A Moment in Destiny

Chapter 280 The Hibernating Leopard

Leila felt suffocated. As she was holding her breath, she seemed to have heard Vincent’s ragged gasp. She subconsciously looked at Vincent, and realized that he was staring at her. She suddenly panicked; her voice also started to tremble. “Sorry, I'm hanging up! That's your own business.” All text © NôvelD(r)a'ma.Org.

After she said that, she hung up the phone, looked at Vincent, and explained sheepishly, “It's just a friend!”

At the same moment, the phone rang again, and Leila was so scared that she almost jumped up.

Vincent remained silent; he did not say anything. He just held out his hand, signaling that he wanted her to hand over the phone.

Leila was nervous. “It's really just a friend whom came back from Australia not long ago!”

‘Hand it over!” He said in a deep voice.

He had already stood up; his long arm reached over and took the phone directly from her hand. He then looked at the number and answered the phone. Since he also pressed the speaker button, Leila was able to hear Theodore’s voice.

“Leila, I still like you… just give both of us a chance! I really like you.”

Leila raised her head in a panic, she wanted to stop Theodore from taking nonsense. However, as soon as she opened her mouth, she heard Vincent spoke in a deep voice, “Who are you?”

On the other end of the phone, Theodore seemed to be stunned, he then quickly hung up the phone.

After what just happened, Leila seemed to have an unexplainable feeling, she whispered, “It's a senior who was formerly from our school! I don't know how he knew my phone number!”

Vincent just put the phone on the table and raised his eyebrows. “The word ‘senior’ is a very flirty word!”

Leila’s was shocked, was he looking for trouble? If so, that was the thing that she was scared of.

“This man likes you! He’s confessing his love for you!”

“I don't know!”

“He had already confessed though the phone, both you and I heard it! Why are you still acting dumb?”

The sentence that he has said was the main point. Leila, who has never been very logical, suddenly realized, he was angry because of Theodore’s sudden confession. However, who knew that he would suddenly come out and say that to her, even though he did have feelings for her in the past, but it had already been three years and times had changed.

It's just that she did not understand. Vincent obviously did not love her; he did not even like her. However, he still could not let her go, it should be because he wanted to maintain his reputation, “Then what do you want?”

She looked up at him and saw the mockery through his eyes… mocking at her as if he did not care about her.

“I'm wondering if I've been too tolerant towards you!” It was now that he squatted down, a cold smile could be seen on Vincent’s handsome face.

Leila frowned. “Tolerant?!”

She really did not know how he dared to say that word, “He really is just my senior, but you should also have juniors, right? The word ‘juniors’ is also a very flirty word to use, it’s even flirtier than the word ‘senior’. You are also a flirtatious person, both literally and figuratively. For example, you always have a

woman by your side. Even if this person likes me, so what? You are also liked by many people, right? The only difference between you and I is, I am still performing the duties of marriage while you are not!” Leila suddenly felt some heaviness in her heart. She raised her eyes, secretly sighed with relief, and slowly spoke the words in her heart. “So, if you want to pick a fight with me, I can only say the innocent will always able to prove oneself! I have nothing to be guilty of!”

He did not say anything. After being silent for a long time, he put out the cigarette in his hand with his finger, threw it into the cigarette holder, and laughed teasingly, “How can you claim innocent if you are already not a virgin!”

Being scolded by him in such a straightforward manner, Leila felt sad and embarrassed. While his sharp eyes, staring straight at her face, seemed to be hiding something. “An unchaste woman dared to say that she is innocent in front of me, what a joke!”

“It's quite funny. You’re right, I'm not a virgin anymore, so what, do you regret it? If you think I am already a virgin, why did you still do it to me? And more than once!” She stood up, wanting to go upstairs immediately, but had to hold back and restrain herself, “I don't want to fight with you, because we are both highly educated people, and fighting only makes us more and more childish!”

She lowered her head and suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.

Vincent sneered and said, “You think I want to quarrel with you?!”

“Then what do you want?”

The phone rang again.

Leila subconsciously looked at the phone on the table.

But Vincent’s gaze remained on her face, sharp as a tack.

“Are you going to answer? Why aren’t you answering it?” He gave a cold snort. “That person really liked you!”

Leila’s heart ached, she grabbed the phone and pressed the answer button. The speaker button was still remained turned on, and she heard Theodore’s voice came from the other end of the phone, “Leila, is that you?”

Leila spoke indifferently. “Theodore, please don't call me again, do you know it's almost ten o'clock, we need to rest, I'm sorry, I'm hanging up!”

“Leila, who was that man just now?” The person on the other side of the phone did not care if she hung up or not.

“My husband!” She said calmly.

Vincent’s eyes flashed when he heard what she called him, but he still stared at her viciously.

“Leila, I still really like you! You don't need to lie and say that you're married, you haven't graduated yet, how can you possibly get married?”

“I never liked you!” These merciless words were spoken out, Leila continued saying, “To me, Theodore is just a senior, that's all. It the same as three years ago, and it will continue to be so three years later! Also, I'm really married. Weather you believe it or not!”

She hung up the phone again and looked up at Vincent. “I can go upstairs now, right?”

