The waiter served them their coffee.
Brennan wrapped his hands around his cup slowly.
It seemed that he was just warming his hands with the hot coffee, rather than drinking it.
"You... You and Selina share a close relationship, right?" he asked with his head down.
Caroline was surprised.
After a moment, she smiled and answered, "Yes, we do. In fact, we've been close ever since we went to school together. We're just like sisters."
"You... You didn't tell her anything, right?"
"Nope, you asked me not to tell her, so I didn't say anything."
Brennan heaved an obvious sigh of relief.
"That's good, that's good." He finally took a sip of his coffee.
It seemed that the coffee was too bitter as his brows immediately furrowed.
"You still have a crush on Selina, don't you?" Caroline's question came out of the blue.
Her tone made it sound more like a statement rather than a question.
Brennan let out a cough when he heard it, almost spitting out the coffee in his mouth.
He put down his cup hurriedly, his face as red as a tomato.
I... I don't." He lowered his head quickly.
"I don't, I really don't," he emphasized.
A glint of mockery flashed across Caroline's eyes.
Brennan had romantic feelings for Selina, and he had an extremely shy personality. Such a person would be easily manipulated.
With that in mind, she decided to keep him as a back-up tool, as he might be useful in the future.
She inched her face closer to his, and a bright smile appeared on her face. "Look at you, your face is already blushing, and yet you're still denying it."
Brennan felt even more uneasy.
He looked as if he was wanted to dig a hole to hide himself in.
Caroline's smile seemed to have some other meaning to it.
"Brennan, just admit that you like her."
"No, I don't." He was still trying to defend himself till the end.
"Stop pretending, Brennan, I already know everything," Caroline mentioned.
He was helpless.
"You... You can't tell her, please don't tell her," he said as he gave her a quick glance.
His words were basically an indirect confession of his feelings.
"Alright, I won't," Caroline replied in a blunt manner. "I definitely won't say a single word to her."
Once again, Brennan let out a sigh of ease.
"Didn't Selina recognize you?" Caroline continued asking.
He shook his head. "No."
Caroline fell into deep thought.
A moment later, she spoke straightforwardly, "By the way, you should stop going to the Whitlock family's villa, there are a lot of security cameras installed there."
She had gone to the villa for a specific reason that day, so she had been extremely careful. To her surprise, she found out that there were surveillance cameras set up in every corner around the villa.
Hence, Caroline had no choice but to abort her plan.
Brennan was shocked to the core when he heard
about the cameras.
He became really nervous. "How could this be... Security cameras? She... She didn't recognize me, right?"
Caroline consoled him, "I don't think so, she wouldn't have even suspected that it was you loitering around the villa."
"That's great, that's great."
"But you shouldn't go there anymore," she warned him.
"Of course I won't, I won't go there ever again."
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