“Mr. Lowry, if I’m not mistaken, we only met two or three times, didn’t we?” Janet inhaled sharply.
Mason drew nearer toward her with a smile and he suddenly wrapped his arm around her waist while inhaling the scent on her neck. The scent on the girl confirmed his suspicion. Therefore, he enunciated, “But, I have fallen in love with you at first sight, Miss J’Adore. What should I do?”
Upon hearing that, her eyes widened and she abruptly pushed him away.
She did not know that Mason was such a playboy.
Her voice was cold with a hint of jealousy that even she herself failed to notice. “Mr. Lowry, we are merely business partners, to be precise. Yet, you have fallen in love with me?” She then paused for a moment to raise her eyes and continued speaking in a neither humble nor arrogant tone. “If the information I have received is correct, you have a girlfriend whom you love dearly, right?”
He chuckled at her words, but his gaze was deep as he appraised her. Instead of answering her directly, he responded, “But, my feelings for you are genuine as well.” His thin lips parted, saying the most moving words in his low, husky voice. Yet, they made her heart sink.
The throbbing pain in her heart spread through her body, which numbed her arms and legs. He’s cheating on me and the other woman is also me. It turns out that Mason likes me when I’m wearing a mask. Or, perhaps he has discovered that the person behind the mask is me? Maybe this situation today was arranged by him to expose my second identity?
Seeing that she was reticent and wore an appalled look on her face, he released her waist and whispered in her ear, “It’s my 26th birthday next Sunday. You will show up, right?”
The panicked Janet did not even realize what she had replied. “Yes.”
Upon hearing that, Mason chuckled before he suddenly opened his mouth and bit her tender neck.
She hissed in pain and attempted to push him away in that instant, but he bit harder. He murmured into her ear and repeated those three words, “You little liar… You little liar.”
Before Janet could react, Mason placed the ring and necklace in her hand and left. She was rooted on the spot for a few seconds while she watched blankly as the man left. Little liar? Does this mean that he has known for a long time that I am J’Adore? Could it be that he intentionally said those words to anger me?
She lowered her eyes and looked at the ring as well as the necklace in her hands for a moment before she tightly clutched them.
Meanwhile, Sean, who had been following Mason, recalled the exciting scene earlier and chuckled. “Miss Jackson was full of jealousy earlier.”
It was the first time that he saw Janet losing her composure.
Mason’s gaze deepened as he scoffed, “The little liar would rather be jealous than to tell me the truth on the spot.”
As a matter of fact, it did not matter whether she chose to tell him or not since any explanation she gave when they returned home would be futile in front of the bite mark. Nevertheless, he kind of enjoyed seeing her struggle when she tried to explain. I wonder how she is going to explain the bite mark when we return.
On the other hand, Janet stood rooted to the place while watching the man’s back view. The prickling pain on her neck constantly reminded her that everything that happened was not a dream.
Beep. Beep. Beep. Her phone suddenly rang.
Janet tapped on the phone’s screen display and accepted the call. “Where are you? I will head over to look for you guys.”
“In the washroom.”
She kept her phone away in a swift movement that revealed her indifference.
When she arrived in the washroom, she removed her mask and let out a sigh.
There was a gleam in Lara’s eyes as she stared at Janet and asked, “He couldn’t have recognized you, could he?”
