She paused and put on a bitter smile. "Matthew, you should know that Selina, she..." Natalie licked her dry lips and said, "She doesn't see you as..."
"I understand." Matthew said directly, "Natalie, there are some things that I can't tell you now. So, please help me out this time."
There was a flash of hesitation in Natalie's eyes.
What was wrong with Matthew?
After a while, Natalie agreed.
She had known Matthew for a long time, and she also knew that Matthew was a person who knows what he's doing. He would definitely not try anything silly. At noon, Natalie asked Selina to go out for a meal.
She thought that she could use this as an excuse to get Selina to the restaurant, and she would then get Matthew to come to the restaurant too.
However, Selina instantly rejected her.
She said that she had no appetite.
Natalie then suggested to go for dinner instead.
Selina put down the book in her hand. "Natalie, I haven't had a good appetite recently. I just want to have some quiet time and read some books here.
I don't feel like going anywhere."
Natalie was dazed.
She started to sense that there was something wrong with Selina.
After thinking for a while, she reckoned that it was because of her fight with Dylan.
She figured that it had already become the norm for Selina to act this way now, and that she would get better in no time. She didn't let it bother her further.
Natalie went downstairs and called Matthew.
She suggested for Matthew to come to their house instead.
"Matthew, at first, I was thinking of asking Selina out, so that you could meet her. However, she refused to leave the house. So, why don't you just come over instead? It would be the same anyway, you guys can still talk here."
There was a moment of silence.
"Okay." Matthew replied.
In the afternoon, Matthew arrived at the Whitlock family's villa.
chatting away with the caretaker on how to take
when she
now, and
was the first time she saw
put it? He looked a little worn out and gloomy, like
usually shiny
"Matthew." Natalie stood up.
Matthew forced
he was trying hard to put on a smile, and
Natalie's heart jolted.
wondered if Selina had done something silly and
to say something but
go look for her." Matthew interrupted
Natalie's gaze shifted slightly.
on the first floor. She's reading books
said
carried an
beating faster when he
outside the room.
a strange sense of
Matthew's gaze froze slightly.
going
why was he getting so edgy just at
back into reality and
There was no response.
There was total silence.
in there, he would have thought
tried to push the
the door was not
of the upper class. She sat in front of the desk and seemed to be reading a book. Her black hair was spread out, and it was shining with a faint luster under the light. Matthew's
He walked over.
seemed to have not noticed that Matthew had come in, her body was
that Selina was actually reading the book when he stood in
A world-famous book.
"Pride and Prejudice."
was on the book, seriously skimming through the
and he immediately
not turned
Austen's novel is very good."
Selina's body shook.
at him with disgust. "What are
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