Chapter 1037: Chapter 1037 This Face-Slapping Is Too Fast!
Ding dong, ding dong…
Bertha Swift, with her hair half-dry, was still hesitating when suddenly the doorbell rang outside, startling her out of her daze. She was unsure whether to answer the door, but then Maria White poked her head out of the bathroom, “Bertha, who’s ringing the doorbell?”
“I’ll go check.” Last ti Bertha had already explained to Maria that there was nothing between her and Adam Piers. If Maria saw Adam coming to her door now, Bertha could just imagine the awkwardness. She quickly replied and went to open the door.
At the door, she thought for a mont and changed her slippers before opening it. Sure enough, it was the sa man from before.
At this point, Maria’s voice sounded again from inside, “Bertha, who is it?”
“Ah, wrong door. I’m going out for a walk and will be back soon.” Bertha fibbed to Maria and squeezed out the door.
As soon as she stepped out and faced Adam Piers, Bertha’s expression fell, “Why haven’t you left yet?”
Adam, who had just showered and changed clothes, looked Bertha over carefully. He noticed she seed even thinner and felt sorry for her, but his character wouldn’t allow him to say sweet words, so he gruffly said, “Didn’t I break your dessert last ti? I’m here to compensate you now.”
Bertha looked at Adam as if he were crazy, so he’s doing all this just to compensate her for so fucking dessert?
Her brows furrowed tightly as Bertha looked at Adam, “No need. What happened that day wasn’t your fault, and you don’t need to compensate.”
“I say compensate, so I compensate.” Adam said forcefully.
Bertha looked irritably at the man in front of her who wouldn’t listen, “Really, no need…”
But before she could finish her sentence, Adam grabbed her hand and started walking outside, muttering, “I haven’t eaten, you accompany for dinner.”
Bertha was annoyed and wanted to struggle out of Adam’s grip but then noticed his hand—the one injured the other day—and the bandage still wasn’t off. Her anger dissipated, and she let Adam lead her.
Only in the elevator did Adam notice Bertha wasn’t struggling, with a look of confusion, “You’re not angry anymore?”
“No, just don’t want to make useless struggles.” Bertha coldly replied to Adam, following him, but her aura exuded coldness.
Adam heard her but felt Bertha was saying one thing and aning another. Last ti she was deeply worried when he got into trouble, flying to West Mountain late at night to see him, and now she hurried to shower and change clothes after just seeing him. She clearly couldn’t let go of his hand, yet claid not to want to make useless struggles.
Looking at Bertha, Adam was convinced she liked him, just couldn’t let go of her pride.
But he wasn’t in a rush. He believed Bertha would eventually see his good qualities.
Bertha felt uncomfortable under Adam’s penetrating look of “I understand you, stop pretending.” She endured and stared at him, “Adam, can you act normal?”
Adam was suddenly bewildered hearing Bertha’s words, how was he not normal?
Bertha saw that Adam didn’t understand at all and turned her head, deciding to ignore him.
Adam had known Bertha wasn’t a good-tempered girl and didn’t mind, pulling her along to his car and instructing the driver to head to Imperial Cuisine Pavilion.
Bertha heard Adam ntion compensating her with dessert earlier but thought the man might not be up to anything reliable. Now hearing he was heading to Imperial Cuisine Pavilion, she was slightly surprised. He was really compensating dessert?
Unable to decipher Adam’s tricks, Bertha silently sat in the car.
The atmosphere in the car was strange.
Adam couldn’t help but find a topic, “Are you okay living in Kerry City? Has Oswald Lewis’s people stopped bothering you recently?”
“No.”
“How about in terms of living?”
“Quite good.”
“If you have any difficulties, you can tell .” Saying this, Adam felt inexplicably ashad and unnatural.
Bertha was also surprised to hear this, finally looking at Adam, seemingly unaware why she should tell him if she had difficulties.
And wasn’t her difficulty caused by him?
“Why are you looking at like that?” Unable to wait for Bertha’s answer, Adam felt uncomfortable being stared at and asked stiffly.
“Nothing.” Bertha replied unemotionally, dropping her eyes again.
Adam saw Bertha fall silent again, wanted to find a topic to talk about, but Bertha took out her phone and started reading the script.
This was a signal for him to shut up.
Despite having a bellyful of things he wanted to ask Bertha, Adam held back in the end.
The two barely managed to arrive smoothly at Imperial Cuisine Pavilion, and Adam secretly breathed a sigh of relief, while Bertha raised her head and followed him inside.
