Never Too Far Novel

Chapter 1021-1030

“No wonder, but it’s beautiful here. It’s mesmerizing.” Ruka scanned the ornaments in which each of them held a special meaning to it.

At that moment, the appetizers and fruit juices were served. Her eyes sparkled as she was already starving. She gulped her saliva while looking at the mouth-watering appetizers.

“If you’re hungry, just dig in.” Ren smiled as there was a smidgen of affection seeped into his voice.

She nodded and took one of the mozzarella sticks before feeding herself. It tasted awesome with its cheesy crunchiness.

“What is the earliest memory you can remember?” he asked out of curiosity.

With narrowed eyes, she chewed the food while recalling. “I think it’s when I was six or seven. It was the time I started elementary school. Why?” she questioned back.

He bit his lips. I knew it. This brat can’t remember everything that had happened until she turned five. She doesn’t know how clingy she was back then.

“Nevermind. Have more.” He had no intention of explaining.

“You should have them too.” Ruka placed a mozzarella stick onto his plate and he looked at it. Ren, who did not favor fried food, ate it nevertheless.

“Mr. Ren, are you normally busy with your work?”

“Very.”

“I bet you know many big names of the country, don’t you?”

“Hmm.”

“Aunt Scarlet told me that you don’t even have the time for blind dates.”

Ren narrowed his eyes. “Do you have a hobby of digging into my matters?”

“No. I’m worried about your marriage, like Aunt Scarlet does. I just hope that you’ll find someone that you can spend the rest of your life with.” Ruka gazed at him with sincerity, showing her genuine concern about one of his biggest life events.

He snorted. “Yeah, yeah. I should be worrying when even a kiddo like you has a boyfriend.”

Her cheeks tinged with red. “We haven’t gone that far yet! It’s just that we click and we enjoy the company of each other.”

“Oh, really? Do you have his picture?”

She was slightly stunned. Does he wanna see him?

Nonetheless, she bashfully took out her phone and found a photo they had taken together before showing Ren. “See the guy wearing a white T-shirt? That’s him.”

He grabbed the gadget to take a look at it. It was a picture of eight of them on a mountain. A smiling Ruka stood next to a tall guy, whose smile was dashingly bright. He seemed like the type that girls would fall for in schools.

“He’s Jethro. I have known him since high school. He’s my senior,” she announced seriously yet nervously as if she was introducing his friend to the elders.

“Hmm. He’s quite handsome.” The moment Ren returned her phone, his phone rang and he picked it up.

“Hello.”

“Sir, Miss Parfait is at the door to see you,” reported the bodyguard.

Ren’s brows furrowed as he responded, “I’m coming.”

He then told Ruka, “I’ll be outside for a while. Go ahead and enjoy the food without me.”

“Okay.” She nodded while thinking, He is a busy man. He has to deal with work even during meal time.

As soon as Ren’s tall stature appeared by the door, a woman sprinted toward him and hugged him tightly. Considering the faint smell of alcohol on her, it was obvious that she had some drinks.

Clinging onto him, she buried her face into his chest and uttered with delight, “Ren, I knew that you’d be here. I miss you, especially tonight.”

“You’re drunk. I’ll ask someone to send you home.” He pushed her away and grasped her shoulders while looking at her calmly.

She seemed to be in her late twenties. With that bushy curly hair and sublime make-up, she appeared gorgeous yet sexy. She was a total beauty queen and yet, someone like her had been pursuing Ren for a whole five years, but it did not come to fruition.

“No! I don’t wanna go home. I wanna stay with you. Ren, I don’t wanna go anywhere except staying by your side. Please don’t drive me away.” Victoria Parfait stared at him with glazing eyes, which was rife with her deep admiration for him.

Ren rejected in a low voice, “I’m slammed tonight.”

