148: Chapter 148 Very Fresh 148: Chapter 148 Very Fresh They played until Twelve O’Clock when everyone began to prepare to leave.
Knowing they would drink, those with cars didn’t drive.
Only lody Yoody had a driver, but not wanting to flaunt her leadership status, she had let the car wait for her and was now joining everyone else in hailing a cab ho.
Out of respect for their leader, the first taxi they stopped was for lody Yoody.
With so many classmates, it wasn’t convenient for Jas Brown and lody Yoody to share a ride, so lody got into the cab with two other girls and waved goodbye to everyone.
Jas Brown and Emily Johnson were the last to hail a cab.
Except for the driver, it was just the two of them.
“Jas, you and lody…” David Johnson probed tentatively.
Jas Brown chuckled and replied, “Nothing much, just catching up on old tis.”
“Oh, that’s good then.
I was afraid you’d fall for her again.”
“How could that happen?”
Jas Brown smiled, but he felt an unexplainable sensation in his heart.
When they were younger, he’d managed to woo lody Yoody with tricks and sweet talk.
But now, it seed lody had taken the initiative, leaving him completely passive.
Before seeing lody Yoody, his heart yearned for her, to the point he dared not even look at her.
But upon actually seeing her, he felt an instinctive resistance.
This feeling was inexplicable, and even Jas Brown couldn’t understand it.
By status, although lody was a township chief, Jas Brown’s rank, when considered properly, was much higher than just a division-level cadre.
If it ca to background, now that he was retired from Hawk Squad, if he wanted to get sothing done, he could definitely converse with many of the heavyweights in the Capital of SSUP, sothing lody Yoody’s family background couldn’t compete with.
lody Yoody hadn’t changed; Jas Brown even felt that she now wanted to be with him more than before since she had grown up and could make decisions on her own.
But for Jas Brown, he felt he couldn’t interact with lody Yoody like he used to.
The distance between them had sohow beco so vast he couldn’t explain why.
Perhaps his years in Hawk Squad, facing life and death in an instant, had made him yearn for a more peaceful life, a stark difference from lody’s desire to see her husband beco a dragon.
Having returned ho, Jas Brown had just walked in when the phone rang with lody Yoody’s number.
He imdiately answered.
“Are you ho?”
“Just stepped through the door.
Are you ho too?” Jas Brown asked with a smile.
“I’m ho.
I’m considering whether to co over to your place right now.”
Jas felt a flutter in his heart and said, “You want to run out in the middle of the night?”
“I was thinking about it, you jerk.
You don’t know how much I’ve missed you all these years.”
Hearing this from lody Yoody, Jas Brown’s sense of distance from her vanished completely.
“Then co over.
I miss you too.”
“You want to co now?
Humph, I just won’t, just to spite you.”
That tone was exactly like when they were younger.
Jas Brown could even picture lody pouting with her proud and adorable expression, which made him laugh heartily.
“My Little Willow Johnson, co let big brother give you a kiss.
I’ll take good care of you.”
“No!
I won’t!
If you’re so capable, co and catch .
If you catch , I’ll let you kiss .”
“Then I’m coming.”
They both burst into laughter at the sa ti.
This was a ga they had played countless tis in their youth, with lody Yoody initially refusing, but always succumbing to Jas’s persistent wooing in the end.
“Jas, while I was sitting in the car, I thought about what you said.
You’re right, we’ve been apart for too long.
Although our feelings haven’t changed, our lifestyles are indeed very different.
Whether we can adapt is really a question.
If we end up hurting each other, it might be better to retain this beautiful mory as it is.”
Listening to lody Yoody’s earnest tone, Jas Brown replied, “Thank you, lody, for being so open-minded.
If I didn’t want to be with you, I wouldn’t have said all this.”
“Mhm, judging by that, you’ve really matured.
You’re no longer that impulsive young boy.
I’m quite pleased with this.
So, I’ll give you the chance to pursue again.
Let’s start over.
How does that sound?”
“Great, chasing after Township Chief Smith is like achieving a ‘loser’s counterattack’ for .
If our classmates saw their Goddess being pursued by a loser like , I wonder if they’d regret not making a move themselves.
So, the Mayor isn’t that hard to chase after all?”
“Get lost, keep dreaming!
I’m allowing you to pursue , so you better show so sincerity.
Don’t think I’m going to give you an easy ti because of our past.”
“Isn’t that a bit harsh?
Look at young couples nowadays; they all try living together first.
Maybe we could give that a go.”
