Steve left, and Isla would like to stop him. However, she said nothing in the end, as there was nothing she could do even if Steve stopped at her request.
'Steve is smart enough to penetrate my thoughts. His intentional avoidance is a refusal.'
Isla didn't push hard, as there was still friendship between them.
Seeing that Steve was drinking alone, Tracey whispered in Adam's ears, "Adam, may I dance with Steve?"
"Go ahead, but only one dance." Adam was clear that Steve was important for Tracey.
"Thank you, Adam." With a smile, Tracey withdrew from his arms. She walked toward Steve with her dress pulled up a little.
"Handsome Prince, may I dance with you?" Tracey teased. Steve met Tracey's smiling eyes on his turning around.
"Since you are sincere, I will grant you this honor." Steve also joked and put his hand in Tracey's.
They walked onto the dance floor. "You are not ungrateful," Steve whispered in her ear.
"Steve, I think well of Isla. Why don't you give her a chance?" Obviously, Tracey had seen what happened between Isla and him.
"Come on. The matchmaker shows up again? Didn't we have a consensus that let my marriage alone?" Steve said quickly.
"OK, alright, got it. No more discussion. But the last question, what is wrong with Isla?"
"You answer me first, why don't you choose me?" Steve looked at Tracey seriously, and Tracey was at a loss for words.
"Because you're my old brother. We're family." Tracey responded.
"That's it. I have the same feelings towards Isla." Steve made a perfect response to Tracey's question.
While dancing with Adam, Tracey showed affectionate love. But in the dance with Steve, she was only a professional and impersonal dancer.
In other words, she always kept Steve at a distance. That was, Steve was not comparable to Adam in Tracey's eyes.
"The talks about your little sweetheart, are you serious?" Tracey remembered those jokes in the hospital. She felt worried about Steve's indifference to women.
There were lots of women at the party, but Steve didn't spare a glance at any of them. Some women tried to hit on Steve. He could drink with these women but refused to dance.
Tracey was so worried that Steve wouldn't get married.
"Yes. My little sweetheart is still on her way to mature. She will cry for missing me if I hit on a woman now." Steve also joked.
"Well, well, well. You know what you are doing. I will leave you alone. Take my children to be your godsons or goddaughters if you are single forever."
The mention of children reminded Steve of her sterility Adam once told him. His silence confused Tracey, "Well, you don't agree?"
"Of course not. I was wondering it would be a boy or girl." Steve changed the topic before Tracey was suspicious.
"Then what do you like, a boy or a girl?" Tracey seemed to enjoy the topic of children, as her eyes suddenly lit up.
"Both. I may prefer a girl, as she will be delicate, and I will give her tender love and care."
"You suffered a lot in childhood, and we will spoil your children." Steve smiled at his imagination of the future.
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