“That’s the excuse you use every single time. You just don’t wanna see me, do you? Tell me, which part of me are you unsatisfied with? I’ll change. I’ll change until you’re satisfied. For the past five years, there’s not a day I live through without missing you. I’ve waited for you this long. You gotta give me a reason.” Victoria’s voice was filled with sorrow and grievance. She was indeed drunk and hence the daring confession to the vice president of the country.

He beckoned the bodyguard over. “Please send Miss Parfait home.”

However, the woman, who was pushed away, threw herself into his embrace once again. With her hand tightly wrapped around his waist, she shook her head. “No! I ain’t going anywhere. Five years ago, you told me that there’s someone you like, but I’ve never seen any women by your side all along. There’s not a shadow of women near you either. Was it a lie? Why can’t you give me a chance?”

Ruka drank too much fruit juice and so nature was calling for her. She rose from her seat and went out to search for the restroom. When she left the ladies’, she happened to hear a vehement woman speaking. Out of curiosity, she walked toward where the woman was.

Just a single glance of the situation made her cover her mouth.

Holy moly! Is that a woman in Mr. Ren’s arms? She seems to be grumbling about something to him. She’s kinda agitated at the moment.

She wondered if the woman was Ren’s crush. If so, she could inform Scarlet about it and tell her not to worry about it.

“Ren Husson, hurry and tell me. Is there someone you like? Just say it! Who is she? I’ll give up as long as you give me a name.” Victoria lifted her head and looked at him with teary eyes, which were blurry and grieve.

Just as Ren was about to say something, he saw someone fall from behind the pillar. It was Ruka, who decided to return to the private room upon noticing an incoming waiter. However, there was a threshold next to the pillar, which made her trip and fall onto the ground.

This is so embarrassing!

She raised her head to see him shoving the woman away from his arms. He then strode toward Ruka with a worried face whereas she hastily rose to her feet. “No worries! I’m fine.”

The shoved Victoria cast her glance over in surprise, only to see a young girl standing before Ren with a bright smile.

The girl under the illuminating light looked young; her jet-black hair flowed down to her waist and revealed the well-defined features on her palm-sized face, especially with those bright eyes that could talk.

Jealousy surged into Victoria’s heart almost immediately. Taking a deep breath in pain, she marched over and sized Ruka up before asking Ren, “Is it her? Is she the one you’ve been waiting for?”

Meanwhile, Ruka was nonplussed by the sudden turn of events. What is this pretty lady talking about?

His countenance stiffened as he held Victoria’s hand. “I’ll ask someone to send you home right now.” His voice left no room for a denial.

She was baffled and her heart was pricked by an invisible knife. It was her first time seeing him so nervous. Ever since he was elected as the vice president, his manner of working had been calm and solemn. Yet, the anxiety on his face was evident a moment ago.

“Why? You don’t have the guts to admit it to my face? Ren, what are you afraid of?” She shrugged his hand off. There was not one bit of rationality left in her under the influence of alcohol.

It was her first time in five years seeing the man she loved inviting a girl for a meal. Thus, it was enough to prove that this young lady was the person he coveted.

Is she the person he has been waiting for?

“Speak! Is she the one?” Victoria raised her head as she was persistent to get to the bottom of it.

“Stop the fuss. You should get going.” The glint in Ren’s eyes was daunting.

“Miss, what’s your name?” she questioned Ruka suddenly.

“I’m Ruka Singed. I’m…” the innocent girl replied politely.

“She is my sister’s best friend’s daughter,” Ren continued Ruka’s words.

Victoria was stunned for a moment, for she could clearly tell that he was avoiding something.

Is he protecting her? Who is she?

“Nice to meet you. I’m Victoria Parfait.” She took the initiative to introduce herself due to the sudden swell of self-confidence. If this young brat was truly the one he liked, she need not have to worry about her rival.

“Hi. I’m Ruka.” Ruka returned a smile.

However, Victoria’s arm was suddenly grabbed by a hand. Ren pulled her while ordering Ruka, “Go back to the private room. I gotta talk to her for a moment.”

