Chapter 103

Barclay and Moira were left in the living room.

Moira felt guilty and avoided looking at Barclay. Before she could figure out how to explain everything, Barclay asked, “Are you friends with the housekeeper now?”

Moira replied, “No, we are not.”

Barclay did not reply to Moira. He sat down and gave Moira a meaningful look.

Moira quickly placed the plate of watermelon and grapes before Barclay, suggesting, “Have some watermelon. It’s so sweet”

Barclay chuckled when he observed Moira’s frantic attempts to please him with the watermelon slices. However, the next second, he returned to his usual icy look and said, “I don’t like sweet food.” He added inside, “Of course, except the sweet rabbit before me.”

Moira was shocked, thinking. ‘Should I change my wording and say the watermelon is only mediocre sweet?”

Moira took a bite of watermelon and suddenly found a blind spot. She asked, “Mr. Covington, I hope I’m not being too presumptuous, but can I ask you a question?”

Looking at Moira, Barclay raised an eyebrow to signal his permission.

Moira asked, “Why did you ask the housekeep to buy the sweet watermelon and grapes since you don’t like sweet food?”

word “sweet.” She did not mean to seek a fight but sincerely wanted to know

replied, “You may

was looking at him with confusion, Barclay continued, “I didn’t ask the housekeeper to buy the watermelon or grapes. She took the Initiative and

and added, “Probably the housekeeper thought

nothing wrong with Barclay’s expression. Although they were not

Covington” come out of Barclay’s mouth, She raised a hand to touch her

to herself, ‘It’s freakingly embarrassing. I should probably stop asking such

and thought of the poor Ms. Graham. With that, she pulled herself together and asked, “You seemed not to like today’s lunch. Was it because the salmon schnitzel and fried chicken were

glanced at Moira and replied, “I guess so?”

confused and

said “I guess so“?”

“It means a yes, but not a resounding one.”

“What?” She thought, ‘Is Barclay deliberately echoing my previous words to get back at me?”

She suppressed her emotion and said, “I asked Ms. Graham to prepare the lunch

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quite good. Can you

stared at Barclay carefully after she finished her words, fearing that Barclay would fire Ms.

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