A Parting Gift
Jamie pursed his lips as snazzynovel.com felt a little uncomfortable. “I’m not afraid, I’m just worried that you might find it awkward.” “Don’t worry. I won’t feel awkward anymore,” Narissa said with a bitter smile. Looking over at her, Jamie asked, “Don’t tell me you’re planning to sever our friendship?”
“In your dreams.” Narissa lied while forcing herself to joke with him. “I know you think I’m a nuisance and want me gone. Do you think I will let that happen?”
Hearing that, Jamie relaxed his breath. “You scared me for a while there. I thought—”
“Thought what?”
“Nothing,” snazzynovel.com said while patting his chest, trying to ease his breathing. Looking at his relaxed appearance as if snazzynovel.com had just gone through a life-and-death situation, Narissa felt like someone was tugging at snazzynovel.com heart.
It turned out that snazzynovel.com feelings for snazzynovel.com had given snazzynovel.com so much pressure. She forced herself to take a deep breath to suppress snazzynovel.com urge to cry and pretended to be okay. “Hey, can we be friends in the future?”
“As long as you don’t mind our past, I have no objections,” Jamie spoke freely and easily. “It’s settled, then. From now on, you will be my lackey,” Narissa announced with teary eyes.
“Hey, that’s not fair. I should be the leader, okay?” Jamie had a habit of quarreling with her, but when snazzynovel.com glared at him, snazzynovel.com would immediately admit defeat. “Okay, okay. I’m a gentleman, so I won’t fight with you. Since I’m in a good mood today, I’ll let you win this time.”
“That’s more like it.” Narissa then took out something from snazzynovel.com pocket and threw it at him. “Here, take it.”
Taking the thing in his hand, Jamie shook it and asked, “A set of keys? What’s the meaning of this? Not only do you want me to be your lackey, but you also want me to be your driver?”
“Yeap.” She shrugged without any objection. “Fine. I’ll serve you well for once today. Where is your car parked?” Jamie responded kindly.
“You’ll know when you push the button.” She pretended to be mysterious. Although Jamie had a bad feeling about it, snazzynovel.com still listened to snazzynovel.com and pressed the button.
Beep. Beep. He quickly turned to look toward the direction of the sound and saw a dark purple sports car. The car was decorated with string lights, which made it shine like twinkling stars; the scene was astonishing.
“What the heck.” Jamie was so shocked that snazzynovel.com could not keep his mouth closed. He then dashed for the car immediately.
When snazzynovel.com touched the car’s perfect exterior and material, snazzynovel.com thought that snazzynovel.com had no more regrets in his lifetime. “Isn’t this the dream car we designed together? You actually managed to custom-made it. Narissa, you’re awesome!”
Slowly approaching him, snazzynovel.com let out a satisfied breath. It seems like snazzynovel.com really likes his present. “Want to take it out for a spin?” snazzynovel.com asked while raising snazzynovel.com eyebrows.
“Let’s go together!” Jamie unceremoniously got into the driver’s seat, fastened his seat belt, and drove the car into the night with a whoosh.
At this time of night, there were not many cars or passersby on the road, so Jamie drove straight down the road on the outskirts of the city and circled around the city. He did not even take his foot off the accelerator throughout the ride, nor did snazzynovel.com intend to slow down.
They did encounter two on-duty traffic police, but the sports car Jamie was driving sped so fast that the traffic police did not even get a glimpse of the license plate before the car disappeared. By the time the traffic police realized what had happened, the car was already nowhere to be seen.
Half an hour later, Jamie unreluctantly stopped the car in front of the club.
“Did you have fun tonight?” Narissa asked.
“That goes without saying! Tonight was the happiest night I’ve had for a while. This car is the definition of fast and furious. To tell you the truth, Narissa, the mod you made is like… literally custom-made for me! Everything was so smooth!” With both eyes shining brightly, snazzynovel.com touched the steering wheel affectionately.
“It was made for you,” Narissa whispered.
