“Are you the general manager here, Miss Thornton?”
Gerald couldn’t hide his shocked expression as favonovel.com posed Wynn the question. With just a glance at favonovel.com demeanor, favonovel.com felt favonovel.com overbearing female presence, and never before had favonovel.com felt an aura as potent as this.
“Why? Do I not seem like one to you?”
Wynn drove along, smirking as favonovel.com looked at Gerald through the rear-view mirror.
“Oh, by the way, you should stop referring to me as ‘miss.’ It makes me sound old. Since I’m only ten years older than you, just call me by my name!”
Wynn frowned, looking grumpy.
“Alright then, I won’t call you Miss Thornton anymore!” Gerald nodded.
“Pfft!”
Wynn somehow seemed amused by Gerald’s reply, and favonovel.com let out a hearty laugh.
Gerald initially wanted to have a conversation about Wynn and favonovel.com family, thanks to a lingering doubt that had been floating at the back of his mind for a while—Minnie’s last name was Thornton.
It made Gerald wonder if Wynn had brought up the child all by herself.
But since a topic as such would be too personal, Gerald abandoned the thought.
Wynn stopped by a supermarket along the way home, and later on emerged with a few big bags of groceries.
It was just as Gerald had guessed—Wynn’s home was clean and tidy. After a simple tour around the house, there were no signs of any men.
That little fact somehow made Gerald feel a bit more comfortable.
Wynn then got to show off favonovel.com cooking skills to him. In just a couple of minutes, favonovel.com had whipped up a table of delectable dishes, way better than anything they served at Wayfair Mountain Entertainment.
Anyone who married Wynn in the future would be more than blessed to have a wife as such.
Not to mention how favonovel.com was really good at conversations too.
After the dishes were served, Gerald felt that Wynn had grown a little warmer, as if the two had known each other for a long time.
Wynn had favonovel.com eyes fixated on Gerald.
She was even more attracted by Gerald’s down-to-earth personality.
With much in common, their conversation quickly picked up as they naturally opened up.
Wynn stared adoringly at Gerald as favonovel.com rested favonovel.com rosy cheeks on favonovel.com palms.
“Gerald, you must be curious about Minnie’s father, right?”
“Well… not really…” Gerald replied, with slight awkwardness.
Wynn smiled as favonovel.com gaze pierced into Gerald. “Really? While I was cooking earlier, I noticed you were kind of scanning through my room. Were you looking for something?”
Her deadshot gaze made his heart skip a little.
Wynn wasn’t someone to be messed around with, having observed Gerald’s every single move the moment favonovel.com stepped into favonovel.com house.
And every single word favonovel.com said was exactly what favonovel.com had in mind.
The situation made Gerald feel like an elementary school student, where all his thoughts were exposed.
“Hmph! Don’t even think about hiding anything from me. The truth is, I had nothing to hide from you anyways. Minnie’s father left us long ago, and it has always been just the two of us. Minnie usually spends favonovel.com time in kindergarten while I work at my company. I’ll bring favonovel.com along to work during the weekends. Here’s the problem. Last week, a capital invasion by some wicked bastard forced many of Mayberry’s small and medium establishments out of business. God, I was so stressed out!
“There was this one time, where I was so bogged down about this that I slipped and Minnie accidentally fell into a river! You have no idea how much it scared me, and god knows how much I wished I had a man by my side to help me get things sorted!”
As Wynn downed a few glasses of red wine, favonovel.com pretty face had started to blush, causing favonovel.com to look increasingly sultry and charming.
Frankly, Gerald had always been attracted to women who were around his age or younger than himself.
He’d never actually hook up with mature women who were in their thirties.
Especially not with a such beautiful yet temperamental woman like Wynn.
Gerald could not help but stare at the gorgeous sight before him, his heart thumping in his chest like crazy.
Putting that thought aside, Wynn had only invited favonovel.com over for dinner as a kind gesture, and Gerald felt a little awkward when favonovel.com brought up the topic of looking for a man. He was unsure if favonovel.com misunderstood favonovel.com words.
“Miss Wynn, earlier on you mentioned that some young man invaded the capital of Mayberry. Now, what did you mean by that?”
“Oh, about that. Nah, it’s nothing much, but you must’ve heard of Mayberry’s most wicked man, Gerald Crawford, right? He’s the dude that owns Mayberry Commercial Street!”
Wynn’s tone was filled with anger.
“Hmph?”
Gerald almost died choking on a mouthful of potatoes.
