Female Novel
Chapter 1869
As such, Ian sounded even frostier as he bit out, “Oh, really? I couldn’t tell.”
Yulia would have to be an ignoramus to miss the hostility in his tone. She had been in theentertainment industry long enough to sense that a conversation was about to take a sour turn, so shebegan to explain with implication, “Wel, I only called to tell you that the director and I were talking aboutyou for a bit, but otherwise, it was a pleasant coincidence seeing you.”
He went along with her friendly front as he muttered flatly, “Yes, a coincidence indeed. Didn’t think I’drun into you there.”
Without wasting any more time on small talk, she decided to put a halt to what she was about to tellhim, given his defensive attitude at the moment. As such, she made a breezy remark about wanting tocheck on him and see how he was doing, then hung up the phone after claiming that she meantnothing more by this phone call.
When the call had ended, Cindy let out a displeased scoff. “And here I thought she was being annoyingwhen she acted all high and mighty with us, but now that she isn’t, I find her even more irritating thanbefore.”
This cheered Ian up in record time. Grinning, he placated, “Okay, let’s forget about this, shall we? Nopoint dwelling on it.”
She pursed her lips and did not retort, after which the both of them resumed their meal.
While eating, Cindy could no longer resist making a sharp remark or two and her voice was like ice this
time. “You know, I saw her driving over to the set today and I didn’t think it was her at first. The sportscar she was driving was flashy and she looked pretty good in her attire. In fact, don’t you think shelooked different today than she usually does?”
Ian hadn’t noticed what Yulia was wearing today and he paused when he heard Cindy’s rant. “Did shedress differently? I didn’t notice. What was she wearing?”
Upon hearing this, Cindy felt the knot in her stomach loosen. novelbin
She believed him when he said he hadn’t noticed the way Yulia dressed today because he normallywouldn’t lie about things like this. As such, her tight expression softened as she mumbled, “Forget it,then. There’s no point telling you what she was wearing; you weren’t paying enough attention tounderstand.”
With that, she went on with her meal, seemingly appeased. Ian, on the other hand, looked up and kepthis gaze on her for a moment, then smiled indulgently.
He didn’t think soothing a girl’s riled-up feelings was particularly difficult. It wasn’t a circus trick and oneonly needed to know the right things to say and do.
He thought this side of Cindy to be endearing. She used to be above all this, but now that he had seenher jealousy and her overprotectiveness, he found it heartwarming.
They ate their meal in comfortable silence before they sat together on the couch to watch television. Atthis moment, Ian’s phone rang again and it really was Simon this time.
Ian begrudgingly wondered what was so important that Simon felt compelled to repeatedly call him. Not
wanting to dodge any more phone calls, Ian answered, “Hello?”
Simon considerably relaxed on the other line when he heard Ian’s voice. When he spoke, he soundedfar more courteous than he had ever been with Ian. “Ian,” he greeted. “Are you busy right now?”
Ian did not answer and instead demanded, “What do you want? I don’t have time for this.”
Simon couldn’t blame Ian for sounding so unfriendly. After all, theirs had never been an amicablerelationship and he remembered how he had given Ian a hard time back in the day. As things were, hecould do nothing but tolerate Ian’s hostility, maintaining a mild tone as he asked, “I need to talk to youabout something. Are you free right now?”
As Ian wasn’t feeling very charitable, he answered pointedly, “No.”
Choking on his words, Simon suddenly fell silent.
Ian waited for a response, but when he heard nothing from the other end, he bit out somberly, “If it’snothing important, then I’ll be hanging up now. I’m really busy here.”
Hesitation washed over Simon, but knowing he had to be thick-skinned about this, he finally said,“Actually, I do need to talk to you about something important right now.”
Unable to keep the sarcasm out of his tone, Ian drawled, “So, why don’t you cut to the chase? Let’s seewhat this important business is that you simply must talk to me about and I’ll think about not hangingup.”
Simon audibly drew in a deep breath. It could very well be that he refused to stand for Ian’s arrogance,but he had no choice other than to swallow his pride.