A Moment in Destiny

Chapter 293 An Intentional Invitation

Upon seeing Leila, Coach Koby asked with a tense face, “Why do you learn taekwondo?”

Leila was stunned as she felt as if his gaze was scrutinizing her. She practiced taekwondo in order to deal with Vincent which this idea she thought was really childish, yet she didn’t want to be bullied by him and that’s the reason she must learn self-defense skills.

“I want to strengthen my body!” Leila said proudly even though she knew that it was wrong to lie, she couldn’t tell the coach that it aimed to resist domestic violence.

“I won’t take you as my student!” Coach Koby said calmly.

“Why?” Leila was surprised.

“I don’t like students who lie!”

Leila’s shoulders collapsed. “You know it! Well, I’m trying to protect myself from perverts and I want to learn as fast as I could to deal with perverts who harass me! This time I’m telling the truth!”

Coach Koby pursed his lips and showed a smile around the corner of his mouth. “Well, it’s ok to learn from me but there are few conditions!”

“What are the conditions?” Leila was surprised as the coach had too many problems!

“No quitting halfway. I have a three-month crash course of self-defense class that you can deal with ordinary perverts! Do you want to learn?”

“Oh, really?” Leila got excited suddenly. “It is ok to learn for only three months!”

“Yes, three months is considered a period and as long as you are willing to practice hard, it works well to help you escape from perverts but not to conquer them. If you are unable to escape, I will refund

your fee but in these three months, you can’t quit halfway, understand?”

“Understand!” Leila nodded her head vigorously. “Only can be used to escape?”

“Yes!”

“It’s ok to just escape from perverts!” Leila sighed in her heart, nothing could be expected to have a result overnight. Exclusive content © by Nô(v)el/Dr/ama.Org.

“When do you have time? I can arrange for your learning time!”

“I am only free in the evening! The rest of the time I have to work!”

“Then you can train for two hours a day from 6pm to 8pm, or from 5am to 7am if you don’t have enough time in the evening, anytime you like!”

At this point, Leila was considered to have paid her respects to the master and agreed to start from tomorrow.

After paying the fee and walking out of the Taekwondo hall, Leila saw an evil but handsome face when she looked up.

Her heart trembled as it was the vice president of the White’s Group whom she had met before, Arthur.

Meanwhile, he was walking inside with a casual black garment on his body and his chest half opened which revealed his sexy and firm muscles while his dark eyes flickered with an inquisitive mist when he looked at Leila. “Huh? Little girl, isn’t this Leila? We meet again!”

Leila was embarrassed and stood up immediately, “Sir, I haven’t returned your clothes and I don’t bring them with me this time!”

“It is just a piece of clothing, just forget about it!” Arthur smiled.

“How can that be? I have to return it to you and I really thanked you last time!”

“You’re welcome, if you want to return it, send it here tomorrow morning at six o’clock!” Arthur pointed the taekwondo hall’s door sign. “I’ll be here tomorrow.”

Arthur seemed to be very busy and he went into the taekwondo hall after saying something while Leila had to leave.

There were no classes today and Leila didn’t need to go to work as the next month she was going back to school to prepare for the dissertation defense so Leila did not need to go back to the unit.

As she walked on the street, she was very tired as Vincent’s excessive demands last night made her headache and she had no strength at all, in addition, her legs were in pain.

When she was back to her condo in the Pearl Community and by the time she was just about to enter the stairs, her phone rang and surprisingly it was Macey calling!

“Hello, Macey!”

“Where are you?”

“Anything wrong, Macey?”

“I’m outside the gates of the Municipal Government, come out for a minute, I need to see you!”

“I’m not there, I’ll be there right now within fifteen minutes. Wait for me!” Leila didn’t know what Macey was looking for but she went there immediately.

When she arrived, she saw Macey, perhaps it was Tuesday morning when everyone was at work, there were not many people on the street, even in front of the gates of the Municipal Government and Macey was standing outside the flower bed behind the pavement.

Leila saw Macey was sideways facing her and her beautiful eyebrows were frowning, Leila then walked over quickly. “Sister?”