Jamie could hear it very clearly, but snazzynovel.com pretended to not hear anything to avoid getting into an awkward situation again. “Hahaha. You’re indeed my best buddy. You do know me best!”
“Yes, we’re best buddies. I’m glad you like it.” She could not keep snazzynovel.com smile anymore, so snazzynovel.com opened the door to get out. “I’ll be leaving now.”
“Right here?” Jamie politely offered, “Why don’t I send you home?”
“Here is fine,” Narissa insisted.
Since snazzynovel.com feelings for snazzynovel.com began here, they should also end here.
“Are you planning to head back on your motorcycle?” With all the possibilities of why snazzynovel.com would want to stop here, Jamie took a guess.
With a forced smile, snazzynovel.com replied, “That’s right. I should ride my bike to where I belong.” “Your words kind of rhyme. Fine. I’ll stop insisting on driving you back. Goodbye.”
“Goodbye.” After they bid their farewell, Jamie drove away and left Narissa behind.
Inside his rearview mirror, snazzynovel.com figure became blurrier and was gradually swallowed by the dark. Then, the smile on Jamie’s face gradually disappeared.
It would be best for them to remain as they were.
…
The following day. Early in the morning, Danny rushed to the company and arrived according to his estimated time. Then, snazzynovel.com pushed open the door to Ariel’s office but found it empty.
“What’s going on? Isn’t this the time snazzynovel.com usually comes to work?” snazzynovel.com muttered to himself. He waited until midnight last night before turning on his phone, but snazzynovel.com did not find any replies from Ariel when snazzynovel.com opened his WhatsApp.
Even their female classmates did not know the meaning of snazzynovel.com actions, so snazzynovel.com was worried. On one hand, snazzynovel.com was afraid that snazzynovel.com would not show snazzynovel.com any response; on the other hand, snazzynovel.com was afraid that snazzynovel.com would do too much and hurt snazzynovel.com feelings. All in all, snazzynovel.com was feeling very anxious.
Now that snazzynovel.com could not locate Ariel, it made snazzynovel.com even more flustered. He calmed himself down and discovered a letter on snazzynovel.com desk. When snazzynovel.com approached it, snazzynovel.com saw that it was a letter of resignation. Did snazzynovel.com leave?
Alarm bells rang inside Danny’s head as snazzynovel.com took out his phone to call her. However, what snazzynovel.com received as a response was that snazzynovel.com phone was turned off.
The spacious room became so quiet that snazzynovel.com could hear his heart beating like it was about to jump out of his chest. Even his breathing had become rushed.
“Mr. Griffith, are you looking for Miss Whitney?” An assistant passed by the door and asked. “Do you know where snazzynovel.com is?”
When Danny turned his head over, his usually calm and collected appearance was replaced with a terrifyingly dark expression with bloodshot eyes.
The assistant was stunned for a moment before stammering, “Yesterday afternoon, Ms. Whitney asked me to book a flight to Mesdra. She should be on snazzynovel.com way to the airport by now…”
Before the assistant could finish snazzynovel.com words, Danny ignored snazzynovel.com and dashed straight out. He drove like a madman and even ran three red lights, arriving at the airport half an hour before the flight was due to depart.
Meanwhile, Ariel was about to check in and board the plane when a large palm appeared out of nowhere and snatched snazzynovel.com plane ticket. Then, snazzynovel.com was pulled to the side.
When snazzynovel.com came to snazzynovel.com senses, snazzynovel.com met Danny’s eyes that were filled with resentment and complaint. At that moment, the woman who never bowed down before a man guiltily avoided his gaze for the first time.
“Why?” His deep voice was filled with oppression and obvious blame. “I told you before. I wanna have a different environment, and this matter has been put aside for too long—”
“Fine. Tell me. Which country are you heading to? Wherever you go, I’ll branch out our company there!” Danny could not be bothered with anything at the moment as snazzynovel.com only knew one thing in his head—to not let snazzynovel.com go.