Adam had long reserved a private room, even the dishes were prepared in advance, just waiting for Bertha to eat. They bypassed the screen wall and followed the waiter to Adam’s exclusive private room, only to hear a commotion.
“What’s going on?” Adam’s face turned unpleasant, when did Imperial Cuisine Pavilion beco so noisy?
The waiter’s expression changed slightly, quickly answering respectfully to Adam, “Master Adam, I’ll ask right away.”
Not long after, the waiter returned. It was a small celebrity who brought her parents to try the cuisine at Imperial Cuisine Pavilion but ran into her arch-nesis. The troubleso part was that both had reserved the sa private room, just at different tis. Yet one arrived more than an hour early, sohow leading to an argunt.
“Don’t know the Imperial Cuisine Pavilion’s rules? When did your manager beco so lenient?” Adam questioned with slight annoyance.
“This…” The waiter glanced with difficulty at Bertha behind Adam.
Bertha noticed the waiter’s hesitation and frowned lightly, “Could it be related to her?”
“Why are you stuttering, out with it.” Adam, always impatient with others, naturally missed the waiter’s glance at Bertha, and urged unhappily.
The waiter helplessly spoke, “One of the won is Miss Thatcher.”
“What Miss Thatcher?” Adam didn’t respond imdiately.
The waiter was amazed; this gentleman really had a bad heart. Just a few days ago, he was dating soone, and today he’s not only changed female companions but doesn’t even rember who the previous one was.
The situation was slightly awkward.
But it was Bertha Swift, standing behind Adam Piers, who suddenly let out a light snort. Adam turned around to look at her, his mind suddenly filled with the image of Zoe Thatcher, only then realizing who the waiter was talking about. He hurriedly explained to Bertha, “Miss Thatcher and I are not in the kind of relationship you think we are.”
“I didn’t think anything,” Bertha quickly retorted to Adam, then added as if she rembered sothing, “Your relationship with her has nothing to do with .”
Saying this, Bertha even took a step back, as if to avoid suspicion.
The Imperial Cuisine Pavilion was built in a garden style, and when Bertha took a step back, she happened to step into the shadows of the pavilion. Adam was left speechless by her rebuke and was about to say sothing more to make ands when a familiar female voice suddenly rang out from behind him, “Adam!”
Adam froze, turned around, and saw Zoe Thatcher, who sohow spotted him and suddenly ran over in the middle of an argunt with soone.
Zoe hadn’t expected to et Adam at this ti, her excited eyes sparkling with light. Before Adam could react, she suddenly stepped forward and linked her arm with his.
Because he was tense about Bertha, Adam was completely unprepared for Zoe to grab his arm. His face didn’t look good at all, and his first instinct was to shake Zoe off, but she happened to grab his injured arm, seemingly anticipating his move and holding on tightly.
Adam couldn’t shake her off, and his face darkened even more. The waiter beside him was stunned, and out of the corner of his eye, he unconsciously glanced at Bertha Swift, who was completely ignored in the shadows, recalling Adam’s earlier statent, “Miss Thatcher and I are not in the kind of relationship you think.”
But right now…
The slap in the face ca way too fast!
The waiter looked between Bertha and Zoe, feeling secondhand embarrassnt for Adam. What kind of love triangle showdown was this!
Adam was evidently thinking the sa thing. His expression darkened as he was about to ask Zoe to let go, but then Zoe whispered a plea, “Master Adam, please help , that’s my cousin, we’ve always been at odds since we were kids. Last ti there were rumors about us, and she’s been mocking overtly and covertly, saying I’m daydreaming. Today, she deliberately embarrassed my parents at the Imperial Cuisine Pavilion, begging for help, they say saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda…”
“Zoe, is that man beside you Master Adam? How is it possible that the young master of the Piers family would fancy soone from a down-and-out household like you… impossible!”
Just as Adam was impatiently going to push Zoe away, another envious, jealous, and hateful voice sounded. Adam furrowed his brows even tighter and had run out of patience, turning to the waiter, “Remove her.”
The waiter said a few words into his walkie-talkie, and suddenly, several people in security uniforms appeared, dragging Zoe’s cousin away.
The cousin was unwilling, being dragged away while listing Zoe’s terrible deeds, and at that mont, Zoe’s parents, who had been following the cousin, also erged. Seeing Zoe linking arms with Adam, they were excited yet seemingly in disbelief, “Zoe, is this your boyfriend?”
Zoe was about to say sothing when the man beside her, having reached the limit of his patience, flung Zoe off.
