'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?"

was suddenly awkward. "I'm sorry. The mango candy is a bit

looked at the highball glass in

at her own glass. She had only taken a sip earlier, and now there was still half a glass of

look in Barclay's eyes, it seemed like he

glanced at the two empty wine bottles beside her,

deep breath before downing the entire glass in one go. After finishing her

her that it was a

bad it went to waste.'

glass. "I'm done, not a drop left." Barclay shifted his gaze and swallowed the last bit of candy

leaning back against the wine cabinet behind him, and said

Barclay had definitely taken an unprecedented blow

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

been like a king in the business world. It's hard to imagine 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 a friend? It

Baronet Or else he would kick Barclay out of the

way? Barclay is his son! Eric wouldn't be that unreasonable, would

couldn't figure out why Barclay

have much insight

cleared her mind and looked at Barclay beside

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