Chapter 71 The Appointment

Sherry was left speechless, as she stared at Linda's receding figure. After all, it was still working hours, and as a manager, she should be focusing on her work.

She had said everything she wanted to say, and she hoped that Linda would understand where she was coming from. She was afraid that Linda would ignore her and regret it later when she had fallen completely into it.

After a day's work, everyone else was hoping to get off work early, but Sherry was very reluctant to do so.

She felt like she would fall ill at the thought of going with Steve to the piano concert.

It was not the pianist's fault, of course, as she was very fond of that pianist, and if she could go to the concert alone, she would be very happy.

But now, she didn't want to go at all because of Steve.

As soon as Sherry stepped out of the office building, she saw a car parked just a small distance away, a man about to get off.

Steve stared back at her with an arrogant smirk, and as her eyes trailed down, she noticed that his black shirt accentuated his wide shoulders well. She wanted to feel appreciation for this man, but all she could feel at that moment was dread.

"Sherry, come here!" Steve suddenly shouted while Sherry was still far away. Her heart jumped nervously, and she hurried towards him with her shoulders hunched down, trying to make herself smaller, so that no one would look at her.

Once she was near enough to his car, she hissed angrily, "Can't you keep it down? Do you want everyone to know about this?"

She was enraged. Did he want to let everyone in the company know she was going out with him?

She did not care about the others and could easily ignore them, but how could she explain this to Linda? If she saw him going out with Steve, it would break her heart. Sherry had no idea how to face her good friend.

"Why not? Why can't I let others know?" he asked indignantly. "We are both single, and it's normal for a man to ask a woman out, isn't it?" He originally wanted to pursue Sherry in a grand and outlandish way as if to say that she was his and no one else's.

But when Sherry heard how open he was about this, she became so angry, hissing like a feral cat. She pushed her way towards his car with big steps as if there were wings on her feet that enabled her to walk quickly in her high heels.

"Sherry!" Steve caught up with her in a few steps and leaned close to her, but before he could whisper to her ear, she leaned away, glared at him heatedly, and said,

"Don't be so loud and obvious next time, okay? Park your car somewhere farther away and wait until I come," she told him as she eyed him with an icy expression. Steve frowned at this and said, "What's wrong with you? Why are you acting like you are so ashamed of me?" He could not understand why she was acting this way when any other woman would have begged just to be treated like he was treating her. Unfortunately for her, he was accustomed to being unrestrained, and he never cared about what anyone would say.

This was why he could not figure Sherry out.

"I don't want to have too much contact with you, and I don't want my colleagues to see it either." There was a firm determination behind Sherry's words. She didn't want to have anything to do with Steve because in her heart, Steve was just a disgusting bastard!

"Why? Am I not presentable? I always pursue women without restraint, and I don't want to hide my feelings." As he said this, he opened the door for Sherry with a flourish that annoyed her even more. He wore an arrogant smirk as if he was challenging her to stop him from doing outlandish romantic gestures.

Sherry gave a cold smile at this and said, "If that is what you want, then you can go out on your own next time. There is no need to call me."

She had already conceded once, so after this, if Steve dared to threaten her with Linda again, she would take ext

"I won't bother Linda anymore, okay?" Steve added further.

And when she heard this, she was moved.

In her mind, she could do anything for a good friend, and she was willing to do this just so Linda would not get hurt.

After a long while filled with hesitation, she finally nodded minutely, and the movement was so quick and hesitant that anyone would have missed it, but Steve, who was eyeing her like a hawk, did not miss a thing.

"Good, then it's a deal. We will spend a month to know each other, so you can't refuse my invitations, okay?"

The happy expression on Steve's face was a sharp contrast to Sherry's dead eyes, as she accepted the deal.

Steve laughed joyfully but Sherry couldn't find a trace of happiness in her, although, she did feel a little relaxed.

After all, the deal was reassuring on her part because one month was surely not enough time to fall in love with him, and it meant that he would leave her and Linda alone after a month.

'I'll just go out with him. It's not a bad deal,' she thought to herself.

Meanwhile, Jessie was just exiting the concert hall, and she spotted Steve and Sherry at once.

Even though Sherry was facing away from her, Jessie could still recognize her clearly. Her eyes narrowed as the man who was standing in front of her caught her attention.

'Was that Steve? Why are they standing so close to each other?' she wondered.

She did not waste any time and immediately took out her phone, but when she was about to take a picture, Sherry suddenly slapped away Steve's hand. Then, they walked out of the music hall side by side.

A cold smile tugged at the corners of Jessie's mouth, as she looked at their departing figures.

When they were out of her sight, she made a phone call and then went to a private detective agency, where she made an appointment to meet as soon as possible.

In the detective agency, Jessie showed up with big sunglasses that covered almost half of her face.

She threw a pile of documents onto the desk, and told the private detective, "I want you to follow these two around and take photos for me. I want to know what is going on with them, is that clear?"

The private detective looked up at her in a daze, distracted by the bright red lipstick smeared on her lips, but when he saw that Jessie was dressed in a fancy dress and her bag alone seemed more expensive than his whole attire, he immediately agreed to take the case.

A strange smile spread over her face.

'Sherry, you are done!

If I show these photos to Jeremy, you'll be screwed! We will see who will have the last laugh!'