Pampered Wife of Xavier

Chapter 25: Brief Encounter

While Ethan beside her looked on dotingly, his eyes were filled with a tenderness that Arya had never seen before as he watched Victoria choose her wedding dress.

She could not help but admit that seeing them standing there by the display window, she did feel that they were a solid match. The smiles that were splashed across their faces made her inevitably feel upset again.

Although the distance between them was just a thin and transparent display window, they still seemed like they were so very far away from her.

She had never dared to wish for anything she did not work hard to earn because she cared and desired it, so she would never mind how much effort she had to put in. As long as she could fight for it with hard work, she was willing to give it her all.

However, no matter how hard she tried, she still could not move Ethan or force him to fall in love with her even if she had been quietly fighting for it, giving it her all as the identity of his fiancè...

Yes, a relationship could never be one-sided.

She sighed with disappointment, gently closed her eyes, and then opened them. Trying hard to push the bitterness in her chest down, she turned her head away and did not want to think about it or look at them anymore.

Xavier who was pulling her up front had acutely noticed that her mood had experienced a sudden change. The hand that he held had suddenly become cold, so he then turned to look at her just in time to see the way her eyes dimmed and how she turned her head away.

His eyes shifted and he quickly noticed the couple that was smiling happily at the display window Instantly, he frowned as he thought about it. Then, he suddenly reached out to hold Arya across her shoulders, pulling her into his embrace. His perceptive and low voice slowly brushed past Arya's ears.

"Enough! With the way you're behaving right now, aren't you worried that my heart won't be at ease?!"

The sudden sturdy warmth startled Arya. After quite a while, she came to her senses. With his long arms domineeringly pulling her into his embrace, he looked down at her with reproach and disagreement. Of course, there were vague hints of pity too...

The sound of that soft reprimand sounded very tender and sensitive. On the contrary, it did not seem like he was chiding her.

Arya inhaled sharply, feeling a little upset. However, upon hearing the way he spoke so sensitively, she suddenly became weak and her raspy voice sounded a little gloomy when she answered,

"I don't care whether you're at ease or not. The point is I'm not at ease right now."

Xavier looked at how her twinkling eyes had dimmed. After he gave it some thought, he said,

"You should be happy. If that didn't happen, how could you've met someone as excellent as me? I, Xavier, am way better than Ethan! You've thrown a sesame seed away and picked up a watermelon! It's a good thing you can't even pray for even if you burnt incense for eight life cycles."

Arya was initially quite upset, but hearing him say all of this...

She really could not help but roll her eyes at this man whose confidence was off the charts.

"Even if he was just a sesame seed, are you really a watermelon?"

"Am I not? Even among New York CIty's most eligible bachelor ranks, he seems to be all the way at the back. Even though I'm also off the ranks now, before him there was still Jacob and Daniel, pushing him down until he couldn't move at all."

The man shot Ethan a look of disdain through the display window, his nonchalant gaze as icy as the wind.

Arya could not help but look at him with amusement as she smiled.