"I'm sorry, Natalie. I really don't have the tto join you guys tonight. Anyway, I've confirmed with Sebastian that he'll be in Agaphen City for a while. Let's meet up next time, okay?" Natalie agreed immediately, without a doubt.
There would be plenty of opportunities for them to meet up from now on.
"Well then, you two go ahead and enjoy yourselves." Yvonne hung up with that.
On the way to the restaurant, Natalie and Sebastian chatted freely.
They were classmates, and it'd been a long tsince they last met. Natalie felt like there was plenty for them to talk about.
Sebastian was working as a screenwriter now and had becrather well-known in his industry. He had worked on sof the recent popular movies.
"I've been a little tired because I've been staying on movie sets for a long period. I just wanted to cback for a rest, but I didn't expect to meet you again, Natalie," Sebastian exclaimed. This reunion with Natalie should be his biggest harvest.
Natalie smiled.
"By the way, Sebastian, have you gotten married yet?" Natalie casually asked.
She thought that Sebastian should have already gotten married at this age. Perhaps he even had a child or two.
Sebastian blushed and replied, "No." This answer surprised Natalie a little.
Such a dutiful man like him should have already gotten married.
"Why not?" She asked subconsciously.
Sebastian's breath hitched, and his conversation with his aunt that day cto the front of his mind again.
"Natalie, can I tell you later while we eat?" Sebastian said.
Natalie did not think much about it. "Sure." Sebastian brought her to a French restaurant for dinner.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtOnce they were seated, Natalie felt a little out of place. She saw that all the other patrons were couples.
She asked Sebastian teasingly, "Sebastian, you're not interested in me, are you? Why did you choose a lovebird restaurant for our dinner?" Sebastian's face reddened in a beat.
He mustered up his courage and said, "Yes." At the stime, Natalie had just taken a sip of her drink, and she spluttered at his words.
Coughing a little, she looked at Sebastian in astonishment.
She'd just been joking with him, but she hadn't expected him to reply in the affirmative.
Sebastian looked at her earnestly. "In fact, I have liked you since our freshman year." She almost spit out her juice in shock.
With immense effort, Natalie swallowed the juice.
"Sebastian, you're not joking, are you?" Sebastian did not hesitate at all. "Of course not, Natalie." He paused before continuing. "In fact, I wasn't going to say anything, but my aunt toldthat you were single." A sense of helplessness washed over Natalie.
She was no longer a clueless girl who knew nothing about the world. Judging from the look in Sebastian's eyes, she knew that he wasn't lying.
Recalling their university days, she realised that Sebastian had definitely been a little different with her.
Natalie licked her dry lips. "Oh, well, I have to say that it really tooka long tto figure it out. In fact, you had to actually say it out loud forto find out..." Natalie was a little awkward and did not know what to do.
Sebastian had plucked up all his courage.
Now that he had said it, there was no way back.
"Natalie, if you are single now, can you consider me?" Sebastian's gaze bore deep into Natalie's.
His fair face was red all over, but his eyes were full of determination.
Looking at Sebastian's eyes, Natalie was even more awkward.
She scratched her head. "Sebastian, look... friends really shouldn't mingle..." She'd always thought of Sebastian as her best friend of the opposite gender. How was she to know that he would've thought otherwise? They hadn't seen each other for so many years, and here he was, confessing his love to her out of nowhere. Sebastian's face turned even redder after hearing Natalie's response.
He did not dare look into Natalie's eyes anymore, and could only lower his head, "Natalie, I'm being serious." He didn't know how to respond to her words, so he could only show her how he truly felt.
Natalie was stuck in limbo. She could sense dead air starting to form between them.
At this awkward moment, the waiter happened to serve their food.
Natalie coughed and said as brightly as possible, "Maybe we can talk about this later, Sebastian. Let's dig in, shall we?" "Ah, okay." Sebastian, still flushed, hurriedly picked up his cutlery.
He was so nervous that he accidentally cut a piece of steak so violently it flew onto Natalie's plate.
Sebastian even was more aghast this time.
Flustered, he apologized to Natalie hastily.
"Natalie, I'm, I'm so sorry." Natalie couldn't help laugh at the incident and Sebastian's reaction, bemused.
Sebastian's embarrassed look at that moment made her think of herself for no reason.
Before this, she was also clumsy with her cutlery.
When she ate steak for the first time, she'd also caused it fly into the air...
Natalie's smile suddenly froze.
She remembered that she seemed to have eaten her first steak with Tobias.
Natalie stopped smiling at once.
She'd suddenly lost her appetite. search the FindNøvelWebsite on Gøøgle to access chapters of early and in the highest quality.
"Sebastian, I think I'm done," Natalie said.
Sebastian panicked and said, "Natalie, it's all my fault. I'll ask the waiter to get us new steaks." He thought that he'd caused her to lose her appetite because of his wayward piece of steak.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmNatalie shook her head. "It's fine, I just don't want to eat steak anymore. Let's go somewhere else, anywhere without steak." Sebastian immediately agreed.
After walking out of the restaurant, Sebastian asked Natalie where she wanted to go.
Natalie didn't know either.
In the end, Sebastian suggested having squick bites around their university.
Natalie liked the idea as well, agreeing.
Sebastian drove them to Agaphen University, where there were many street food stalls lined up on a long street.
Natalie basically ate for as long as they walked.
When they got closer to the university, Natalie couldn't help feeling a wave of nostalgia Sheland Sebastian reminisced over things that happened during their university days. They did not realize that they had been walking for a long time, and the sky was completely dark. This was also the season where it got a little cold as soon as the sky got dark.
Natalie didn't wear much, so the cold wind made her shiver.
Sebastian noticed this and immediately took off his suit jacket, draping it over her shoulders.
Startled, she quickly refused, "No, keep it on, or you're gonna feel cold too."
Sebastian was determined. "Natalie, you wear it. I'm not going to w to wearit even if you don't sebastian looked gentle and polite, he was actually quite stubborn. Natalie had no choice but to leave it over her shoulders.
Sebastian was tall. When Natalie put on his suit jacket, it almost covered her buttocks.
"Let's go back after this," Natalie said.
Now that she knew Sebastian had feelings for her, she didn't feel comfortable spending a prolonged period of twith him. Though Sebastian wanted to spend more twith Natalie, he couldn't say no, since Natalie had already said she wanted to leave. Under the chilly night, the two strolled back the way they had come, back to the car.
A Black Bentley glided smoothly.
On his way back to the Whitlock family villa, Tobias passed by Agaphen University.
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