I am not your good match." Aleigha felt complex. If this happened in her life, Aliegha should have shed tears of happiness now.
How much the love was, and how eager the expectation was.
But now, there was nothing else she could feel but helpless.
"Why don't you accept it? Who said so? In my eyes, no woman in the world is a better match for me than you."
I don't want anyone except you."
Aleigha pursed her lips and looked at him silently.
Adrian looked directly at her eyeballs, but there were no emotions in her eyes, "Aleigha, what's your reason?"
"I don't mind you past."
"I am OK with your family background. What's your reason to refuse me?"
Reason?
Aleigha thought for a moment. 'Perhaps it is you, Adrian.'
She couldn't forget the way Adrian looked at her in her last life, including disgust, detestation, and mockery.
She remembered every emotion in his eyes.
Now Adrian changed, which confused Aleigha. She once thought Adrian loved Aubrie only.
His chase after Aleigha herself was out of his pride.
"No reason. I am still too young to think about marriage yet."
"Later, maybe, but not now."
Aleigha found an excuse, that was not good but very practical.
"Keep that thing. I can wait until you grow up and promise me." This was the first time Adrian made a compromise.
He couldn't be tough in front of the woman he
loved.
"It is valuable. When you regret it, should I send it back to you?"
"So, no, you take it away."
Aleigha had a clear estimation of herself, and it was possible that Adrian would regret it.
"Just take it. I won't regret it, and this has never happened to me, hasn't it?"
Aleigha shifted glances at him and then at the jewelry box. She still felt it wrong to keep the ring.
Aleigha remained unmoved, and Adrian took out the ring from the box, grabbed Aleigha's hand, and put the ring onto her finger.
This move was domineering, which was Adrian's style.
Aleigha was stunned by the rudeness of Adrian. Then, she stared at the big diamond on the ring.
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