“Nice, you jerk, showing your true colors as a wolf at last.
You took advantage of when I was seventeen, then left nonchalantly, causing my parents to beat rcilessly.
Do you still want to take advantage of ?
It won’t be that easy.”
Jas Brown awkwardly laughed, “I ca back to make it up to you, didn’t I?
Won’t you give a chance?”
“Humph, sounds nice.
Weren’t you just talking about trying marriage?”
lody Yoody’s eloquence had beco more and more formidable, and Jas Brown was finding it increasingly hard to cope, so he could only offer a wry smile and say, “All right, my dear little aunt, have it your way.”
“There, that’s better.
Behave well and I’ll reward you,” lody Yoody’s tone suddenly turned suggestive.
Jas Brown’s heart fluttered and he said, “lody, you really know how to reel soone in now.
You’ve completely captured my soul.”
“I want to seduce you, and then leave you wanting.
I’ll drive you crazy.”
“That’s really too cruel.”
“Hmph, there’s crueler yet.
Ah, my mom’s coming.
I can’t talk now.”
Having said that, lody Yoody promptly hung up the phone.
Jas Brown put away his phone, a sweet smile erging from his heart, the kind he never had with any other woman, since he had always believed that lody Yoody was the only one in his heart.
Now, he experienced that feeling of first love once more.
The next morning, Jas Brown received another call from lody Yoody.
Even though it was brief, her tone was full of endearnt.
She told Jas to pursue her, but in reality, she was even more proactive than he was.
Jas knew that lody didn’t want their difference in status to make him feel any sense of inferiority, hence her initiative.
After getting up and getting ready, there was a knock on the door.
Jas didn’t need to look to know it must be Lucy Campbell.
With so many surveillance devices upstairs and downstairs, it was easy for her to know he had returned ho last night.
Opening the door, indeed, there was Lucy, dressed casually in howear, her face adorned with a sweet smile that would drive any man wild.
“Just got back and here you are, coming over for a al?” Jas Brown said with a laugh as he let Lucy in.
Lucy made herself at ho in Jas’s place, casually sitting down on the sofa and said with a chuckle, “Why settle for less when there’s good food to be had?”
Jas had long been accustod to Lucy’s brazen food mooching habits.
As he set out to fry so eggs, he thought of Emily Jenkins and said, “Where’s Emily?
Why hasn’t she co over?”
“She flew out early yesterday morning.”
“Oh, then I can make one less portion.”
Jas had seen Emily less frequently these days.
When he was ho, Emily was out flying, and she would only return when he was at Gina Lopez’s place.
Breakfast was quickly prepared, and as Jas and Lucy sat down to eat across from each other, Lucy, after eating an egg, sipped her milk and said, “Can you go out with again today?”
“What’s it this ti?”
“Since you weren’t at ho these past few days, a lot of things have piled up.”
“Miss Smith, don’t tell that you stop working when I’m not around?”
“In YODC City, definitely,” Lucy answered casually.
“You really…” Jas furrowed his brow.
Quickly, Lucy said, “Don’t be mad, okay?
I’m not forcing you to help .
It’s just that given my status, I’d rather not go out with an entourage, and besides, the matters aren’t all that pressing, so I waited for you.”
“Alright, for the sake of the cigarettes you brought , I’ll agree, but…
can you not just walk into my house whenever I’m gone in the future?”
Lucy t Jas’s gaze, sensing that he was genuinely bothered by this and imdiately said with a smile, “Sorry.
The last few days, I went back to the Capital of SSUP several tis.
I was worried you’d run out of cigarettes and I didn’t know when you’d be back, so I just ca over without your permission.
Please forgive .”
Jas had not expected Lucy to apologize, and considering that her intentions were genuinely good, he felt sowhat petty.
Hurriedly he said, “It’s no big deal.
I was mistaken, thinking you were abusing your status and completely overlooking .
If anyone should say sorry, it’s .
I wronged your kind intentions.”
Lucy’s smile brightened up, “There aren’t many n like you who are brave enough to admit their mistakes.”
Jas laughed, “Is that considered a virtue?”
“It is, at least compared to those arrogant n I’ve t, you’re much better.”
With a hearty laugh, Jas let go of the slight gripe he had with Lucy.
That morning, Jas once again beca Lucy’s ‘cousin’, an understated wealthy scion, and they both got into Lucy’s car.
As she revealed the first thing she wanted to do, Jas was left speechless—it turned out she wanted to sign a contract with Gina Lopez.
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