Chapter 20. Give Her a Room

Does he think that just because he’s rich, he doesn’t actually have to be a nice person too? No. Chuck is nice and fun, Scarlett thought to herself. Why was Francis behaving like this?

Scarlett turned away, pulled out her cell phone from her bag, and started to play games. “You can’t drink at dinner.” All of a sudden, Francis broke the silence and commanded. Scarlett was not sure who he was talking to. “What?”

Francis closed his eyes for a moment and said, “I won’t take you home if you are drunk again.”

Scarlett pinched her thigh to vent her anger; her desire to jump out of the moving car got even stronger. But she had to fake a smile. She said, “Well, I won’t drink.”

Mr. Sandler’s secretary, who was sitting in the front seat, was hearing all this back and forth. The secretary felt like she wanted to do a real-time broadcast about her boss’s love story. It would be titled: “How My Icy Boss Melted For A University Student,"

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