No More Waiting, She Chooses Love

Chapter 144



He'd been seeking me out more than a few times, but this time, he actually showed up at my doorstep. "What's it this time?"

"I agreed," he said, those few words throwing me off a bit.

Agreed to what?

"Agreed to date you, be your temporary boyfriend," Ernest clarified.

Remembering how he had turned me down before, I was taken aback. "What made you change your mind?"

"If I didn't, you'd just go on these crazy blind dates, and do you really want to be followed home again like today?" Ernest's tone started with resignation but ended sharply.

In the dim light, seeing his unwilling yet compelled expression, I couldn't help but find it amusing. "Doesn't this go against your wishes? Won't you be unhappy?"

Ernest seemed to catch the teasing in my voice and took a step closer, prompting me instinctively to step back until the railing stopped me. I had nowhere to go.

His arm reached out, trapping me against the railing, and in an instant, my breathing quickened. "Ernest..."

"Going on blind dates, are you really that naive?" His voice was close to my ear.

and sent a

words were scolding, yet filled with an

move

and I fell into silence again, but this time it was different. I

arm. "Coming home

obediently responded

something occurred to

and thank you for agreeing

and unsure of what he was thinking, so

I took a step, I heard him say, "That

what if that

suddenly said, then reached

I was

Ernest: "Keys."

want to

me to

argue with that. He added, "It's not like we haven't

room before, and it

keys, and we went upstairs together, entering the

us, he said, "I'll sleep on the

barely a meter and a half long. How could Ernest,