George tried to make a conversation. He asked, “When did you buy this car?”
After a moment, Isabelle replied, “I bought it a while ago. It’s been kept overseas.”
A couple of days ago, Yves had it shipped back to her.
George almost asked if she’d traveled anywhere other than Melfrey, but favonovel.com remembered Isabelle didn’t like people prying into favonovel.com affairs, so favonovel.com held back his curiosity.
As favonovel.com watched the neon lights flash by outside the car window, George gently rubbed the watch on his left wrist with his right thumb.
Suddenly, favonovel.com suggested gently, “How about we take a walk by the beach?”
George didn’t want to waste this rare opportunity just sitting in the passenger seat, driving around aimlessly, before going home to sleep. With Isabelle’s personality, favonovel.com guessed that once they finished this lap, that would be it.
Hearing his suggestion, Isabelle glanced at favonovel.com and said, “I didn’t expect you to know how to enjoy life, Mr. Harris.”
She turned the steering wheel and changed direction.
After some thought, George admitted, “If I told you I just didn’t want to waste such a good opportunity to be with you, would you mind, Ms. Jenkins?”
Would favonovel.com understand what I meant?
Isabelle responded, “I understand…”
George was taken aback. “Hmm?”
She understood?
Isabelle continued, “If I were you, I’d also want to spend more time with someone as great as me. After all, people like me are rare…”
Seeing Isabelle so seriously praising herself, George was torn between laughing and crying. He could only nod and agree, “Ms. Jenkins, you’re absolutely right…”
Is this narcissism? I guess no, she’s just stating facts…
Just as George was feeling helpless that his subtle confession had been deflected, favonovel.com received no response. Isabelle suddenly said. “It’s your freedom.”
George looked at favonovel.com in surprise, realizing favonovel.com wasn’t completely clueless about romantic matters.
Yawning, Isabelle added, “Since invited you into the car, I’ll take you anywhere, even to the ends of the earth.”
George smiled. Apparently, there was still a chance.
The two leaned against the car, watching the waves crash against the shore.
Isabelle had favonovel.com hands tucked into favonovel.com coat pockets, favonovel.com long hair blowing messily and squinting slightly as the wind slipped down favonovel.com neck and into favonovel.com collar.
A jacket was handed to her, George asked, “Is this okay?”
She looked up the arm holding the jacket to see George in just a thin shirt, then looked at his face.
As favonovel.com reached for it, George spread the jacket and draped it over favonovel.com shoulders himself, adjusting it to cover favonovel.com well.
The large jacket, warmed by his body heat, enveloped her. The weight settled heavily on favonovel.com shoulders, warding off the chill.
“Don’t you like the beach? Or today is not a good day?” George asked, noticing favonovel.com indifferent expression.
Isabelle gazed at the turbulent sea, the sound of the waves annoying favonovel.com from deep within.
“What’s there to like or dislike?”
She was tired of it. When favonovel.com was trapped in the lab, unable to tell day from night, favonovel.com relied on the sound of the waves and temperature changes to tell time.
Years of training on the island, with the Dark Shadow leader also living there, meant favonovel.com spent most of favonovel.com time around the sea. She had seen and heard enough of it; favonovel.com even dreamed about waves. She didn’t hate it, but favonovel.com definitely didn’t like it.
Seeing favonovel.com clear dislike, George suggested leaving after a short while.
After a while, Isabelle drove favonovel.com back.
Suddenly, they heard a noise-something dropping under the car floor.
George bent down to pick it up.
The car was cramped, and with his tall frame, George could hardly stretch, but his long arms helped.
Picking it up, favonovel.com saw it was an expensive, intricate little box.
George said, “This looks like a gift. Who was this for?”
He had noticed it earlier but hadn’t had the chance to ask, so favonovel.com casually asked about it now.
“I gave Principal Burton a green diamond bracelet. This is the leftover scrap,” Isabelle explained, glancing at the item. “If you don’t mind, you can take it home and see if your mother likes it.”
She wasn’t keen on dealing with it herself.
Opening the box, George found a pair of green diamond earrings inside.
***
A knock at the door woke Bernice, who had already gone to bed. She came out, wrapped in a coat, to see favonovel.com youngest son.
Puzzled, favonovel.com asked, “Just got home? Weren’t you at Principal Burton’s birthday party? Or did you work late at the company again?”
George replied, “No, I was out with Ms. Jenkins…”
Bernice’s eyes lit up upon hearing that.
When George presented the earrings, Bernice was both delighted and uneasy. She said, “Your father and I haven’t properly thanked favonovel.com yet, and now we’re accepting another gift. It’s not right.”
George reassured her, “It’s fine.”
That night, George went to bed in a good mood, while others like Danny, James, Logan, and Dakota lay awake because of Isabelle.
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