A Moment in Destiny

Chapter 275 Ignoring His Gift

Vincent was at a loss. Did he say anything wrong? Or was she just taking advantage of his weakness? How could she ignore his gift like that? Damn, was he just too gentle with her which then gave her the impression she could treat him this way?

Suddenly feeling irritated, Vincent lit a cigarette and breathed out some white smoke. He thought this would calm him down but instead, it made him more irritated, so he stood up suddenly and walked out.

When he reached the door, he heard the sound of slamming a door which made him then walk quickly towards the guest room. He wanted to push the door to open it. However, his hand stopped when he reached the door, and he thought what was he doing?

To ingratiate himself with her?

Why should he?

He pursed his lips and his face turned gloomy. He then turned around and walked towards the study.

As soon as Leila had entered the room, she buried her body inside her blanket, feeling upset. What was wrong with her?

That was the first time he had given her a gift, and it was such a beautiful laptop that she had always dreamed of, but she rejected it. However, sometimes a person’s self-respect and pride were the most important things.

In the morning.

Leila woke up early in the morning and opened her door at the same time that the master bedroom door was opened.

In the corridor, the two of them were taken aback when they saw each other.

Vincent snorted coldly. Obviously, he was still angry.

Leila was quite nervous. She said quietly, “Good morning!”

His expression was sharp with his lips tight together, and as he glanced intensely at her he walked over to her with a steady pace.

Leila felt a little nervous and didn’t know what to say so she just stood frozen by the door. As she peeked at him cautiously, she saw that he was frowning and looking quite sad.

However, she then heard his low and deep voice from above her that said, “I asked someone to throw the computer at your school away overnight.”

Humph!

She didn’t need this one anymore.

“What?” Leila’s eyes opened wide in surprise.

“It was thrown away.” He said, seemingly quite proud. “Yesterday.”

“You, how could you do that?” She was finding it hard to believe and began to tremble all over. How could he be so impudent like this? “But that was mine, how could you do that?”

Leila pushed him strongly and ran away. She was still wondering how could he do that?

“Hey! Where are you going?” Vincent didn’t expect that she would run away like this, so he chased after her.

But Leila kept on running while Vincent kept on chasing after her. “Where are you going?”

“It has nothing to do with you, I’m going to get my computer back, I mean, what right did you have to do that to my computer?” She said while running, her voice choked with sobs.

“Everything of yours is mine, including your computer.” He really didn’t understand, he had kindly replaced it with a new one but she didn’t seem to appreciate this and this made him furious.

But, Leila just kept on running. She didn’t even get her purse or phone. She only had one thought in her mind which was to rush back to school and get her computer back. Even if she didn’t know if it was even possible to get it back.

She really could not accept Vincent’s action. Why did he think he can simply throw away her things? The computer was valuable to her. Growing up she didn’t have many things that belonged to her, and this computer was something she had after working hard for a long time.

Vincent watched her hurriedly running out of the front door and really wondered why was she so angry this early in the morning.

So, he went back to his villa and took his car key, and got in the car to chase after her. However, he then thought about how crazy he was to actually chase after her.

The car stopped about 50 metres ahead of her. Leila was still running and she was startled by the car which stopped suddenly, but Vincent then got out and walked over to her with a blank expression. “Why are you acting so crazy? What are you trying to do so early in the morning?”

Leila didn’t say anything but just bit her lip as she walked past him.

She told herself that she must restrain herself and just focus on finding her computer. This computer was the most important possession because it contained very important memories for her, such as her photos, papers, and her four-year university memories. She even kept her diary inside the computer, so for her, it was very important and valuable.

But, he decided to throw it away and she couldn’t understand how he could do that?

“Damn it!” Vincent cursed in a low voice, “Where are you going, I can take you!”

“No need, I just want my computer back,” she said sadly.

“But it’s already been thrown away, it was moved long ago from now.” He yelled out.

“I want to get it back!” She yelled back and continued to run.

However, he grabbed her arm and pulled her towards the car. He put her inside. “Foolish girl, I have never seen you act so stupidly before!”

Yes, she was foolish!

She was foolish to be threatened by him into this marriage that had been arranged too quickly.

She wanted to open the car door but he locked it. He wasn’t in a hurry to drive back so instead, he lit a cigarette which then made the car smell of tobacco which was a bit suffocating.

Leila became very anxious as the trash cans in her school were usually emptied between 6:30 and 7 in the morning. It was just after 6 right now so there was still a chance for her to get her computer back. “Let me go!”

