"Sorry. I've never viewed you as competition." Amelia smiled. She continued, "I am confident that Lucian will never betray me."
She trusted him to the greatest extent, for he had told her how he truly felt for Claire.
Claire's face darkened in an instant. She glared at Amelia and did not show any signs of backing down. "I don't know if you've heard, Amelia, but some men can actually love more than one woman. How do you know if Lucian isn't any different?"
Having heard this, Amelia retorted, "By all means, you have a go at it. Get as close as you can to Lucian to confirm this little theory of yours. How about that?"
Claire was speechless. After her attempt at standing up to Amelia, she was humiliated.
"You can't do anything to me! In fact, you can try, but you can't stop me." She snorted. On her face was the look of unyielding determination.
Amelia took a deep breath. She knew that she had to watch it when talking with Claire, as the latter was prone to asthma attacks.
In the afternoon, Jonny called, asking Amelia out to lunch. She had wanted to refuse at first. However, she immediately remembered how Lucian had told her that if it weren't for Jonny, he and Claire wouldn't have run into each other. Amelia wanted to know the whole story.
Amelia and Jonny met up at a coffee shop which would have been every bookworm's paradise. Amelia was not especially fond of drinking coffee, bu
aid.
"You are being weird today. I didn't mean anything by what I said," Amelia said earnestly.
What she said was right. Even Jonny thought so.
All he had thought about during the blind date was Amelia, so he had called her up after the meeting.
He had thought that by this time, Claire had influenced Lucian and Amelia's relationship.
When all those negative things about Amelia came out in the news, Lucian wasted no time at all to dispel those rumors. It was then that Jonny realized that Lucian truly loved her. However, it had been impossible to give up on his feelings, and he went back to admiring her from a distance, just like he had done in the past.
"Amelia, how wonderful it would be if there are two Amelia in this world." Jonny looked at the blank expression on Amelia's face and couldn't help but sigh. After that, he thought that the other Amelia just wouldn't be as good as this one.
He knew that it was impossible for the two of them to get married and live happily ever after. Still, he chose to remain lost in these absurd dreams of his.
"Two Amelia?" Amelia got even more confused. She couldn't help but make fun of Jonny. "Have you been drinking coffee or wine? Stop talking nonsense!" Laughing, she held Jonny's cup and took a whiff of it. Then, with a childish smile on her face, she said, "It's not alcohol. Is this because you used coffee instead of wine to numb yourself?"