Chapter 2976 - 166: She Is Just a Shield, He Likes Someone Else (2)

Chapter 2976: Chapter 166: She Is Just a Shield, He Likes Someone Else (2)

She almost forgot to breathe, subconsciously holding her breath, nervously watching Ben Lucas open the lid.

Please don’t let it be a ring, a diamond ring, the young master could not be proposing to the other woman...

Harrison Lucas placed all his hopes on this moment of revelation.

She doesn’t wish for the young master to like her, doesn’t wish for him to be sincere with her, she only wishes Ben Lucas wouldn’t like another woman so much.

Do not propose to the other woman.

However, when the jewelry box lid was opened, the dazzling diamond ring lay there so quietly, even across the restaurant’s floor-to-ceiling windows, Harrison Lucas could see its radiant brilliance under the luxurious lights.

Young master... likes that woman... He proposed to her!

Harrison Lucas’s body couldn’t stop trembling, she forgot to breathe, forgot how to hide herself, she didn’t know why she was standing here, why she was present here in the first place.

She was just a joke, just a joke.

Suddenly, Harrison Lucas turned around, beside her was a bookstore that had already closed.

The shop inside was completely dark, but there were streetlights on the road outside. Harrison Lucas looked at her reflection in the bookstore’s glass, seeing her own reflection clearly in the window.

Compared to the beautiful and alluring woman in the French restaurant across the street, Harrison Lucas was nothing short of a man.

The woman in the mirror had short hair, rigid black, completely different from the other’s soft wavy chestnut long hair.

And her face, without makeup, Harrison Lucas didn’t even have any lipstick, wearing a man’s thick overcoat, making her look devoid of any feminine curves.

Thinking about that woman in the restaurant next door who took off her overcoat, revealing a curvaceous figure outlined by a red dress, Harrison Lucas felt even more tragic.

In the past, worried about her true identity being discovered, Harrison Lucas wished she was like a real man.

But in this moment, she hated herself so much, hated this androgynous version of herself.

Harrison Lucas couldn’t stay here any longer, even if it was just across the street, seeing Ben Lucas and that woman’s bright figures made her feel stinging pain.

Harrison Lucas took a deep breath, bit her lower lip, forcibly holding back her grief as she quickly left.

...

Inside the restaurant, Ben Lucas seemed to spot a familiar silhouette passing under the streetlight across the road.

His deep gaze passed through the floor-to-ceiling windows towards the opposite street.

"Jordan, what are you looking at?"

The woman sitting across from him noticed his distraction and gently asked.

Ben Lucas snapped back to reality, letting out a small laugh: "It’s nothing, it must have been a mistake."

Debby always listens to him the most; he told her to rest at the hotel, she naturally won’t be here.

...

A little later, after escorting the woman who dined with him tonight home, Ben Lucas returned to the hotel.

When he swiped the card to open the hotel room door, the entire room was pitch black with the lights off, just like the previous days.

Ben Lucas knew Harrison Lucas must have already gone to sleep.

He walked quietly into the bedroom without turning on the lights, just like before, taking off his overcoat and entering the bathroom to shower, before coming out with a body full of moisture.

Ben Lucas was used to situations like this; he wore his bathrobe to bed, subconsciously reaching to his side, wanting to hold Harrison Lucas in his arms.

However, his large hand reached over and touched a cold patch.

Originally Harrison Lucas should have been there like the previous nights, sleeping obediently with her back to him, but now there was no one!

"Debby..." Ben Lucas’s eyes slightly sank, suddenly realizing something was wrong.

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