Chapter 906: Chapter 906 The One He Loves is Back (Part 20)_1

Madeleine smiled and stopped the waiter, letting him leave the plate.

Howard looked at Madeleine with a touch of surprise in his eyes.

One telling the waiter to put it down, the other to pour it out, the waiter stood to the side, appearing a bit helpless. In the end, Madeleine reached out, took the plate from the waiter’s tray, placed it on the table, then picked up her chopsticks, and stuffed a piece of onion into her mouth. She chewed twice, swallowed, then with a smile curving in her eyes, she warmly said to the waiter standing by, “It’s quite delicious, thank you.”

Once the waiter had left, Howard asked, “Didn’t you use to not eat onions?”

“That was in the past,” Madeleine continued with the onions, stuffing another piece into her mouth. “In Oceania, I could never get used to the food, and every time I went to the supermarket for vegetables, there were so pitifully few choices. Even though I detested onions, compared to having vegetables to eat, that hate seemed trivial. Besides, many times, things you think are deeply ingrained can easily change, right?”

It was true, the habits you think you can’t change in a lifetime can shift in an instant.

Yet, the one thing she couldn’t change was her love for him.

If only she could stop loving him, how wonderful that would be!

Howard, sitting opposite Madeleine, felt his heart sink like it was filled with lead upon hearing her words. He couldn’t tell if he felt worse for the hardships she endured in Oceania or for the deeply ingrained thing she had spoken about changing.

Madeleine saw Howard had no intention of speaking and fell silent as well.

Thus, the two of them finished their late-night snack in silence, got back into the car, and as the driver started the vehicle to take Madeleine home, her phone suddenly rang.

Howard heard the ringtone and tilted his head slightly just in time to see the screen of the phone Madeleine took out, displaying the name “Andrew Henris.”

A man’s name… Howard’s lips involuntarily pressed together tightly, and then he watched Madeleine answer the call, lifting it to her ear and softly addressing the person on the other end, “Mr. Henris?”

The car was very quiet, with Howard and Madeleine sitting side by side, he could clearly hear a male voice from Madeleine’s receiver speaking in not-so-fluent Chinese, “Ms. Madeleine, not asleep yet?”

“No, if I were asleep, could I still answer your call?” Madeleine chuckled lightly. “Calling me this late, is something the matter?”

“Just wanted to ask how you’ve been these past few days back in China?”

“Pretty good,” Madeleine answered the question, then switched the phone to her other hand and to her other ear, a bit further from Howard so he couldn’t hear what the man said. After a moment, he saw Madeleine’s eyes gleaming with a touch of surprise and joy as she said, “What? You’re coming to Ciawell these next few days? …Of course, if Mr. Henris is coming to Ciawell, I will certainly take good care of you… Really? So Mr. Henris isn’t coming to Ciawell for business, but for my birthday in a few days? …Mr. Henris really knows how to make a girl happy… Trust, of course, I trust Mr. Henris, just curious what birthday present Mr. Henris is coming all this way to give me?”

[Howard was tortured like a dog~~]

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