Chapter 188 - Threatened

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Aaron stared at his friend for a long time and decided that his ears must have been playing tricks at him.

He had grown up with Edith and thought that the idea of Edith Qian having a boyfriend and cohabiting with a strange man was too bizarre.

Pushing the bowl of noodles farther away, Aaron stared at the girl beside him for a very long time, making her uncomfortable. "You try and repeat that. I think there is something wrong with my hearing."

Edith took a deep breath and looked at Aaron in his eyes. "I am now living with my boyfriend." Saying those words for the second time felt much easier for Edith.

"What boyfriend?" Aaron chuckled. "Edith Qian, you are trying to trick me with another of your joke, right? You? A boyfriend? It couldn't be an imaginary one, right?"

Her face turned darker at his words. "What do you mean by that? Aaron Li, are you looking down on me? Why is it so surprising to you that I have a boyfriend?"

Aaron stared at her for a long time again as if to see whether this girl would be lying to him. A few cursing words escaped his lips when he noticed that there was no fluctuation in her expression.

"You were telling me the truth?"

"Why would I joke about something like this? What would I gain?"

Aaron leaned on his chair as he continued to stare at Edith speechlessly. Somehow, he found that it was hard to process the information he received. Edith having a boyfriend was one thing, but cohabiting was another matter.

How long have they been in a relationship? Wasn't cohabiting a little too fast?

"We've been living together for four months," Edith said.

For the first two months, she was staying with Neil as Hazel's caretaker. But living together is living together, no matter whether she was Hazel's caretaker or Neil's girlfriend.

Another curse words escaped him. Suddenly, a thought crossed his mind and Aaron narrowed his eyes. "The last two times I came to L City to find you, you have been living with that bastard?"

Seconds later, Aaron felt a loud smack on his head.

Edith ignored the aggrieved expression on his face and warned, "Watch your words. Don't call my darling with such vulgar name."

Aaron felt the corner of his lips twitched. What darling? He had a lot to complain about but was afraid that this gangster in front of him would beat him to death.

"I wanted to meet him," Aaron said. "Unless if you take him to me, I won't believe that you have a boyfriend."

Edith thought over his request and nodded. "Alright. I will arrange for a meeting later."

"No. Today." Aaron stared at her with a serious look on his face. "You will let him know and ask him to see me today. "

Edith clicked her tongue and shot a displeased look. "Who are you? Why should my darling make his time just to meet you?"

Aaron tried his best to ignore that terms of endearing. "If you don't call him up for a meeting today, I will tell your grandpa and we'll see what he was going to do to you later."

Edith gasped at his threat. "You wouldn't. Aaron Li, you promised."

"I changed my mind. What are you going to do about it?" Aaron raised a brow. "Anyway, I am doing this for your own good. As someone who grew up with you, I need to help you to evaluate whether this man is a good person or not."

"The person I chose to date will definitely be a good person."

Edith narrowed her eyes and after a staring contest between them, Edith finally gave up and took out her phone."Alright. I will give him a call and ask him to have a meal with us."

Anyway, it would be very troublesome if Aaron went to her grandfather and told her secret. Her grandfather would be surprised to hear that she was cohabiting with Neil and she was not ready to face her grandfather's wrath.

The phone call connected to Neil after a few seconds and his voice sounded deep and sexy through the phone.

"Are you done with your meeting with your friend?" Neil asked. "Do you want me to pick you up?"

Earlier, his girlfriend had mentioned that she was going to meet Aaron after work. Although Neil was a little reluctant to let his girlfriend met up with his potential love rival, in the end, Neil decided to trust his girlfriend and made her promise that she was not going to take a sip of alcohol.

"Darling, are you busy?" Edith shot a dagger look at Aaron when he rolled his eyes at her.

The pen in Neil's hand paused when he heard her question. "What's the matter?"

"I was wondering if you can come over and have a meal with my friend, Aaron." Edith stood up and went to a corner to get some privacy. "I told him that I have a boyfriend, but he refused to believe me until he sees you with his two eyes."

"Alright," Neil answered quickly. The corner of his lips turned to a smile. Just the thought that Edith was going to introduce him as her boyfriend made him a little happier. "Just text me the place and time. I will be there soon."

The two of them exchanged a few words before Edith hung up. Noticing Aaron's stare, Edith turned to him and gave him a smug smile. "He'll be here soon."

"So, he's a real person." Aaron leaned forward. "But if he is a good guy, then why did you want to hide him away from your grandpa and everyone else? What is it? He's ugly?"

"You're the ugly one. My darling is better looking than you." Edith huffed. "It was not that I wanted to hide him away. We talked and decided to go back and break the news to my grandpa on the New Year."

With such a festivity mood, her grandfather would go easy on her boyfriend, right?

Aaron then recalled the important matter and decided to ask questions that have been haunting him since the very beginning. "Your boyfriend… he did not take advantage of you, did he?"

Edith looked away for a brief second and chuckled. "Do you think I am that easy to take advantage of? I am the one who takes advantage of him, okay?"

Aaron pondered over her words and thought that there was some truth in it. There were not a lot of people who could take advantage of Edith. This woman gangster can be calculative at times and would not let herself suffer any losses.

But... that was not what he wanted to know!

"Who is he? Don't he at least have a name?" Aaron decided to run this person's information on the database and warn his friend if he found anything suspicious about this boyfriend.

Edith flashed him a mysterious smile.. "You will know soon."

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