No Substitutes for the Bigshots' Dream Girl Anymore!-Chapter 1936: Hayes Edwards Extra (93)

It was like playing a game, starting to find the places in this city that were different from her memories.

Hayes Edwards took Grace Winter to a newly opened restaurant nearby.

While eating, Hayes had many questions he wanted to ask, but in the end, he didn’t ask any of them. 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

It was like a competition — if he asked first, wouldn’t it mean he had remembered her all these years?

An inexplicable desire to win made Hayes choose to stay silent.

The meal ended as it used to, with mostly Grace talking, and Hayes maintaining a consistently indifferent attitude.

When getting in the car, Grace carefully sized up Hayes’s expression, but quickly looked away when he glanced over, like a frightened rabbit, sitting obediently.

Hayes felt inexplicably irritated and coldly said, "Seatbelt."

Grace responded with an "Oh" and hurriedly fastened her seatbelt, sitting like a primary school student.

Hayes let out a quiet laugh.

The drive from the restaurant back to the apartment complex was only ten minutes. It was the weekend, so the neighborhood was bustling.

Grace leaned against the car window, watching the children play with a basketball until the car drove into the underground garage, then she retracted her gaze and sat properly again just like before.

When the car stopped, Hayes didn’t immediately open the door.

Grace also didn’t move, sitting obediently, not even unfastening her seatbelt.

Hayes didn’t say anything, and the car was very quiet.

Grace quietly turned her head to see Hayes’s expression, but from this angle, she could only see his profile, shrouded in shadow, just like in their youth, carrying a cold aura, hard to approach.

"Grace Winter."

He suddenly spoke, startling Grace.

She quickly sat up straight and answered obediently, "I’m here."

Hayes turned his head to look at her, remained silent for a few seconds, and then said in a low voice, "Forget it, let’s get out."

The car door locks were unlocked.

Hayes got out of the car first, and Grace also unfastened her seatbelt, got out, closed the door, and caught up with him.

The two of them took the elevator upstairs together.

In the elevator, there was another silence. After the brief and intense joy of reuniting, there was silence once more.

Finally, Grace was the first to speak, softly asking, "Hayes, do you still want cake tomorrow?"

It seemed only this nickname could prove their twelve years of childhood friendship.

Hayes felt a fire in his belly, upset with himself, but when he spoke, he was not angry at all, "Yes."

After returning home, Hayes angrily shut himself in his room.

Frustrated.

Annoyed with himself for being won over by such a small piece of cake.

Although that cake was indeed delicious, that was not the point.

The point was that she left without saying goodbye back then and didn’t contact him.

Before sleeping, Hayes thought to himself that when he met with Grace tomorrow, he would surely question her as to why she left without a word, and then sever ties with her.

Tell her that he has always disliked her tagging along, ever since kindergarten.

However, the next day...

Grace was joyfully waiting at the door, offering her little cake, "Hayes, today’s is your favorite strawberry flavor."

Hayes: "...Okay."

In the year of their reunion, Hayes was twenty years old, and Grace was eighteen.

Hayes always thought that in this childhood friendship, Grace was the one who was always under his control, but in the end, he realized that he had been breaking his own boundaries for her from the very beginning.

He always said he didn’t like Grace, yet he still allowed her to follow behind him.