Seeing how Toby agreed to Zane’s words, Tina was filled with resentment because she knew that Zane was deliberately setting a trap for her—forcing her to hike a mountain that she didn’t want to. The important point was, she had to jump into this trap, or she would really be seen as a hypocrite.
At the thought of this, she silently cursed Zane a few times in her heart, but put on a smile on her face, saying, “You must be kidding, Mr. Coleman. All I said was the mountain is too high, and nothing about going home.”
“Oh, so you’ll still go for the hike?” Zane asked with raised eyebrows.
Nodding, she answered, “For sure.”
“Alright,” Zane said with a smirk and didn’t say anything else after that.
Looking at Tina, Toby said, “Tina, you don’t have to mind the things Zane said. If you really don’t want to go hiking, you can—”
“It’s alright, Toby. I can do this.” She broke him off and stopped him from speaking by placing a hand over his mouth.
Seeing how determined she seemed, Toby decided to drop the matter.
As Rebecca watched the both of them, she couldn’t help but shudder from disgust. “So cheesy.”
Grinning, Sonia asked, “Why is it cheesy?”
look how corny they are. She’s even covering his lips as if they’re in a soap
back and stole a glance at Toby and Tina before nodding her head
Let’s go and stop looking at them. It hurts our eyes,” Rebecca
Sonia replied, and they entered the hiking
eyes turned solemn. Cheesy? Is that what we look
thinking about, Toby?” Tina asked, swaying
his thoughts, and his
entered the hiking entrance as well. Since everyone else didn’t want to hike together with them, both of them ended up
beginning, all seven of them were hiking slowly together, but halfway through, Tyler suddenly came up with the suggestion to have
he even threw a provocative look at Charles, who couldn’t stand his arrogance and agreed to the race.
as well, she was ordered by Charles to stay by Sonia’s side to protect her. After all, he was
started off together in a run, leaving behind Sonia,
a little while after, Tina suddenly plopped herself on a rock, panting heavily. “Toby,
and took out a bottle of water from his backpack. After he opened it, he passed it to her and said, “Have
she said with a smile, taking
passed it to Sonia. Surprised at his gesture, Sonia turned down his offer, saying calmly, “Thanks, but no thanks, President Fuller. I’m afraid that your fiancée
her walk away to a distance, he pursed his lips and retracted his
the water bottle tightened so much that she had squeezed it out of shape. Is he upset because Sonia turned him down? Lowering her eyes
the bottle of water into his backpack, he looked at her
she replied
He extended his hand
inch. “Toby, I’m sorry, but my legs hurt too much. I
his brows in concern, he looked
head. “It’s because I
his chest from his
her eyes, but it disappeared very quickly. Feigning confusion, she asked, “What
you to the top,” he answered composedly, looking at the
said, “I don’t think so. It’s still a long way before we reach the
Get on.”
his back. With Tina on his back, Toby started walking ahead. And soon, they caught
rock
and were stunned
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