Ruka sensibly wheeled around and left. Victoria’s gaze zeroed in on her figure until she vanished in the corridor. Then, Victoria raised her head at him. “So, you like that kid?”

“Stop spewing nonsense. It’s not like what you think.” He let go of her arm and his countenance slightly darkened. “You’ve gone overboard tonight. You should leave.”

At this moment, she was almost sober and was slightly mortified. However, she did not regret blurting these.

“Sorry. I’m behaving like this because I love you so much.” She bit her lip before lifting her head to question, “So, what’s going on between the both of you?”

in Ren’s eyes. “There are things that you just

once the other party had crossed the line, Ren would warn them not

squeezed. The more he steered clear of that topic, the more she knew how

than him by many years, would

doesn’t seem outstanding in any way. Which charm

she wished to know the reason because she was not a quitter. Some people would set back others’ lifetime once they met up; how could she lay her eyes on others when she

but my feelings for you will never change. I will always wait for you.

for him through actions. Even if she had to keep waiting, she would not

the handsome man, who stood under the lights, with heavy hearts. Every

the meantime, Ruka was eating absent-mindedly while thinking of the woman’s

mean by ‘is it her’?

and Ren entered the room. She quickly stood up to welcome him. “Has

“Hmm.”

She planned to gush about the

my colleague,”

seems to like you a lot,” stated Ruka

Peeking at the grumpy man, she figured that it would

keep her cool, someone placed a shrimp onto her plate. It turned out that she was so distracted that she

Victoria Parfait, the chief of the Translation Department. You’ll be working for her

head abruptly. “She will be my supervisor in

He nodded as the fact that Ruka

sounded impolite.”

a big deal. Don’t stress

lips into a

better mood, she seized the chance to voice out her curiosity. “Miss Parfait looked at me and questioned whether I was ‘her’. What does that mean? Did she

his intense gaze landed upon her visage. “Hmm, she got the

I

Ren brusquely called her name

at him in response.

me as ‘Mr.

address you as ‘Mr. Husson’.” She giggled. “I don’t like addressing you like you’re my uncle either. It sounds like you’re old.

of delight fleeted across his eyes. “Really? Am I

young and very handsome,” she praised, eliciting a smile on Ren’s lips and the appealing and sexy

abroad. Influenced by her parents

took them less than fifteen minutes to arrive outside Husson Residence. She asked Ren whether he wanted to have tea for a while, after which he shook his head in reply. “I

health,” Ruka advised with a serious expression while bending over. Next, she flashed a

in,” he urged her as he would only leave after watching her entering

if he was gone. The adorable countenance was that of an angel and fairy under the illuminating

Ren’s car slowly drove away. In the back seat, the street lights shone upon the man’s attractive face. There was a faint smile across his

working on the balcony in her apartment while waiting for Richard. He left the place for

stared at the myriads of twinkling lights of the city with a gentle gaze. There was a change

to the brim with love and firmly held in the

would not cut that deep if they were abandoned one day. However, she

incoming man at the entrance. With a smile, Angela took over his shirt, but before she

was the only one awfully missing him during the short separation. Yet, she now knew that Richard equally missed her judging from how tight and

with kisses, leaving her no time

a shower.” She

I wanted to come back early, but I had dinner with

you. I’m not worried one

did you have for

asked my assistant to send over some

spanning his hands. “You don’t need a

mainly want to look good in the wedding dress, so I’m on a diet as early as possible. I wanna look the way I want on one of the most important days of my

To me, you look great regardless.” Richard

arms around his neck and

due to

which did not buzz a sound. The ringing sound could be trailed from the jacket, so

the caller ID, she realized that it was his grandfather calling

Richard there with

He’s in the shower right now. Is there anything urgent?”

