Let Me Go, Mr. Harvey

She had followed him around for so many years and was happy as long as he didn’t kick her out.

She’d always thought he was a cold-hearted man who didn’t know how to be nice to people, and as long as she was nice to him, they would be fine.© 2024 Nôv/el/Dram/a.Org.

She didn’t realize that he wasn’t cold. It was just that he wasn’t into her.

Jessica looked at the food on the plate, with unconcealable surprises in her eyes, “Thank you, James.”

“Like to eat this?”

James put down the communal chopsticks and picked up his own again, “I will ask them bring some up later.”

Jessica’s eyes flashed and her cheeks reddened slightly as she nodded.

Angela hung her eyes and stood in front of the table, with a sore and swollen chest. Her heart wrenched as if it was being bitten by insects.

“Hello Mr. James, hello Miss Jessica.”

When she saw James and Jessica, Julia’s eyes lit up and she greeted them somewhat formally.

Angela forced herself to speak but there was no pleasure under her eyes, “Sorry to bother you.”

“I was worried you’d be too ashamed and embarrassed to come over.”

Jessica sighed helplessly, then smiled warmly, “It’s good that you’ve come over. Sit down please.”

“Thank you, Miss Jessica.”

Julia smiled and thanked her, pulling Angela to sit in the empty seat.

When the crowd wasn’t looking, she asked quietly.

“Why Miss Jessica said you’d be too ashamed and embarrassed to come over here?”

Angela’s body stiffened, not uttering a single word for half a day.

“Nothing, it’s just that she ran over my leg with her car.”

Jessica’s voice was soft and slightly apologetic as she said.

“Too close, sorry to hear your whispers.”

“That’s okay. That’s okay.”

Julia smiled sarcastically and waved his hand, embarrassed and shocked.

So it turned out that the target of Angela’s attempted murder was Miss Jessica.

“You don’t have to feel embarrassed. You’re not the one who ran over me.”

Jessica smiled and said with frustration.

“Besides, I don’t blame Angela. I just feel a little sorry that I won’t be able to dance in the future.”

“Were you a dancer?”

Julia said in surprise.

Danis looked at Jessica, his eyes downcast, “A World Champion of Ballet.”

If Jessica hadn’t gotten close to Angela for him in the first place, this wouldn’t have happened.

“You are actually a world champion?”

Julia covered her mouth, “That’s a shame!”

“If I were Miss Jessica and someone else bumped my leg, I would definitely never forgive her in my life!”

Only after she finished, did she realize what she had said. She smiled sarcastically and inclined her head to look at Angela, “I don’t suppose you mean to do that at that time either, right?”

“Whether she was intentional or not, Jessica can’t dance anymore.”

Danis’s face was gloomy.

No one spoke again, and the atmosphere was awkward to the extreme.

Only James was still eating, his demeanor elegant and noble, unaffected at all.

“Well, I said I don’t blame Angela for that.”

Jessica had a forced smile on her face, “Even if I can’t dance, it’s nothing. Stop talking about this heavy topic.”

Julia looked at Jessica’s clear and beautiful features and truly felt that Jessica was so gentle and kind that she made people’s hearts ache.

“Haven’t you been talking about it yourself?”

James put down his chopsticks and leaned back in his seat, glancing at Jessica with a wry smile.

Jessica hung her head and bit her lip as she said.

“Sorry, I’m the one who shouldn’t have brought up the subject.”

Jessica wondered whether James was speaking for Angela.

She looked at her right leg, which could barely move, and was both aggravated and upset.

Angela looked up at James and her heartbeat had a momentary acceleration, but she quickly lowered her head again, suppressing the strange emotions bubbling up in her heart.

“You don’t have to apologize.”

Danis couldn’t see Jessica being aggrieved. He looked at Angela with cold eyes, “What you said was originally the truth!”

“But that would be embarrassing for Angela.”

Jessica’s voice was small and her eyes were red, “I just wanted to invite her to have a nice meal together, and now I’m screwing it up.”

“She should have thought of the consequences when she did this in the first place, and it’s something she should take on.

You’re the victim, so there is no need to blame yourself.”

Danis was quite unpleasant. His sister always looked out for others like this and was prone to suffer.

James laughed lightly, a hint of mockery caught in the corner of his mouth, “Blaming yourself?”

Was Jessica acting too real, or was Danis too blind?

“It’s all my fault. I shouldn’t have said that.”

Jessica bit her lip and said.

“Angela, Julia, what would you like to eat?”

She swept her gaze over Julia and Angela, lingering on the latter for a moment longer, a flash of disgust and cynicism under her eyes.

Julia felt embarrassed after she knew that Angela had hurt Jessica’s leg, but now it was hard to leave again, so she could only smile sarcastically and order two dishes she liked to eat.

Angela took the menu and ordered a few dishes out of habit.

But after those dishes were served, she realized that they were all James’s favourites.

She inclined her head to look at James, who only cared about Jessica and didn’t even notice it.

She licked her lips, bitterness spreading through her heart.

“Angela, you have a weak stomach. Can you eat these raw and cold foods?”

Julia looked at the dishes she had ordered and came over to ask in a whisper.

“It wasn’t me who ate it.”

Angela whispered back to her, “They are ordered for Mr. James.”

She clipped the sashimi and put it on James’s plate, “I remember you like this the most.”

James’s dark eyes stared straight at her as if he could see through her heart.

Since yesterday, she’d been deliberately trying to please him.

Angela’s eyes twinkled and she lowered her eyes to give him another slice of salmon and something else he liked.

Danis watched her movements, his brow furrowed with a slight annoyance.

“You just used your own chopsticks, didn’t you?”

Jessica said in surprise.

“James has a slight cleanliness fetish. These are stained with your saliva, so he won’t eat them for sure.”

Angela paused in her movements and whispered an apology, “I’ll get a new plate.”

“You don’t have to get it, just ask the waiter to get one.”

Jessica teased.

“Have you been working as a janitor and PR at the Dream Club for so long that you’ve developed a habit?”

“I’ll get the plates.”

Clutching the corner of her coat, Angela stood up and went to the waiter.

When she returned with her plate, she couldn’t help sweeping a glance at James’s plate. He didn’t eat a single bite of the food she had chosen for him.

Her eyes dimmed a bit and set the plate down in front of him.

Halfway through eating, she couldn’t stand Jessica’s hypocrisy and excused herself to go to the toilet.

Danis followed her and tugged on her arm from behind when she was almost at the toilet door, “Did you follow James here on purpose?”

“No.”

Angela frowned and shook her hand off with force.

“No?”

Danis’s amber eyes were full of mockery, “So you happened to come to this mall to shop and come to this restaurant for dinner at this time of day and happened to meet us?”