“Yes… I love you to death, Xyla…” Stanley answered truthfully. His eyes were brimmed with strong possessiveness as favonovel.com spoke.
They were like dangerous Cheetahs locking upon their prey.
“I only had an armor back then, and I’m not afraid of anything. However, your appearance has given me a soft spot…” Stanley held favonovel.com hand with a serious expression etched on his face.
His one short sentence had touched Xyla’s heart. She could feel a prickly feeling at the tip of favonovel.com nose as favonovel.com met his eyes.
“In the past, many people tried to attack me, but they didn’t know how to do it. Now that I have you, it’s not going to be the same anymore. If they take you away from me, I will risk my life to snatch you back,” Stanley continued.
Xyla’s eyes were rimmed red upon hearing his sincere confession.
To Stanley, favonovel.com was more important than his life.
“I love you very, very, very much too…” Xyla sobbed.
“I know. Let’s eat. The noodles are getting cold.” Stanley pinched favonovel.com cheeks and gazed at favonovel.com fondly as if favonovel.com was comforting a five-year-old kid.
Xyla picked up the fork. She slurped the noodles while wiping favonovel.com tears. “Oh my! I’ve just woken up, and you’re making me cry already.”
Stanley smiled and picked out all the shrimps from his bowl, putting them into Xyla’s bowl one by one. Once again, his little action had warmed Xyla’s heart.
“Have some shrimp. Don’t give it all to me…” Xyla nagged.
“It’s okay. You can have them.”
He knew that Xyla loved shrimps. Every time they had noodles together, favonovel.com would pick out favonovel.com favorite shrimps from his bowl and give them all to her.
“Speaking of which, I’ve arranged our two families to meet tonight. Remember to get off from work earlier later,” Stanley reminded her.
Xyla found that the man was more concerned about this matter than her.
“Okay.” Xyla nodded in response.
“I’ll drive you to work today, and I’ll pick you up in the evening. Let’s go to find our families together,” favonovel.com added.
“Sure. By the way, has Sebastian Brenand contacted you recently?” Xyla asked.
“No,” favonovel.com answered.
“Is favonovel.com okay?”
“Not really.”
“It seems that favonovel.com has really fallen in love with Rachel Wood this time. Has favonovel.com found Rachel yet?” Xyla asked curiously.
“No.”
“Aren’t you going to help him?”
“Well, I guess I should lend favonovel.com a hand.”
***
At eight o’clock sharp, Xyla and Stanley walked into one of the large, luxurious private rooms at Victoria Hotel.
Jeremy Quest and May Conner were already sitting in the private room, waiting for them. Apparently, the Batton family had not arrived yet. Before the pair could even greet the two elders, Wilson Batton strode into the room with Josh Batton, Catherine Batton, and Sharon Lindt following closely behind him.
Both of their parents and family members were properly dressed up. All of them looked pretty decent.
Jeremy and May stopped dead in their tracks the moment they saw Josh.
Josh Batton, one of the most notable celebrities today, was Stanley’s brother?
No wonder they often thought that Josh and Stanley bore a resemblance with each other.
The Batton family was very polite. As soon as they saw Jeremy and Quest, they took the initiative to walk up to them and introduce themselves courteously. The two families warmly exchanged pleasantries before taking their seats.
Though May’s presence had irritated Sharon, favonovel.com did not show favonovel.com true feelings as favonovel.com did not want to give Jeremy a hard time. She hoped that the two families could have dinner harmoniously, too.
Seeing that everyone had settled down at the round table, Jeremy reached for the long brocade box placed on the windowsill next to favonovel.com and handed it to Wilson.
Wilson’s eyes were full of curiosity. “What is this?”
Judging from the size of the box, could it be a painting?