“Angela, I’ve talked to him about something earlier, but he disagrees with my idea. So, I wanna speak with

may

a public ceremony. Richard doesn’t see eye to

without a wedding. You don’t have to stress about this. I’ll speak to

you’ll understand. I’m worried about his safety. He’s working for the military and there’s many factors that can put his life in danger. I’ve lost my son and I can’t afford to lose my grandson anymore.” He could feel the lump in his throat while recounting. Obviously, he was upset by the dispute

to heart and be upset about it for long. You’re the most important person to him. Look, I’ll discuss it with him. I’m totally fine with a simple wedding. Of course, I don’t wanna expose him in public and put

understanding. It must be hard for you to accept this. Every girl wants a grand wedding, but we can’t do that for you due to Richard’s job. I will make sure that

alright without a wedding. To me, nothing matters more than being

I’ll leave it to

me with this. Please get some early

wedding. He wished to hold a wedding for her and thus the guilt she

inattentive of her; his job came with a huge risk and canceling the wedding ceremony was a form of protection for him. Furthermore, not having a

dress? That means I don’t need to be on a

heart ached at the thought

running water in the bathroom, she seated herself by the bed as she waited for him. At last, Richard emerged from the bathroom with only a gray towel wrapped around his waist. He froze for a moment when he noticed her by the bed before

seat. I have something to tell you,” Angela

the man sat next to her

to Grandpa about our wedding

call you?” Richard sighed before continuing, “I want to give you an ordinary,

shoulders and raised her head at him. “Let’s just skip the wedding. We can simply have a meal with both our parents. It’s okay even if we don’t get the marriage certificate. Let’s just live this way! I don’t want to be a burden and a source of liability for you. I want you

moment I agreed to marry him, I am inherently agreeing to become his liability. The greatest mission of his life is to protect this very

much I love you?” The man

else is secondary.” She smiled as she pressed against his chest before adding, “I

ceremony for a lady like her, who was raised with love and

you in this world and I don’t wanna risk losing you. Please contact Grandpa. Otherwise, I’m afraid the old man won’t be

you, Angela,” Richard said as he kissed her

me

lovingly

catch a breath of relief. With that, Angela had changed into

his two buddies here to get drunk tonight as he was severely irritated,

year by relying

right?” Andy inquired, hands on his two buddies’ shoulders. “Now

“Go ahead, Andy.”

am not easily intimidated by anyone. Furthermore, I was trampled under the feet by that b*tch’s

We need to show them how powerful

you must at least have some fun with her! Or else, you’d

How lovely

candid photograph of Angela’s meeting taken by an employee. She sat there in a gray suit,

there were beautiful but not extravagant. Angela, on the other hand, exuded the aura

Consider this my way of

This is

to take advantage of her! It’s time for us to devour some high-end

his mind. He would never reveal

now it’s entirely up to you.

her and you

“Okay,” Andy sneered.

Early in the morning…

last night. It was because of that confession, which brought her consciousness back to the forefront as she realized how heartbroken she was upon seeing a young girl

the Ruka chick and

is the newcomer’s profile for the appointment next week. Please review and sign

way,” the assistant continued, “there were originally six interns, but an intern named

abruptly and looked at the assistant. “Ruka? Who added her?” she

who called. If you have any questions,

noticed a youthful photograph of Ruka

she understood the situation. Ren appears to be the person who assigned Ruka to the Translation Department! Though he is usually strict and

Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Among the interns, she was thought to come from a middle-class family as almost every other intern

Ren give her a

Ren’s phone number.

low, magnetic voice

get Ruka a job in the Translation Department, Ren? Why didn’t you inform me? I would have looked

Ruka. Let her do things to

definitely take good care of her because of our relationship. Oh, right! What is your relationship with her? You didn’t make it clear last night!

nothing

apology for what happened last

today. Let’s take a raincheck. Goodbye.”

five years and had gone almost insane for him. Not only had she squandered

such, Angela would need to sign some documents on behalf of her mother. Under usual circumstances, Angela would only go to the company if there

to be reviewed and signed. Although Angela had not yet

previously spent a year in business school. Despite the fact that she did not graduate,

was secretly watching her behind the pillar outside the office. ‘Angela is in the company,’ he reported, lowering his head to

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