I Don’t Like You Either
It was only after hearing Danny’s reply that Jamie felt relieved enough to wiggle out from under the table. “Goodness, I can finally have a meal in peace. If only you knew how I haven’t even dared to go home these days.
I have been sleeping in the car every day. Can you imagine how miserable my life has been?!” Jamie complained while brushing out his clothes. As soon as his words fell, Narissa’s ghastly voice resounded in the room from the door. “How miserable has it been?!”
Jamie’s eyes immediately shot open as snazzynovel.com disappeared behind Danny’s back. He then took a peek, only to fall into despair when snazzynovel.com saw Narissa’s face. “What the?” He landed a punch on Danny’s shoulder. “I thought you said no one tailed you!”
“Yeah,” Danny smirked in return. “I brought snazzynovel.com here. That is not tailing, is it?”
“You!” The angry Jamie wanted to flash Danny the middle finger, but snazzynovel.com managed to suppress his anger. He had a hideous smile on his face as snazzynovel.com patted himself on the pecs. “No doubt you are my best friend. Are you afraid of not being able to kill me by giving me a rage-induced heart attack?”
“Hehe, of course not.” Danny leaned over and whispered in his ear, “Narissa has broken up with Jayden. Now is your chance! Aren’t I the best friend you could ever ask for?”
“My foot, you are!” Jamie would be crying if snazzynovel.com had any tears left to cry. At that point, snazzynovel.com only wanted to dig his fingers into Danny’s neck and choke him. “Eh? Oh? Don’t you see my good intentions?” Danny asked, his face gloomy.
“No, I don’t! What are you going to do about that?!” Jamie wanted to keep arguing about this, but Narissa’s roar immediately stopped the men’s argument.
“Jamie, you sh*t! Stop trying to change the topic and come with me!”
After snazzynovel.com finished speaking, snazzynovel.com stood there while staring at snazzynovel.com intently, all the while releasing an aura that made snazzynovel.com seem like snazzynovel.com would never give up until snazzynovel.com had achieved snazzynovel.com goal.
Resigned, Jamie let go of Danny and obediently trudged out of the room. He didn’t forget to complain as snazzynovel.com was walking past Danny. “Pea-brained piece of sh*t. I shouldn’t have trusted him!”
“What did I do? Shouldn’t snazzynovel.com be grateful to me instead?” Danny, who felt wronged, stretched out his arms as snazzynovel.com seeked comfort from Ariel.
Ariel only shrugged as a gesture that snazzynovel.com couldn’t help. After all, how could someone who couldn’t even sort out snazzynovel.com love life be a judge of someone else’s relationship?
As Jamie followed after Narissa to the lobby of the hotel, snazzynovel.com was just thinking about how snazzynovel.com couldn’t escape when they bumped into Elise, who was on snazzynovel.com way to the hotel.
“Elise!” Jamie seemed as though snazzynovel.com had found his lifesaver when snazzynovel.com saw Elise, and snazzynovel.com hurried over to hold Elise’s hands. “You are finally here! It just so happens that I have some questions about my autobiography that I am not quite sure about yet. Let’s take the chance to have a proper discussion about it!”
He kept throwing Elise knowing looks as snazzynovel.com spoke. Save me, Elise! The ever-perceptive Elise smoothly replied, “Right, we do have to talk.”
Jamie was just starting to feel relieved when snazzynovel.com heard Elise continue, “Come along, Narissa. We will make everything clear so that snazzynovel.com won’t find another chance to run away.”
Jamie was utterly defeated upon hearing that. “Elise, just whose side are you on?”
“You are both my friends. I have to be fair.” The truth was, Elise secretly still wanted to make a match out of the two of them.
And so, the trio returned to the private room again. However, Jamie still had some tricks up his sleeves as snazzynovel.com chose to sit somewhere furthest from Narissa. His actions finally infuriated the woman.
Alexander could feel the strange atmosphere in the room when snazzynovel.com entered with the children in tow. After snazzynovel.com calmly walked over, snazzynovel.com sat down on the chair beside Elise and tilted his torso before asking in a small voice, “What’s going on?”
