Chapter 39 (1/2)

Chapter 39: Black Out

He Meng hesitated for a htly held his hand, her body nearly touching his face She reached out with her other hand and with great effort helped him secure his seatbelt

Gu shi+, watching fro She suddenly felt a pain in her chest Was it jealousy? Anger? Yet it see her, but after all they weren’t together It wasn’t worth bothering with She quickly flagged down a taxi and got in and shut the door

A gentle breeze blew and Zhang Chi suddenly opened his eyes and sat up “Gu shi+, Gu shi+,” he mumbled indistinctly

He Meng let go of his hand, her fingertips still war Chi reluctantly In an instant he had beco slow and heavy, calm

She wiped her sudden tears and started the engine and ht traffic She knew the way back well, but the old class beside her was so unfaed clearly It was no longer her iination

Gu shi+ was a soft, feminine police officer She was talented and attractive If even Zhang Chi was not good enough for her, then what kind of man was?”

Just then she realized why her heart ached She wasn’t sad because Zhang Chi loved someone else, it was et the woman he loved The lected and looked down on by that other wo him loose in order to capture him But that in itself to her was shaas and quickly sped past car after car

In the hazy h his cell phone alarht was that He Meng had helped hiered inside Only half-awake, he had distinctly felt a cool toiping him off With difficulty he was helped out of his day clothes and into his night clothes She had asked hile word He see over and over, but he couldn’t remember what

He noticed a bottle of htstand and it suddenly came back to him a little He only remembered that he was hazy and parched, and soon a streahtly parted mouth like cool stream, but it felt like cotton candy, sweet and soft He was like a man in the desert who couldn’t wait to lap up water fro up sater Mysteriously, this cold water seemed to also carry warmth His eyelids were so heavy he couldn’t keep them open He finished off the water and lay down and went back to sleep

Zhang Chi wasn’t certain what had happened He looked down He still wore the pants he had on the night before at the party That made him feel a bit better

This was his first ti out There was probably soical standpoint, or maybe his low spirits had increased the affect of the alcohol, but if He Meng had not come to his aid, his cautious personality would have allowed hiet drunk

If Gu shi+ wasn’t in the picture, he and He Meng… But noas tis it was less painful to say it early rather than later Besides, he was now incapable of loving other women

He called He Meng, as peppy and girly as usual Hisplans to meet her at a coffee shop close to the branch office

He hung up and looked at his watch, then hurried into the bathrooe, and was out the door in less than five minutes He sped past cars on the road When he stepped into the office, Gu Zhichang was pacing around in a circle He saw hi , your vacation has been approved Hurry and book your hotel and plane tickets to wherever you’re going”

That day He Meng was late Zhang Chi sat outside at the coffee shop, looking over the h heels

Her face was slightly flushed, but her lightly powdered face was even ht blue dress paired with creaernails and toenails painted cat’s eye sapphire blue Several wo Chi with envy, but she just ignored the Chi He had to admit, his vanity swelled to its limit at that moment

“Did you sleep well last night?” He Meng lowered her head and pushed back her hair and looked at the menu

Zhang Chi took a drink of his iced coffee and set his glass down His Ada Every ti shocked him with her beauty Yet he was about to ruthlessly reject her face to face

He Meng looked up at him and didn’t continue her earlier topic of conversation She reached into her bag and handed him some information “This is the reality show I told you about before They’re fil it in Bali due to the special nature of the star My friend is the producer, so I went ahead and signed you up Should be around the time of your annual leave You’re not mad at me are you?”