Chapter 242 Veronica’s Attempt to Introduce a Girlfriend to Him
In the end, Veronica heard him solemnly mentioning, “I’ll buy you everything that you like.”
Instantly, the smile on her face disappeared. Despite her having a face mask covering her face, he could sense her frown, and so he knew she was quite displeased. “How can I possibly finish all this?! If you don’t want to eat them, just say so! You’re being wasteful by buying so much!”
Matthew replied, “I have plenty of money.”
He said that nonchalantly and he was completely unperturbed by her angry retort. On the contrary, his words had an indulgent note to them.
“I can buy them myself. I don’t need you to pay for me! Hmph!” Veronica glared at him furiously as she muttered, “Wastrel.”
“I’m your godbrother, so by right, I should pay for your purchases.”
He had a face mask covering his face and the only visible part was his pretty-looking dark eyes. From the look in his eyes, one could clearly see the doting expression in them. He was clearly expressing his feelings as a grown male doting on an attractive female, but he insisted that it was a brother’s affection for his sister.
At that moment, Veronica—holding on to a packet of salt and vinegar potato chips in her hand—paused momentarily in her action, and she instantly turned around to avoid the intense look in his eyes.
She was clearly aware of Matthew’s feelings toward her, but she continued to force a silly smile on her face. “Oh, you’ve shown improvement.” She clenched her hands into fists and lightly punched him on the chest. “That’s right; you’re my brother, so you should behave righteously that way.”
“I…”
Matthew stared intently at her with a tender yet complicated look in his eyes. He seemed to have something to bring up, but on second thought, he reckoned that she seemed to have a bad impression of him and that she was quite against their huge age gap, so perhaps it was wiser to continue developing their relationship as siblings for the time being.
After all, he had a higher chance of success if they remained closely in touch. Over time, one would definitely develop feelings for the other after spending time together, so there was no need to rush into things.
As soon as Matthew realized this, he instantly changed his words. “I don’t like snacks.”
“You don’t like going grocery shopping, and neither do you enjoy snacks. Where’s the fun in your life, huh?” As soon as Veronica heard him claim that he should pay for her as her brother, the pressure she felt from before dissipated without a trace.
It seemed she had achieved her goal of coming to Kings Residence tonight.
“Do they taste good?” He lifted his brows and glanced at the snacks in the shopping cart as he asked.
“Of course!”
Veronica waved the packet of salt and vinegar potato chips in her hand and replied excitedly, “Did you know, back when I was in school, I would open up a packet of chips as the teacher taught in front of the class? I would hide the chips behind a book and secretly enjoy them under the table.”
As she was quite excited, she reached out to pull down her face mask. She stood by his side and spoke as they continued walking. “In the end, do you know what happened? As soon as I opened the bag of salt and vinegar chips, the smell of vinegar filled the entire classroom. The teacher caught a whiff of it and she managed to identify where it came from accurately. She grabbed a pencil and flung it at me. It hit me squarely on the forehead and then… And then I was kicked out of the classroom. As punishment, I had to stand by the corridor for the entire period. The next time I ate salt and vinegar chips in class again, I was caught by the same teacher, so she banished me to the flag stand of the sports ground. From then on, I was famous in the entire school for this embarrassing matter of eating salt and vinegar chips in class.”
The man by her side listened as she shared the interesting things that had happened to her in her schooling years. He couldn’t help picturing her naughty self in his mind, and he laughed out loud as he teased her, “No wonder you’re quite stupid. It must be because you didn’t study well in school.”
“That’s not true! I was very smart during my schooling years and I even gained a scholarship with my results.” She smugly showed off to Matthew her glorious past.
Meanwhile, he nodded his head slightly and there was an impressed look in his eyes as he kept his eyes on her and smiled without saying anything.
They continued to browse the grocery store and selected some snacks and groceries before paying for the items.
