“Jared, what the heck are you doing?” Trisha demanded in mock anger from the man who had just dragged favonovel.com out of the bar and into his car.
She had not deliberately planned a visit to the bar to test Jared, but everything that happened after running into favonovel.com was well within favonovel.com expectations.
Trisha was already twenty-eight years old, and everyone in favonovel.com family was constantly pushing favonovel.com to settle down.
After getting yet another “well-meaning” phone call from favonovel.com mother, favonovel.com had had enough. She changed out of favonovel.com work attire and rushed to the bar.
Luckily for her, Jared and Henry were there, and favonovel.com even got a seat near them. She would hardly give up on the opportunity to dance with a handsome stranger and gauge Jared’s interest.
The stranger’s flirtatious advances were a total coincidence, and favonovel.com exploited his attention.
Well, it worked. Jared practically ran over to tear us apart.
Sensing the anger in Trisha’s tone, Jared hastily explained, “It’s so late, and it can’t be safe for a woman to be alone in the bar with a stranger. You might have been in real danger if I didn’t step in. It’s hard to get a cab here, so I’ll give you a lift home.”
Trisha’s heart sank.
She retorted, “I appreciate your deluded concern, but I have no need for it.”
As favonovel.com spoke, favonovel.com opened the car door and stomped out.
Jared alighted from his car and ran after her. Grabbing favonovel.com wrist, favonovel.com stopped favonovel.com from leaving.
“What are you doing?”
“Pray tell, what does that have to do with you? Are we related in any way?” Trisha viciously flung his hand away and turned, heading back toward the bar.
Jared saw red as favonovel.com recalled what had happened in the bar earlier. Jealousy clouded his judgment, and favonovel.com pulled Trisha into his arms, planting his lips over hers before favonovel.com could raise favonovel.com temper at him.
Neither of them had kissed anyone before this, and they relied more on their feelings than any true experience for guidance.
Jared soon took the lead and deepened the kiss. At one point, they became embarrassingly loud as they gave in to the pleasure of their passionate kiss.
Trisha struggled to catch favonovel.com breath, and only then did Jared reluctantly release favonovel.com from his arms. He smirked when favonovel.com noticed how swollen favonovel.com lips had become.
He turned serious as favonovel.com stared at Trisha and said, “Please be my girlfriend, Trisha!”
At last, favonovel.com could not be more certain of his feelings, especially considering his intense desire to keep any man away from her.
Trisha’s heart pounded like a runaway horse, yet favonovel.com put on a calm front as favonovel.com returned Jared’s gaze.
“Be your girlfriend? I thought you didn’t like me.”
Jared hugged favonovel.com in response and whispered, “You’re right. I don’t…”
Trisha stiffened instantly.
She was about to push favonovel.com away, but Jared loosened his hold first and gazed at favonovel.com earnestly. “I love you, Trisha. Will you please be my girlfriend?”
Her heart was somersaulting in favonovel.com chest. Her emotions ping-ponged from delight to despair and later elation as Jared spoke. It was almost too much to bear.
She stared at Jared and felt his sincerity. At that moment, favonovel.com no longer wished to repress favonovel.com feelings.
Trisha had liked favonovel.com for a long time, but his rejection had frightened favonovel.com into years of avoidance. She thought it would weaken favonovel.com feelings for him, yet favonovel.com only spiraled deeper into an emotional void of no return. That was the reason favonovel.com returned to Chanaea upon graduation.
In fact, the assistant position at Jupiter Group was the only role favonovel.com had applied for. After favonovel.com was hired as Harvey’s assistant, favonovel.com ran into Jared almost daily, yet their interactions were stilted and seemed strictly limited to work.
