Female Novel
Chapter 1681
Soon enough, Aurora finished washing up and headed out after changing her clothes. Ian waitedaround in the living hall without turning the television on, but he scrolled through his phone on thecouch.
Cindy tossed and turned in bed for a long while after he had left the room. She had the urge to punchherself—she was supposed to be afraid and alert when sharing the same bed with Ian, yet she hadallowed herself to relax to a point where she rolled over and hugged him. I can’t believe Ian even foundout about it! How am I supposed to face him from now on?
After lying in bed for a while longer, she decided that it was getting late. She got up to listen to thenoises outside the room, but she realized that it was completely silent in the hall. Even the televisionwasn’t turned on. Did Ian and Aurora go out already? Finally, Cindy gathered the courage to open thedoor.
When she saw the person sitting in the hall, she jolted in surprise. Ian was sitting on the couch and in aspot directly facing his room. He raised his head to stare at her the moment she opened the door. Bothof them exchanged glances, but she couldn’t register his reaction as she was too shocked. All sheknew was that she had shuddered for a moment before an awkward look spread across her face. novelbin
“You’re awake,” he stated with a smile.
“Mhmm.” Cindy quickly looked around the living room. “Where’s Aurora? Is she still asleep?” Cindythought that she had heard Aurora’s voice when she was in the room earlier.
“She went out to buy breakfast,” Ian replied with his gaze still fixed on Cindy. She tried her best to
control her expression as she nodded and walked to the washroom. He continued staring at her, andhe only looked away once she shut the door behind her. With his lips curled into a smirk, he placed hisphone in his palm and flipped it. She looked as if she saw a ghost when she came out and saw me.That’s hilarious! He laughed to himself.
As Cindy cleaned herself up in the washroom, Ian stepped into the room with the intention of tidying thebed a little. However, he realized that the bed had been made when he went in. He turned around tostep out of the room when he heard the sound of a phone vibrating. It was Cindy’s phone—she had leftit by the side of the bed.
He lowered his gaze and glanced at the phone for a while. In the end, he decided to walk over and lookat her notifications on the screen. Just like the last time, he could read her messages without having tounlock her phone. This time, it was also a WhatsApp message from Peter. Peter was asking Cindy ifshe was free. He had typed a longer message after that, but the notification had a word limit that didn’tshow Ian the full message.
After thinking about it for a while, Ian left Cindy’s phone in its spot before he walked out of the room.When Cindy was done washing up, Aurora returned home. Cindy hastily headed to the room to pickher phone up, and she saw Peter’s message right away. ‘Are you free now? I’d like to meet up with youright now,’ the text said. Peter even mentioned that he was already waiting for her downstairs.
When Cindy checked the timestamp, she realized that Peter had only sent the text a while ago. Sheimmediately responded to explain that she had just woken up. Within seconds, Peter responded withanother text that said he would wait for her downstairs. Since that was the case, Cindy would have toskip breakfast to meet him.
She got herself ready before she went out of the room to inform Aurora and Ian of her plans. “I’m
heading downstairs for a while, but I’ll be back really soon. You guys can eat without waiting for me,”she uttered.
Ian didn’t need an explanation to know what was going on—he was certain that she was going down tomeet Peter. Ian had been about to sit down by the dining table, but he stood upright after he heardwhat Cindy said. “I’ll go down with you,” he offered.
She quickly waved him off. “It’s fine, I can go on my own. I’ll be back in a short while.”
Ian knitted his brows, but Cindy couldn’t be bothered at that point. She headed out the door right aftershe wore her shoes. Aurora had no idea what was going on, so she turned to look at Ian. “What’s therush? Did something happen?”
He pressed his lips into a thin line and remained silent for a long while before he spoke to his mother.“I’ll go down for a while,” he muttered.
Meanwhile, Cindy hurried downstairs to the gazebo by the side of their building. The gazebo wasn’t farfrom their unit, and Peter was waiting for her there. He was wearing a different set of clothes—he wasno longer dressed in the sports outfit that Cindy usually saw him in.