Chapter 998 

Richard nodded. “When I was one year old, my father passed away and my mother remarried.” 

Angela‘s heart went out for him while she looked at him. She was born in a happy family and her parents showered her with unreserved love. As she compared him to herself, her heart ached to know his past. 

“Sorry. I shouldn‘t have asked.” She regretted in a worry that it might remind him of bad memories. 

“You should ask to know me better before becoming my wife,” he said seriously. 

Words failed her as she thought, Why am I suddenly becoming your wife? We aren‘t even going out yet

“Cut it out.” She bit her lips and stared out of the window with cheeks tinged with red. Now that Annie and his engagement was called off, the worries in Angela‘s head dispelled, but she could not act recklessly either. 

“It‘s just a matter of time before it happens.” Richard was certain as he took a glimpse of her with confidence. 

Meanwhile, she did not reciprocate to it because she did not know how to. At that moment, he parked the car near a bustling park. “Let‘s take a walk.” 

Angela nodded and alighted from the car as well. Unlike the arctic mountains, it was quite warm in the city. Although it was the beginning of the winter, the temperature was not that low and the ambience lingered with remnant crumbs of late autumn. 

After she took merely two steps forward, the man held her hand at which she attempted to shake him off. However, it was a futile endeavor due to his strength, so she just let him be in the end. Whenever there were crowds, he even wrapped his arm around her shoulders like couples did. 

“Wanna drink something?” he asked. 

to see a coffee shop. “I want some brewed coffee. Let‘s have one

for you.” He

upright figure striding toward the coffee shop; the tight knitwear and black pants displayed the alluring yet sturdy outline of his broad shoulders and slim waist under the streetlights in the park.

had returned to the moment when she first

in his hands and she took one of them. To have a stroll in a park with a warm and tantalizing coffee in the onset of winter was a delight

of them kept quiet while rounding the park; the ambiguous atmosphere lingering around them felt better

while, Richard piped up, “My grandfather wishes to

in shock. “Did you tell him about us?”

told him that I have someone I like and he wants me to bring her to him

yet. Let‘s talk about it later.” She recalled the dinner she had tonight and the discussion shared between Jennifer

words indicated that it would be better for her to stay away from this man for now. Otherwise, Daphne would be a joke

eyes and he sighed. “Fine. We‘ll talk about it some other day. We‘re not in a rush for a marriage anyway.”

He wĹas talking about how much he wanted to marry me right away, but why is he saying

he could not level with her that he had another mission to undertake, which would put his life on stake. Thus, he could not guarantee his safe return and

his arm around her shoulders.

on his mind, but he had no

hiding something from

the car, someone in a nearby vehicle was holding a camera facing them. Angela‘s face was in most

she had returned to the moment when she first

one of them. To have a stroll in a park with a warm and tantalizing coffee in

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