Next One Is a Babe

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Naomi was thumping her fist on her chest. “Why do they bully single people like me? When I was working, I saw them showing off their relationship. After work, I have to look at you showing off. It seems like I’m doomed!”

Cindy, however, refuted in a small voice, “Since when have I done that? You are making everything up in your mind.”

In order to prevent Naomi from retaliating and continuing the pointless conversation, Cindy quickly brought up the main topic and asked, “What time are you getting off work today? Do you want to have dinner at my place?”

Naomi felt a little shy upon hearing that. “I can’t always have free food at your place. Wouldn’t that affect your alone time with Ian? If I’m always at your place, I’m sure he will be annoyed with me.”

Cindy chuckled and reassured, “Don’t worry about it. His mother always comes over for dinner and we don’t have much alone time to begin with. You are overthinking things.”

After a moment of hesitation, Naomi probably felt that being alone was rather boring, so she conceded, “Alright, then. I’ll go over after work today.” Thereafter, she had something else to work on, so she hung up quickly.

Cindy put the phone away and leaned against the chair. After hesitating for a while, she sent Ian a message. It was nothing serious. She told him that she was out and asked when he would return. She was just worried that he might not see her when he came back.

Even though she didn’t know if he would get anxious if he did not see her, it was an assistant’s responsibility to report things like these to him. However, Ian did not reply to her, so she wondered if he missed her message because he was busy.

When he did not reply, she just thought that he was still busy with his matters, so she got up and walked out of the neighborhood. Without him around, no one took notice of her.

In the end, she walked to the nearest mall to look at the latest fashion. She graduated from fashion design, so she was more inclined to this area.

Cindy kept thinking that after she had gained financial independence, she wanted to go back to her old profession. After all, she had spent so much time and effort on that, and she did not want to throw it all down the drain. Hence, she was very sure that one day, she would like to return to the fashion design industry.

Her attention solely focused on fashion, Cindy soon forgot the passing of time. She walked around the entire mall and looked at different designs, while the sky became darker outside.

By the time she returned to her senses, it was already evening. Hence, she quickly took out her phone, but she did not receive any calls or messages. Has Ian not seen my message till now?

In the end, she quickly took a cab home. When she reached home, she found that he still had not returned. In fact, the entire house was empty. Then, she walked to his room and took a peek inside. It seemed that indeed he had not returned, because it looked exactly the same before she left.

Since she had already asked Naomi over, she still prepared dinner after a moment of hesitation. It was that she got lost in her thoughts when she was making the preparations. After all, Ian was away all afternoon and he did not even check in with her.