Chapter 1916 A Dream
Tears welled up in Nina’s eyes. She tried to hold back her tears, but they rolled down her cheeks nonetheless. Chris gave a half-smile as he gazed at her intently. Slowly, his figure drifted away from her.
“Chris!” Nina yelled and jolted up, panting heavily. Roused by her yell, Maya got up and switched on the lights. “What’s wrong, Nina? Did you have a nightmare?” she asked in astonishment.
Nina glanced at Maya as her dream resurfaced in her mind. “I-I dreamt of Chris. He wants me to be with Stephen!” “He wants you to be happy. Nina, he had picked Stephen for you. I’m certain you’ll be blissful with him!”
Nina nodded thoughtfully. Her heart was aching in anguish, as though she had lost something really important to her. She belatedly realized facing the fact that she had lost someone would also hurt a lot.
Finally, her innocent crush was locked away along with Chris. The next day, both ladies woke up at the same time. Maya examined Nina carefully, but the latter seemed calm as though nothing had happened the night before.
“Let’s get up. We need to go to work after breakfast. I had just completed the research on an amazing set of moisturizing products. You’ll be the first person to try them out when the products are done!”
Maya glanced at her without a word. Since Nina’s talking about her beauty products, it’s obvious she’s feeling better now.
“Nina, you want me to be your lab rat? My face is expensive, so I’ll only consider using your beauty products after you try your products on one hundred people and with a satisfaction rate of one hundred percent. I might also promote your products,” Maya declared.
Nina was busy changing her clothes, so she glanced at Maya and retorted, “You don’t trust my products, huh? I gave my all into the products for over three months and experimented with them over one thousand times before finalizing the formulae! There’s no way I’ll let someone else try the products before they are launched, but you’re my sister. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have offered you the first batch of products.”
Maya thought about it and said, “All right. You can use them first!”
Nina exhaled. “You don’t trust my products. Forget it. I won’t give them to you. You’ll have to preorder the products when they are launched,” she declared heatedly.
After Nina stalked into the bathroom, Maya touched her own face. A few days ago, she saw a woman in her dessert store whose face turned red after using the wrong cosmetic products. I don’t want that to happen to me. So, I need to be careful about the products I use on my face.
When Nina came out of the bathroom, Maya flashed a shy smile. “Nina, I won’t use your beauty products, but you can try the honey shortbread I recently made. I promise you’ll love them.”
Nina cast her a look. “I won’t eat it. What if I get a tummy ache or something similar after eating the stuff you baked?”
“What was that? A-Are you doubting my skills or suspecting me of having the intention to harm you?” Maya huffed.
Nina glanced at her and stated matter-of-factly, “You doubted my beauty products, so why can’t I doubt your shortbread?”
“That’s different. There are different skin types, and using new products recklessly might cause allergies. But food—”
“There are food allergies, too. Some people even suffer from lactose intolerance, right?”
Maya was speechless.
Nina’s being difficult! She’s insulting me on purpose!
“Nina, if I knew you’d do this to me, I wouldn’t have kept you company last night!” she whined.
“Get the facts straight, Maya. You were the one who insisted on hearing the story. I wasn’t the one who invited you to spend a night with me,” came Nina’s answer.
“Hey!” Maya fumed. Nina’s right. I might have been curious, but I was also afraid she’d get upset, so I decided to spend the night with her. Why didn’t she say anything about that?
“Don’t you know that I’m showing my concern to you?”
“No!” Nina rolled her eyes deliberately. If I didn’t know she was concerned about me, I wouldn’t have offered my latest beauty products that I spent so much money to develop to her.