While they were paying for the items, Matthew stood at the back while Veronica stood in front to pack the items into bags. At that moment, she heard the cashier suddenly say in a soft voice, “Wow! Your boyfriend’s really handsome. He looks like President Kings from the Spinfluence Group.”
Veronica did not expect the cashier to know Matthew, so she smiled and replied, “He’s my brother. However, he’s not comparable at all to that rich guy that you just mentioned.”
The cashier’s face flushed pink as she glanced at Matthew from time to time but didn’t dare to look him in the eye. “Oh, so he’s your brother, huh? Does he have a girlfriend?”
“Huh?” Veronica was slightly taken aback. Are girls so straightforward in their intentions nowadays?
Suddenly, an idea popped into her mind, and she immediately shook her head earnestly. “Nope. Not at all. My brother doesn’t have a girlfriend. Hey, you’re so pretty. Why don’t you share your contact details with him?”
“Sure!”
The cashier was considered to have a fair complexion with beautiful features as well. She lifted her head and looked at Matthew with sparkling eyes. “Handsome guy, let’s swap numbers, alright?” Gosh, he’s so handsome and he’s almost six feet tall. He has such charisma too. Besides, he looks so handsome and cool, plus he doesn’t have a girlfriend! This is great!
“No, that’s not necessary.”
He rejected her rudely, with a thunderous look on his face. This annoying woman! She seems to be in a haste to sell me off to another woman! Since when am I so worthless?! I’ve never been outrightly rejected to such an extent!
“Huh?” The cashier was stunned, and there was a look of disappointment that flashed across her eyes.
At that moment, Veronica kicked Matthew. “You could befriend each other and keep in contact. Anyway, you don’t have a girlfriend.”
As soon as she finished her sentence, he shot a cold look at her and held his gaze for a moment before turning to the cashier. He spoke in a magnetic voice, “I’m sorry. I’m not interested in women.”
His words were so shocking that the others around them turned their heads to look at him at that moment.
“Y-You… You’re not interested in women?” The cashier lamented as she scanned their items with the barcode machine.
Even as the others lined up to pay behind them started to point fingers at Matthew, they also looked at him with odd expressions on their faces.
“He’s such a handsome man, but he’s not interested in women!”
“Although it’s quite common, it’s still such a shame because of his good looks.”
“Darn it. This man’s partner must be extremely handsome too. We girls can’t even find a decent man, and yet we’ve lost out on two handsome men here. Gosh!”
“Judging by his aura, he should be the dominant one in the relationship.”
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Meanwhile, Veronica heard the crowd’s comments and the peculiar looks that they shot at him, and she wished she could stick her head into the ground. This is so embarrassing! I’m so embarrassed!
She looked at Matthew, who had an indifferent and calm look on his face as she quickly said, “I’ve a stomach ache. I’ll leave first. Take your time to pay.”
The cashier totaled up their bill and spoke up, “Hi, that comes to a total of 398.5.
He paid the bill, took the items in his arms, and walked off.
Meanwhile, the speculative voices behind him grew louder, but he was unperturbed by everything.
He walked out of the grocery store and went straight to the underground car park. Veronica was waiting for him beside the car by then. As soon as she saw him approach the car, she rolled her eyes at him. “There were so many people there earlier. How dare you mention that you prefer the same gender! Aren’t you afraid of being on the front page of the newspaper tomorrow?”
She was quite impressed with how he held his composure. After all, she was so awkward when faced with that situation earlier on.
Matthew took the items and walked to the back of her car. Subsequently, he opened the trunk and placed the items inside.
He shut the trunk and walked to stand in front of Veronica. With a cold look in his eyes, he looked down at the woman in front of him and reached out to lift her chin. “Do not fool around next time.”
“I…”
She opened her mouth and tried to say something, but before she could even get a word across, he had retracted his hand. “Good night. You should go home.”
He got into his car and drove off.
The reason why Matthew walked off so swiftly was that he knew Veronica had made a U-turn and gone to the grocery store because she didn’t want him to know where she was staying.