The motion was too big, causing Zoe to stumble and fall to the ground. Her parents rushed over, previously timid due to Adam’s status, now filled with anger, “How can you do this to our Zoe?”
“Yeah, you’re supposedly her boyfriend, aren’t you? Even if your family background is good, you can’t do this to our Zoe!”
“Mom, Dad, I…” Zoe wanted to explain, but seeing Adam’s cold expression made her feel wronged and choke up a bit, which made the Moses couple feel even more heartbroken for their daughter, looking at Adam with increasingly accusatory eyes.
But Adam seed not to see or hear what they were doing or saying, his heart completely focused on the woman in the shadows behind him, “Bertha, listen to , there’s really nothing between her and .”
Bertha, having watched the show, looked at him with icy cold eyes, “Why bother explaining to ? I’m not even related to you.”
“Bertha…”
“And how many tis have I told you, don’t call Bertha.” Bertha interrupted Adam unhappily, then looked at the stunned waiter, “Aren’t you going to show the way?”
The waiter snapped out of the iconic scene and hurriedly made a respectful gesture for Bertha to follow.
Bertha calmly followed.
Adam wasn’t sure if Bertha was angry, completely ignoring the family, and was about to chase after Bertha when Mr. Moses suddenly grabbed him, “How can you treat our Zoe like this? Our Zoe is such a good girl, how can you be two-timing, you… you’re too much!”
Adam was already on the verge of fury, and not kicking Mr. Moses aside wasn’t due to Piers family upbringing but fear of leaving Bertha with another impression of him as arrogant. He clung to his patience, mockingly looking at Zoe, “Two-timing? Zoe, today I gave you this opportunity out of respect for our past acquaintance. Don’t test my patience.”
Zoe was struck by the coldness in Adam’s eyes, and her body shivered uncontrollably. She then pulled her father’s hand, holding onto Adam, “Dad, you’ve got it wrong, Master Adam and I are just ordinary friends, not boyfriend and girlfriend. I was just in a mont of panic…”
“Zoe, don’t try to fool Dad, you’re clearly with him…”
“Dad!”
Mr. Moses was about to say sothing when Zoe shouted at him, and she wanted to explain a few words to Adam, but the mont her father let go, Adam had already been striding away, clearly going after Bertha.
Thinking back to when she asked Adam for help, and Bertha stood in the shadows behind Adam, witnessing the scene so clearly, Zoe’s youthful and pretty face was filled with embarrassnt.
She didn’t understand how Adam, such a proud man, could completely lose his principles in front of Bertha, who clearly wasn’t interested in him at all…
“Zoe, Zoe… my silly child, don’t be sad. Such a man isn’t worth it.” Mrs. Moses quietly consoled after Adam had left and Zoe’s gaze was still trailing after him.
Zoe snapped back to reality, “Mom, Dad, I’m not lying to you. There’s really nothing between us, I just said that to not lose to my cousin earlier.”
“Sigh, you still want to fool Mom and Dad? You think we haven’t seen the news?” Mrs. Moses sighed after she finished speaking.
Mr. Moses had regained his composure, but there was still resentnt in his eyes. However, as he watched Adam leave, his gaze gradually beca complicated.
In the front, Adam caught up with Bertha, wanting to explain sothing, but Bertha waved her hand to interrupt him, “I’m not interested in your affairs, what your relationship is with her, I don’t want to know either.”
“Ber… Bertha Swift, are you angry?” Adam was about to call her Bertha, but considering her attitude, he quickly changed it to Bertha Swift.
Indeed, when Zoe linked arms with Adam, Bertha had a mont of anger, but she quickly cald down. What did Adam being with soone else have to do with her now?
Their engagent was long over, and there was no longer a child between them. Even when she transferred that three million to Adam before, whatever little affection she had left was obliterated, and the two of them were at most familiar strangers now.
“Why should I be angry?” Bertha, who had already adjusted her emotions, blandly asked Adam back.
Adam was stumped by the question, “But you…” Aren’t you jealous?
“It’s nothing,” Adam answered halfway, realizing Bertha’s indifferent expression, suddenly understanding that the words she said the other day were true. She might have been moved by him, once held affection for him, but after being hurt by him repeatedly, she had already let go.
Coming to terms with this, Adam swallowed the words he was about to say, awkwardly saying nothing, then called the waiter to serve the food, though the al was eaten in utter silence.
Adam initially thought Bertha agreeing to have a al with him was a good start for them, but he didn’t expect it to beco worse because of Zoe.
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