Vincent did not say anything and left her to go upstairs, leaving Leila alone, frozen there, not moving for a long time.

Midnight.

She heard the sound of thumping downstairs, and then the sound of a car engine starting.

The next morning, Leila got up and did not see Vincent, nor did she know where he had gone. She felt upset.

But then she thought, she had not done anything wrong to Vincent, so why would she be upset? She was righteous, so why should she care?

Everything that was on the table last night was still there, no one moved it.

Those dishes, was cooked by him. She sat down at the table, looked down at the red wine he had not finished last night. She then looked at these dishes, picked up the chopsticks, and ate sullenly.

Overseas Chinese Affairs.

Today was Friday. After work, Leila intended to stay at the school dormitory, as she remembered that Vincent did not allow herself to call him, so she did not say anything. However, when she arrived at the school, she suddenly remembered that her thesis that she had written was in the computer, and that computer was missing.

She had to call again until his cold voice rang out on the other end, she was a little apprehensive, “I know I shouldn't call you, but I have my thesis written in my computer, can you give it back to me?”

After she finished speaking, she waited for his answer, only to hear the sound of his breathing coming from the phone at the other end, and finally she heard him say, “Come and get it yourself from my exclusive suite in HJ Hotel!”

“Now?” She asked.

“Yes!” The phone was snapped shut and he had hung up the phone.

Leila took a deep breath and sighed. She took a taxi and went straight to HJ Hotel. As she just arrived downstairs and got out of the taxi, she met up with Julian, “Huh? Julian, it's you?”

Julian was slightly surprise. “Uh! It's you, Leila, what are you doing here?”

"Oh! I came to get a copy of something."

Julian seemed a little surprised. His eyes flickered, and loneliness could be seen. He then smiled again and spoke. “Going to the twenty-seventh floor?”

“Yeah, how do you know where I'm going?” She was shocked.

“Because I'm a God!” He laughed, but it was still hard to hide his despondency. “Go ahead, I have to go back to the press immediately! Let’s meet up when we’re free!”

“Alright!”

After saying that, he got onto the taxi that Leila had just gotten out of. He told the driver the address of his destination, and the taxi took off.

Leila stood at the entrance of the hotel building while feeling a little bit confused and puzzled. Why did Julian know she was going to the twenty-seventh floor? It was really strange. As she was shaking her head, she walked in.

After going up from the elevator and arriving on the twenty-seventh floor, she walked towards Vincent’s exclusive suite. She walked to the doorway, took a deep breath, but hesitated to knock on the door. At the same moment, the door was opened.

His handsome face just appeared in the door, in front of her.

“Where is my computer?” Although she was a little surprised that he suddenly opened the door, but she immediately talked after she was shocked for a while. She just wanted to take the computer and leave immediately.

He moved away as a signal for her to come in.

Leila had to walk in. This was still the same room, the last time she was here, she had massaged him for two hours and accompanied him to rest here for a few hours.

Her eyes subconsciously looked around, but she did not see her computer, “Where's my computer?”

“It's not here!” He replied.

“Why did you make me come here for if it's not here?” She was a little dumbfounded, feeling that he had fooled her again.

“I just wanted you to come here for nothing!” He spoke disdainfully.

“You're really shameless!”

“You are right! I am not a gentleman in the first place!”

“Vincent!”

“I know my name is Vincent!” He gave a wicked cold hum. “By the way, did you have your period?”

“You…” She was shocked by his question and her face turned red. “You're a hooligan!”

"Yeah, I am a fucking hooligan towards you! Is that any problem?” He sounded like he did not care for her at all.

“Slap!”

Her instinctive reaction was to raise her hand and slap him, only her palm was still frozen in mid-air and her whole body was already in a semi-stunned state.

She actually reached out and hit him!

Vincent covered his face and looked at her incredulously, a bloodthirsty and cold chill surged from his eyes, even the air around him seemed to have been frozen.

The expression on his face was scary, really scary!

Leila got scared, her whole body stiffened as she tried to step back. She was trembling as she walked back step by step, finally retreating to the door.

“Open the door, open the door, let me out ...” she pulled at the door handle with all her might and shouted hysterically.

But the door did not budge at all, no matter how hard she tried she could not pull it open.

Leila pulled hard on the door handle, but the door just will not budge. she turned around and saw the cruel smile at the corner of Vincent’s mouth deepen. Seeing that she was scared of him through her clear eyes, his cold eyes flashed with a hint of pleasure. This was great, he wanted to see her scared look, she finally got to know what fear looked like, right?

Trying to retreat without any consequences after hitting him, do she really think that is possible?

“I want to go out!” Leila shouted.

Vincent had been walking towards her slowly. His cold eyes staring straight at her suddenly pale face, holding a cruel and scornful sneer as he walked step by step closer to her.

“You... don't come near me...”

Leila panicked and looked at the handsome but cruel and bloodthirsty face in front of her, the fear in her heart was increasing and her body involuntarily began to tremble.

“Heh, are you afraid now?”

As Vincent was slowly approaching her step by step, a cruel and ruthless smile could be seen appearing on his face.