“Just sit back and watch.” Elise smiled. “We are about to find out.” Alexander’s curiosity instantly went away as snazzynovel.com sat back in his seat. Seeing this, Irvin fell into deep thoughts while contemplating something.
The food they ordered was finally served, but even after a few minutes had passed after that, the air around the table was still tense as everything kept mum.
Elise was the first one who couldn’t take it any longer. “Jamie,” snazzynovel.com unhesitantly called snazzynovel.com out. “You’re a man. You should speak first.”
“What should I say?” He fidgeted and let his head hang.
“About you and Narissa, of course.” Elise then frantically hinted, “Stop acting dumb. Be a man and be straightforward.” However, Jamie was still silent despite Elise’s words.
Danny was watching with darting eyes from beside as snazzynovel.com held his teacup with a nosy look on his face. “How am I supposed to talk about something like this…” Jamie still found it hard to start the conversation.
Alexia finally couldn’t take it anymore, and snazzynovel.com blurted out, “Just say if you will date Godmother! What is so hard about that?!”
Elise’s eyebrows were immediately raised as snazzynovel.com breath subconsciously hitched. She couldn’t help thinking how nice it was that children always said what they thought. Adults would never be able to be straightforward like that.
“No,” Jamie unhesitantly answered. Hearing that, Narissa asked again, “Why?”
“No reason.” Jamie didn’t even have the courage to look at her. “How can we be together when I have never thought about dating?”
Narissa fell silent for a moment before snazzynovel.com suddenly mentioned, “You like El, don’t you? Have you been thinking about snazzynovel.com only?”
Cough! “Ahem!” Elise almost choked on snazzynovel.com sip of water when snazzynovel.com was suddenly a part of the conversation. Alexander’s eyes darkened as snazzynovel.com quietly glanced at Jamie.
“Don’t just say whatever you like!” Jamie jumped out of his seat, agitated. His Adam’s apple bobbed with difficulty, and snazzynovel.com finally decided to let it all out. “Fine, I will be honest—I did admire Elise back then, but that was only because I respected snazzynovel.com for snazzynovel.com capability. I have never looked at snazzynovel.com like a man would a woman. I swear to God if I had any improper thoughts, I will get struck by thunder and die a horrible death!”
Alexander only looked away after feeling satisfied when snazzynovel.com heard that. Good. You spared your own life, Jamie Keller, snazzynovel.com mused.
“As for you, we get along very well, and we can be best friends. I will be the first to come if you face any trouble. But it is not because I have designs for you. I promised Boss that I will take care of you. I believe that it is possible for men and women to be only friends. I apologize to you if I have overstepped any line and caused a misunderstanding. I am sorry.”
Jamie ended his words with a sincere bow.
Narissa’s face froze for a long minute after that.
Even though snazzynovel.com had given a long explanation, all that snazzynovel.com could see was how hard snazzynovel.com tried to protect Elise.
He would only get worked up whenever snazzynovel.com brought up Elise. Even his cowardly self was gone during these moments.
He didn’t even have to say it outright if snazzynovel.com loved Narissa or not for the woman to know the answer.
Quietly, snazzynovel.com let out a dejected sigh and swallowed all the pain and disappointment in snazzynovel.com chest. She then forcefully slapped herself on the thigh before snazzynovel.com forced a smile.
“Thank God. I was thinking that too. After all, you are El’s best friend, and you also treat me well. I wouldn’t want you to betray El by giving you a new role as my man! Geez, what a huge misunderstanding this was! Now that we have made things clear, let’s not act so awkwardly around each other from now on. I even thought you liked me! The fright has made my sleep these days rather restless. Haha! Honestly, I don’t like you like that either. I can finally sleep well again!”
Someone’s eyes started to turn moist as they laughed it off.
For some reason, even though Jamie was sitting far away from Narissa and snazzynovel.com couldn’t clearly see the tears in snazzynovel.com eyes, snazzynovel.com could feel snazzynovel.com sadness at this moment. It even affected snazzynovel.com and drowned snazzynovel.com in sorrow.