Vincent continued to smoke his cigarette and ignored her. He then narrowed his eyes and said in a deep voice, “Even if you were to get to your school now, you wouldn’t be able to find it because I asked them to move your computer to another location.”

Hearing his words, Leila was stunned and asked anxiously, “Where did you move it to?”

“The computer is really that important? Is there something you want to hide from others inside it?” Vincent seemed unhappy by how much she seemed to care about the computer and frowned.

Leila bit her lip, feeling very disappointed. However, she carried on staring stubbornly at Vincent, with tears in her eyes.

Vincent was more annoyed seeing her behaviour.

As she continued to stare at him, her eyes were mixed with traces of impatience, annoyance but also with fascination. He was staring at her too, their gazes intersected, both with their thoughts.

“Give it back to me!” she said.

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Leila bit her lips tightly. Her tears almost rolled down her cheeks.

Vincent leaned over against her and reached out to her unexpectedly. He put his arm around her, embracing her. He then pulled her closer to him.

With no time to react and unable to resist his strength, she was pulled closer to him and was hit by the strong smell of tobacco and cologne.

He then used his hand to hold her chin and leaned in to kiss her lips. Their tongues met and she tasted the tobacco from the cigarette he had just smoked.

“Ah, please don’t.” Leila was starting to feel suffocated.

However, Vincent refused to let her go and continued to kiss her deeply. Still feeling suffocated by his kiss, Leila’s tense body turned limp and her mind was blank. Vincent then bit her lips until they turned red and said in her ear, “Don’t let me find out the secret in your computer that you don’t want others to see.”

He pressed against her ear and let out a breath burning her earlobe slightly which made Leila couldn’t help but tremble.

“Give it back to me…”

“No.” He said rather domineeringly.

“I want to get out of the car!” Leila said and thought that just because he kissed her didn’t mean she would forget about her rights.

“Fool!” He cursed.

“Let me go!” She repeated.

Feeling annoyed, he opened the car door and said, “Get out!”

Leila pursed her lips, got out of the car, and walked down the hill alone. No matter what, she still had to go to her school and try to find her computer.

But Vincent didn’t expect her to get out of the car, damn it, she was really stubborn which made him very angry. So, in the end, he was not even sure why he just drove behind her, following her.

Leila didn’t know how long she had been walking, but she was interchanging between walking and running. She walked whenever she felt tired.

Vincent looked at the car’s dashboard and saw she had actually walked 3 kilometres already. Frowning still, he looked at her coldly and stubbornly continued to watch her from behind.

However, Leila suddenly staggered and nearly fell. Vincent gripped the steering wheel tight and had no choice but to keep driving forward. Was she really planning to walk to school like this? She had to walk for at least 10 kilometres in total and she was still on her period, did she want to exhaust herself?

So, he got out of the car again and ran to catch up with her.

Leia was indeed very tired from walking, then the fatigue caused by her menstruation made her almost collapse. Even if he was following her, she didn’t appreciate it, since after all if he didn’t ask people to throw away her computer, then her computer wouldn’t have been thrown away.

Vincent stood in front of her and said rather solemnly, “Don’t you want that laptop I gave you? If not, don’t even think that there is a chance you will get your computer back!”

Leila was taken aback and then something suddenly something seemed to flash in her mind and she finally realised what had happened, could it be that…?

“You, are you just angry because I didn’t accept the laptop?” She wasn’t so sure if it was because of this.

Vincent looked down and snorted, showing a strange expression. Was he embarrassed?

Leila then knew for sure it was because of this, and she suddenly felt bad and lowered her head as she said, “I’m sorry, I didn’t realize that this was the reason…”

Vincent curled his lips and reached out to hold her in place. He looked up at her. He saw that her expression was tinged with guilt. He thought in his heart, was he too bad?

As he looked at her red lips that he had just bitten, he was attracted and wanted to do something to her again. He drew his breath and said unnaturally, “I will give it back to you tomorrow.”

“Really?” She was pleasantly surprised and she couldn’t help but grab his arm, “Is it real? Little Vin?”

Little Vin?

Vincent didn’t really like being referred to like this, he felt it was only something a young child would use to call someone, so he was speechless.

Vincent opened the car window and threw the cigarette outside and then said in a deep voice, “Can we go back home now?”

“Yes!” Leila then lowered her head to answer and said with her face red, “Sorry, I didn’t know you just had good intentions.”

Vincent took her hand. He became more unhappy seeing her so sweaty after walking for so long.

Once Leila heard that she can get her computer back she was very excited, “Didn’t you say that you had thrown the computer away into the trash can?”