Chapter 216 Her Proposal

[Should I be happy that he has so many varieties of ladies' clothes in his wardrobe or should I be worried he might use this opportunity to bring ladies home]

Joanna shook ahead, noticing that she was beginning to think negatively again.

Joanna changed into a green V-Neck silk dress and a pair of ripped blue jeans. She sat on the bed and waited for him to come out.

She sat there for fifteen minutes and yet Amos didn't come out of the bathroom nor did she hear movements inside.

She became very worried when she called out and he didn't respond.

"Are you ok, Kay?" Joanna now standing in front of the brown door knocked with worry on her face.

She placed her right ear in the door and tried to listen.

"I will pull out the door if…,"

"Don't," Amos, whose grip was holding firm onto the edges of the white bathtub, replied with gritted teeth.

"Stop panicking and wait for me in the sitting room. I will be out in a minute," Amos said with his eyes closed.

"Are you sure you are….,"

"Just do like I said hmmm?" Amos cut in when he realised that the stubborn lady would not listen to his instructions.

Joanna removed her ear from the door and stood straight. "If you say so then I will do just that," Joanna said, her gaze concentrated on the door.

The way she stared at the door was as if she could see through the brick wall.

Amos exhaled deeply the moment he heard the bedroom door jammed close.

[It's taking so much time to get this damn thing to return to its normal size. I wonder what on Earth I got myself into]

Amos was in deep thought as he continued to soak himself in the chilled water.

For ten more minutes, he continued to stay inside the bathtub filled with water. Joanna panicked once again when he still didn't come out despite waiting for him in the sitting room for so long.

"Let me go in and confirm whether everything is fine with him," the restless Joanna muttered standing up from the couch.

She didn't take up to five steps away from the centre table that Amos emerged from the room.

"Are you ok?" Joanna asked worriedly as she scanned his body with her sharp eyes.

"What could possibly be wrong with me?" Amos replied with his head held high.

He walked to the centre table where his materials were kept without giving her a chance to pry further.

He wasn't confident he would be able to keep on the tough font if she went on asking questions for five minutes.

He shrugged his shoulders, not daring to think about the hell he would go through in that five minutes.

Joanna chooses to ignore the awkwardness that envelopes the room following his arrival. She spun and returned to her position on the couch at his right-hand side.

At the centre table, despite focusing his attention on the screen of the laptop in front of him, the uncomfortable Amos wasn't able to concentrate on anything with Joanna's piercing eyes focused on him.

Outwardly he looked so calm unbeknownst to Joanna that a war was taking place inside his mind.

"Weren't you planning to go out with someone so how come you are still here?" Amos, who couldn't handle it anymore asked as he dropped the file in his hand on the keypad.

"Wouldn't the person get angry for standing him up for so long?" Amos asked as he lowered his gaze and took a peek at his wristwatch.

He was stunned to see that an hour had passed since Joanna graced his home with her presence.

How time flies.

This made him recall the statement 'That a thousand years with a loved one feels like a year while a year without your loved ones feels like ten thousand years.

"You guessed it right when you said I had plans to go out with someone but you got it wrong when you said the person would get angry for getting stood up," Joanna said, her gaze concentrated on his face.

In the past, she tends to avoid his face when talking but lately, she realised that she takes more delight in looking at him as she speaks.

"He wouldn't get upset no matter how late I arrive at our appointment," Joanna said with so much confidence that made Amos wonder whom she was referring to.

"And how are you so sure of it?" Amos asked, his doubtful glares focused on Joanna.

"Hmmm… Because I know him that well. Also, he is the one who gave me this confidence," Joanna said, a beautiful smile lingering on her pretty face as she crossed her long legs.

"And who is that?" Amos asked with a blank expression. "Little rice ball, Audrey or a new friend?" He added, his voice a little lower than usual.

"And why did you omit your name from the list huh?" Joanna asked, frowning.

Through her expression, it dawned on him that he might be the one she was referring to.

His heart pounded as he stared at her affectionately. "Are you trying to say I am the one you are talking about?" Amos guessed nervously.

"Apart from Little rice ball, which other guy is the closest to me except you? And why did it take you so much time to discover that you were the one I was talking about… or don't tell me, you think I am wrong?" Joanna questioned as she clutched her hand into a fist.

"If I am the one you are talking about then does that mean you are planning to ask me out on a date?" Amos asked. He tried as much as he could not to show his feelings on his face.

Joanna didn't reply to his question. She took her time before she decided that it was the right time to say the words.

She exhaled deeply and raised her gaze so that she was looking directly at his eyeballs.

Joanna mustered up all the courage j in her and asked, "Will you go out on a date with me?".

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A/N:

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