Elspeth got out of the car with her bag in hand. She walked forward while faking that she was about to make a phone call. Then, she suddenly bumped into Zain by accident due to her negligence. The momentum caused her to lose her balance and sprawl to the ground. To make matters worse, the screen of her phone shattered upon impact.
“Hiss…” She pretended to be in great pain as she looked up with tears in her eyes. “I’m sorry. I was looking at my phone just now, so I wasn’t looking at the road.”
Zain initially planned to fly into a great rage, but his anger dissipated completely when he realized that the person who bumped into him was a beautiful and delicate woman.
“It’s nothing. Are you alright? Here, let me help you up.”
He stretched out his hand to help her up. However, she stood up on her own with an apologetic look. She patted the dust from her body and began blabbering in embarrassment. “How can I trouble you? It’s my fault that I fell down in the first place. But my phone…”
She glanced at her phone on the ground, feeling a dull pang in her chest.
The lecherous man had been trying to come up with a reason to ask her out. So, when he saw the phone lying on the ground, his heart leaped with joy. “It’s fine. I’ll buy you a new one to replace this. But, Miss, how should I address you?”
She laughed softly. “I am Abigail Joneson. What about you?”
He found her smile absolutely breathtaking. “I am Zain Black, the financial director of the Alphascape Group.”
A plan had already formed in his heart as he deliberately exposed his high-ranked status in a big company. He figured that if he revealed his identity to her, she would definitely behave like all the other women and fawn over him.
“It’s getting late, and I have something going on. Please excuse me. I have to go.” Elspeth lifted a hand to look at her watch with an anxious expression. “If it’s about my phone… I dropped it myself, so I’ll just buy a new one later. Don’t worry about it.”
It was his first time meeting a woman like her who was neither greedy for money nor vain. Not to mention, she was an absolute beauty. A mixture of complicated feelings washed over him for a moment.
If only I could make her mine… The moment I do, I will immediately divorce my plain-looking hag of a housewife and marry her instead!
“No. Half of the blame lies with me. At least let me pay for half of the costs. Otherwise, I won’t feel at ease!”
She hesitated for a moment before she answered, “Um… Why don’t we exchange phone numbers for now? Then, you can transfer the money to me once I buy a new phone.”
Although he was not happy with the arrangement, he reluctantly nodded in agreement. It was not good to be too forceful during their first meeting. After all, courtship was a gradual and progressive process.
Elspeth gave him her phone number to make this incident more believable. However, it was a spare number. Even if he tried to investigate the personal information behind this number, he would not be able to figure out her true identity.
Once they finished exchanging contact information, she smiled and waved at him before walking away.
Zain remained extremely distracted after Elspeth left. Although he constantly checked his phone, it wasn’t until late evening that he finally received the friend verification message on Facebook.
Elspeth stared at the messages that she received from the other party. Despite feeling annoyed, she was forced to adopt a gentle tone.
‘The new phone cost 6,000. You can just transfer 3,000 to me.’
‘Ding dong. You have received 30,000 in your PayPal account.’
She slowly sent him a message that contained only a single question mark.
“Miss Joneson, I added an extra zero by mistake earlier. I’m very sorry for my blunder. But I don’t lack this small amount of money. So, you can go ahead and keep the change.”
“Uh… Okay, then. In that case, why don’t I treat you to dinner tomorrow? If I treat you to dinner a few times, then we can consider the debt paid off.”
Things had played out exactly as he wanted. Thus, he replied to her message with two smiley emojis as though he was delighted with the arrangement.
The next day happened to be the weekend. Elspeth arrived at the agreed meeting place early in the morning and waited for Zain to make his appearance.
Callum was worried and decided to follow her, so he could be there if something went wrong. “I will be sitting right behind you later.”
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