Chapter 40: We Don’t Need To Be Friends
Selene halts her steps. She turned back to look at Xavier while her face looked no different than a tomato at that moment.
"What did you say?" She asked, hoping she had misheard the first time and her mind was playing a trick on her.
"What if I’m in love with you?" Xavier repeated.
"You are not," Selene said. "You can’t be in love with me," she added, staring around the garden to find words she could add but was interrupted when Michelle came out of nowhere.
"Selene, Xavier. What are you two doing here?" Michelle asked through a forced smile. She had heard the question Xavier asked Selene and she couldn’t believe her ears.
’Here I am trying to make him notice me and she is seducing him,’ Michelle thought to herself.
"We were just talking," Selene replied before she limped back inside the mansion, leaving Michelle and Xavier behind.
Michelle glared at Selene’s back but quickly changed her expression when she looked at Xavier.
"Xavier, can we talk?" She asked, her voice very gentle and internally hoping that Xavier wouldn’t dismiss her like the other times.
"What do you want?" Xavier questioned, his tone impatient as he waited for her to speak.
Michelle forced her lips open before she spoke, "It’s been close to nine months already since our ID cards were exchanged at the city hall. I’m ready to divorce Richard so that we can get married. That was the original plan, Xavier. Let’s get married."