Chapter 298: A Bit Shameless, Right?

Chapter 298 A Bit Shameless, Right?

Gloria dressed up so beautifully just to wreck Harrison's family. Seeing the way Gloria looked at Harrison with such fascination, Lily was convinced that Gloria had bad intentions.

Thinking about this, Lily's sense of crisis grew even stronger.

She took her little steps and headed to the café.

At that moment, Gloria looked at Harrison, who was still young and handsome across from her, her eyes revealing deep affection.

After carefully applying her makeup, she asked Harrison softly, "Harrison, we haven't seen each other in years. How have you been?"

She believed that, given how much Harrison had liked her back then, once she said these words, Harrison would definitely fall into her arms.

After all, she was the woman Harrison had loved but couldn't have back in the day. And in high school, when Harrison was being bullied by a thug, she was the one who, as a girl, stood up for him and got him out of that crisis.

She had heard from their classmates that Harrison really liked her.

Back then, she had wanted to have some fun with Harrison, too, but because of her parents' work, she had moved away.

Later, she heard from classmates that after she left, Harrison was sad for a long time. Her status as Harrison's true love had already spread like wildfire among their circle of friends.

Gloria had always looked down on this kind of cheap affection. Over the years, she had heard things about Harrison from their classmates, but she never paid attention.

Until she saw in the newspaper that Harrison was getting married, she suddenly felt a strong sense of crisis.

Harrison, who had always liked her, was going to marry another woman? How could that be?

Even if she didn't like a man, she didn't want him to marry another woman.

What she enjoyed most was snatching men who liked her away from other women, and then discarding them.

Faced with Gloria's greeting, Harrison didn't respond. He sat upright, his deep eyes looking at the radiant Gloria before him.

He asked, "Haven't you been doing well living out of town? Why did you decide to come back now?"

Gloria smiled at Harrison. After a moment, she lowered her head, and when she looked up again, her eyes were filled with tears right in front of Harrison.

Gloria believed that no man could resist such temptation from her.

Sobbing, she said to Harrison, "Because I missed you."

"Harrison, haven't you thought about me at all these years?"

"I remember you said back then that if by the time I turned twenty-eight, you weren't married and I wasn't married, you would marry me. Does what you said still count?"

Gloria's words made Harrison feel extremely uncomfortable.

He scratched his head somewhat helplessly. It seemed Simon had guessed right—Gloria came back this time to make him fulfill the promise he made as a teenager.

But back then, he was still very young. He never thought that a casual remark would become the shackles Gloria now used to control him.

Seeing Harrison remain silent, Gloria sneered inwardly.

She knew it—Harrison was caught in a difficult choice.

She was the woman he had admired most in his youth, while the one he was about to marry was a woman who had been through thick and thin with him and had given birth to three children for him.

Whatever choice he made would be wrong.

If he chose Elena and let Gloria down, he would be the man with the worst reputation in their circle.

But if he married Gloria and abandoned Elena and the children, he would become the most irresponsible man in the world.

Gloria loved turning a man's life upside down.

Seeing Harrison unable to make up his mind, she reached out and placed her hand over Harrison's.

With tears in her eyes, she asked Harrison, "Harrison, will you marry me?"

At this moment, Harrison snapped back to reality. He reached out and removed Gloria's hand from his.

Then he said firmly, "I'm sorry, Gloria. I'm getting married."

When Gloria heard Harrison say he was getting married, tears suddenly streamed down her cheeks. She looked as heartbroken as if her father had died.

"Harrison."

Gloria called out weakly.

Harrison continued to reject her, "Gloria, my fiancée is a wonderful woman. She's beautiful and excellent. She gave birth to three children for me. I love her very much, so I'm willing to marry her."

"What happened between you and me was all back in school when we were teenagers. Our relationship is just a friendship between classmates."

"The woman I love is not you, so I can't marry you. I hope you can give me your blessing for my wedding."

When it came to who he would marry, Harrison rejected Gloria without any hesitation. He knew clearly who the woman was that would spend the rest of his life with him.

Gloria never expected that Harrison, who had admired her back then, would actually reject her when she showed her affection.

She wasn't used to rejection.

Of course, she wouldn't give Harrison any wedding blessings, and she wouldn't watch Harrison walk into the wedding hall happily with another woman.

Thinking about this, she decided to back off temporarily.

She continued speaking to Harrison tenderly, "Harrison, it's okay. Since you're marrying her, I'll bless you both."

"But I can't forget you, and I can't forget that pure feeling we had when we were in school. I just want to be with you, no matter who you marry."

"Harrison."

Having said this, Gloria reached out her hand to Harrison once again.

Her eyes were full of affection, and her behavior was full of seduction toward Harrison. She believed that no man could escape her charm.

Just as she was passionately showing her love to Harrison, Lily happened to arrive at the café holding her doll.

Before she even reached Harrison's side, she heard Gloria's words.

Young as she was, having spent so much time with Mia and Connor, Lily had picked up a thing or two. She immediately understood what Gloria meant.

If she understood correctly, Gloria was saying she wanted to be Harrison's mistress, right?

How shameless did she have to be to say something like that?

If Elena found out about this, how heartbroken would she be? Elena was someone she had finally found, and she didn't want Elena to be hurt at all.

She had to protect Elena with her own actions.

To protect Elena from harm, the usually timid Lily found courage from somewhere. Holding her doll, she quickly walked to Harrison's side.

When Harrison saw her, his eyes were full of surprise.

Just as he was about to speak to Lily, Lily threw the sarcastic remark she had been thinking about for so long right at Gloria.

"Gloria, you're pretty shameless, aren't you?"