'Wine doesn't taste good. Candy is sweet?' he wondered.

Barclay lowered his eyelids, lost in thought for a moment, then directed his attention to the corkscrew in his hand, and returned the unopened bottle to its place.

After completing this task, he returned to his previous position, sat back down, and reached into her palm to grab a piece of candy.

He unwrapped the candy, raised it to his mouth, and popped it in.

The moment the soft candy touched his tongue, a slight sourness spread instantly across his taste buds, followed by the full-bodied aroma of mango in his mouth.

He bit into the soft candy, and the sweetness immediately overpowered the earlier sourness.

'Yep, she is right. It's sweet,' he thought to himself.

However, he wanted to push his luck a bit.

Barclay turned his head to the side and looked at Moira, who had been watching him the whole time. "Not sweet enough, a bit sour."

"Huh?"

awkward. "I'm sorry. The mango candy

and just looked at the highball glass in her

his gaze, Moira glanced at her own glass. She had only taken a sip earlier, and now there

it seemed like he

at the two empty wine bottles beside her, then shook her head quickly. "No,

the highball glass and closed her eyes, taking a deep breath before downing

reminded her that it was a good bottle of

it went to

Barclay shifted his gaze and swallowed the

his eyes, leaning back against the wine cabinet behind him, and said nothing

Barclay had definitely taken an unprecedented

a proud man like Barclay come to the wine cellar to drown

anything could hurt him like this. Could it be trouble in his love life? I haven't heard anything about entanglements. Could it be Mr. Covington's recent ave betrayal by

ago, threatening her to divorce Baronet Or else he would kick Barclay out

his son! Eric wouldn't be that unreasonable, would

racked her brains but couldn't figure out why Barclay was

insight into Barclay's personal

her mind and looked at

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