Miles's slender fingers gripped the steering wheel tightly, as if weighing his next words carefully.

Finally, he resigned himself to honesty.

"I don't want to deceive you. Today, Abigail shared quite a lot with me, and to be frank, understanding this concept of love you girls talk about isn't something I can grasp overnight. I need some time, and I might not be able to say the things you wish to hear, but! I do know one thing for sure-you're different to me."

Different from any other girl I've known.

Felicity rolled her eyes and crossed her arms, prompting, "Elaborate."

"..." Miles had been on the verge of saying 'I want to marry you,' but then he remembered Abigail's advice about not always bringing marriage into it! After a moment's thought, he said, "I want to date you." "Pfft-"

Felicity hadn't meant to laugh, but she couldn't help it.

"Wait, what? Date me?"

"Yes."

She eyed him up and down, teasingly saying, "All that time with Abigail and this is the best you could come up with?"

"I didn't brainstorm with her."

That was the truth.

on the receiving

come you, with Mr. Lopez as such a romantic figure in your life, didn't inherit any of his flair for

to date me feels as formal as my boss asking me to sign a contract!" Sometimes Felicity wondered how she could be attracted to someone so... bureaucratic.

get it wrong again? I'll take it back

you really take

still adjusting to this

she was always the one being lectured and managed by him, and now,

you honestly tell the difference now, whether you want to be with me out of responsibility, or because you genuinely

to just

possibility she mentioned

leaned back, pouting, "Then I'll think

"Think about what?"

wet just say yes

Miles's deep and refined features. After a while, Felicity

a sucker for a pretty face,

bit less attractive, she wouldn't- Hesitate

...

had been serious about

was her college friend's older brother, whose family owned a large Everfresh

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