The Seventh Miserable Bride novel Chapter 203

She took his briefcase and the two of them walked out of the arrival hall side by side. Gabriel Smith answered playfully, "I'm busy all day, how do I have the time to go places? I owe it completely to missing you."

She chuckled, "What do you want to eat? My treat?" "Are you sure, cheapskate?"

"Who's a cheapskate?"

"You are. When we met for the first time, you agreed to treat me to a meal after the interview, but I still had to pay for it after we were done."

"You paid it on your free will. I didn't ask you to pay."

"That's because I knew you were short of money. Being the gentleman I am, I found a way to give you an out. But after that, your salary kept rising, still, you haven't invited me to dinner. If you're not a cheapskate, what are you then? But it doesn't matter. I am a generous person, so I won't fuss over this with a little girl like you."

"Ah, there's a horn over there."

Yasmine pretended to be surprised and pointed to the sky.

"A horn?" Gabriel was shocked. "Where's the horn?" "Can't you hear someone blowing their own horn?"

Gabriel rolled his eyes, conveying his lack of words for her dry humor.

After lunch, Yasmine accompanied Gabriel across the streets and alleys of B City. She explained the name and origin of every alley for him thoughtfully. Gabriel asked in surprise, "Why do you know so much about this place?"

"I've been working here for a couple of months. How could I not know?"

Gabriel was still puzzled. "Didn't you say you were busy with your work? You told me that you were too busy to even eat when I asked you to come back to F City. How could you have time to familiarize yourself with this city?"

Yasmine gulped and replied with a flicker in her eyes, "I have an extremely good memory. It only took me a day to become familiar with these places."

In the evening, the two of them had dinner together again. After dinner, they went to a karaoke bar and sang their hearts out all night long. Gabriel wanted to send Yasmine back home to rest. However, in order to avoid any misunderstandings, Yasmine had him send her to the guest apartment instead.

Just as she was about to get off the car, Gabriel grabbed her hand. She asked with confusion, "What's wrong?"

"Did you forget something?"

He was signaling for a farewell kiss. Yasmine was in a sticky situation. Just then, her phone rang. She retracted her hand immediately and muttered, "Who on the earth's calling me in the middle of the night..." She answered the phone as she opened the car door and said, "Hello?"

"Why did you take the day off again today?"

The phone call was from Sebastian Simons. Yasmine was not required to report to the President. She only needed to inform her team leader regarding her leave, hence Sebastian only knew that she didn't go to work later in the afternoon.

"Oh, Director Smith is here."

Yasmine smiled and waved to Gabriel, then spun around and dashed into the apartment.

"Are you not coming back tonight?"

"Yeah."

As soon as she said that, she thought that Sebastian would definitely misinterpret the meaning of her words, so she immediately explained, "It's late now, so I'm sleeping in the apartment."

"Only you?"

"Yeah."

Toot, toot. Sebastian hung up the phone. Yasmine snorted at the phone, "What? That's it?"

The next day was a weekend, hence Yasmine did not have to go for work. Gabriel came to the apartment early in the morning to pick her up. When she got in the car, she asked, "Where do you wanna go today?"

"Out to the sea."

"Out to the sea?" Her eyes widened in horror, "What do you mean out to the sea?" "I rented a yacht. I'll take you to enjoy the sea breeze."

"Are you kidding me? The weather is freezing. I'll freeze to death out there even without the wind and you're still thinking of enjoying the sea breeze. Do you want to go out to get frozen?"

Yasmine sneezed as she spoke.

"Don't worry. I'll be responsible if you freeze to death."

He smiled mischievously and added, "If you aren't frozen to death, I'll be even more responsible for you."

Hmph. Yasmine huffed. Although she was not too thrilled with the idea, it seemed like she could not do anything about it.

Meanwhile, Sebastian sat in the study at home. He held a famous psychological novel in his hand but he couldn't seem to read a single page for he was terribly troubled. He had been anxious from the night before until now, especially after he knew that Yasmine took the day off to accompany Gabriel.

With a thump, he threw the book aside, leaned back on the chair and closed his eyes.

Did she not say that she would stay by his side starting from that moment? Why must he move away and stand aside when Gabriel came to the city then?

Could it be that she stayed with him merely out of sympathy?

What would the two of them do once they were together? A man and a woman could do anything when they were alone...

The more he thought about it, the more annoyed he became. He did not want to think about it anymore. He got up and took the car keys, ready to go out. If he continued to think about it, he would have had the urge to kill someone.

Gabriel sailed the yacht to the middle of the sea. Suddenly, he took a bunch of red roses out of nowhere and handed them to Yasmine. "Will you marry me, Miss Lorris?"

Yasmine was stunned. She was visibly surprised by his gesture and she did not know what to do at that moment. She wanted to refuse Gabriel but it was not the right time.

"Well... I'm still thinking about it."