Your Guise Is Slipping, Miss Pearl

Chapter 1410

Esther laughed out loud. "James, what makes you think you have a right over me? I don't have to have dinner with you every day. You always use your mom to threaten me. But let's put that aside for now. Why are you asking me to have dinner with you today?"

James calmly took out his phone. "My mom wants you to come over for dinner today."

Esther slumped, feeling beaten. "Fine, James. You win this one. Can you please stop bothering me now? I've already told you, we're done."

"I'm not trying to get back together with you. I'm just following my mom's wishes and asking you to come over for dinner."

Esther felt a pang of bitterness when she heard that. She stubbornly replied, "If you're not trying to win me back and you don't really mean it, why should I go to your house for dinner? Tell your mom it's not appropriate for me, alright? Let go. I want to go home now."

But James made no move to leave. "If you think it's about your status, I could marry you right now."

at him in disbelief. "No, James. Are you crazy? Didn't you

understand perfectly. I'm serious. I'm offering you

cold, which was why Esther refused to be with him

had changed for the

her. She didn't know why, so she kept her distance. But he kept asking her

for your company. Stop talking to me like this. Do you understand?" Esther never thought he would become so

took a deep breath. "So, you're saying you don't want to go home with me?" "Yes, I don't want to. I've told you, it's not right

and tried to slam her car door. But James was stronger than she expected. She couldn't close the

"James!"

watch. "My mom wants us home by seven, and it's now half-past six. If we

I'll talk to your mom if you can't. We're not together anymore, and I don't need

just looked