novelraw Chapter 122: First Love
Chapter 122: First Love
Chapter 122 - First Love"Is tonight the reason you've been so tense? We can talk now if you want..."
Adam shook his head and let out a quiet sigh before answering her, "Some things need to wait. I will talk to you, but not tonight."
A brief silence settled between them as both returned to their unspoken thoughts. Melanie turned her head to look out of the window. She didn't know why but because of the way Adam was right now and had been for the last couple of weeks, she somehow had a feeling that something big was going to happen. And soon.
Meanwhile, Adam's fingers tightened around the steering wheel and his knuckles turned slightly white from the pressure. After a moment, he spoke again, being careful to keep his voice neutral.
"If Spencer had truly loved you," he asked, his gaze fixed on the road ahead, "despite marrying you for the will... would you have forgiven him?"
Melanie turned her head sharply, caught off guard by the unexpected question. Her eyes widened slightly as she studied Adam's expression,
Melanie nodded and continued to look at him as he frowned and patted his face. There was something really on his face.
But then, Melanie spoke up," Well, you always have smugness on your face that makes one want to slap you but now you have some kind of anticipation o your face and I don't know wht that is."
His lips twitched then and he tried to wipe his face of all expressions," Thank you for yuor restraint in not slapping me, Melon. And I will try to keep the anticipation at bay."
"Meaning you are not going to tell me the reason for your weird behaviour?"
Before he could answer her, Melane realized that his attention had suddenly turned elsewhere.
Following his line of sight, Melanie turned her head slightly, wanting to look what it was that had caught his attention. And then she saw them.
Her eyebrows raised and then she could not help but murmur," Isn't that woman a little too young for your grandfather?"
She expected Adam to respond with his usual dry humor, maybe a sarcastic remark or a quip to deflect the situation, but he said nothing. His silence made her glance up at him, and that was when she noticed the way his entire posture had changed.
Melanie hadn't even been aware that the old man was dating someone so young—someone who looked close to her own age, if not younger. Maybe she was only speculating and she was only Robert Collins' date for tonight.
"Of course, she's young," he muttered, his teeth gritted. "She was my classmate in school."
Melanie's eyes widened slightly, but before she could say anything, he continued in that same tense voice, "And my first girlfriend."