“Leila!” As soon as Macey saw Leila, she immediately came forward and shook her hand, yet, her sudden change of attitude made Leila a little surprised and a little uneasy too.

“Sister, what do you want to look for?”

“Actually it is nothing, I just want to have dinner with you!” Macey took Leila’s hands and she was very affectionate.

“Oh!” Leila was a little hesitant, “Just to have dinner?”

“Hmm! What? Don’t you want to go with me?”

“No!” Leila shook her head, “How come, where are we going to eat? What do you want to eat?”

“Let’s go to KFC!”

“Do you really want to eat KFC? Aren’t you afraid of getting fat?” Leila remembered that she never ate fried food as she was afraid that it was bad for her skin, why did she want to eat KFC this time?

Leila was surprised as she was pulled by Macey into the taxi, “Sister, there is a shop just ahead, where are we going?”

“This one is not good!” Macey seemed to be in a hurry and took a phone call halfway. “Hello, Betty, is anyone still there? Alright, got it!”

Five minutes later, at the entrance of another KFC shop, the two got out of the car, Macey still put on a gentle smile on her beautifully made-up face and with a sweep of her eyes, she looked towards the window seat where there was a man in his high-class suit and a child sitting face to face.

A ring of smoke rose in front of him, like a vivid figure in a movie poster. But the child sat opposite frowned, he immediately snuffed out the cigarette and smiled.

As Leila followed in, Macey said, “I’ll go and pick a seat, you go and get the food, I just need a Coke!”

“Oh!” Leila didn’t understand but she obediently went to buy it as she was hungry since last night. She asked for two burgers, two cups of coke and two packets of fries, then she carried the plate and looked for Macey.

Not far away from the same position by the window, Leila saw Macey waving at her and she walked over.

Leila didn’t squint her gaze, otherwise she would have found a man not far away looking at her and it was Vincent. His sharp eyes shot straight at her, giving people a feeling of suffocation, unfortunately, Leila didn’t see it, she walked straight over and sat down opposite Macey. “Sister, see which one you like to take, it is not good for your stomach if you don’t eat as it’s mealtime!”

“Hum!” Macey smiled gently and raised her eyebrow at Vincent’s side, with a hint of provocation in her eyes. Looking at Vincent, Macey spoke to Leila, “Leila, do you like children?”

Leila was unsure but nodded her head. “Well, children are all very cute, I quite like them, what’s wrong?”

“Oh! What would you do if Mr. White suddenly got you a baby?”

Leila was dumbfounded, her grip on the burger tightened and after being silent for a while, she slowly opened the paper of the burger, took a bite and whispered, “The burger tastes good and it still tastes the same from memory!”

“Take a look back!” Macey hummed lightly.

Looking up and turning around, Leila saw Vincent and the child, yet, a flash of hurt slipped through her eyes.

Vincent also looked at her with his sharp eyes narrowed and Leila looked at him as well. There was no anger on this man’s face, not even an expression but there was a pressure that could take one’s breath away.

Leila opened her mouth and was just about to speak when Macey said first, “Leila, I heard that the child is his son, look how much he looks like him! What a surprise, he actually has such a big kid!” Vincent heard Macey’s provocative words and he gently showed a wicked and dangerous smile and spoke to the child opposite the table who was happily eating fries, “Son, eat quickly, Daddy will take you on a roller coaster ride when you are done!”

“Yes, yes, yes!” The little boy clapped his hands in delight.

Leila turned her eyes around and she again heard the child calling him daddy in such a close distance. He looked handsome at first glance as he was very cute looking. She didn’t look closely as she didn’t have the courage so she didn’t know if he looked like Mr. White.

It turned out that Macey asked her to come here just to see Vincent and his son enjoying themselves. It was a pity that Macey didn’t know that she had actually known about this yesterday.

Vincent left with the child, not even glancing at them as he walked away, as if treating them that they didn’t exist.

“That’s his son, his own son!” Macey said.

“His own son!” Leila seemed to repeat. “Alright, I know it!”

“That’s it?”

“What else can it be?” Leila lifted her eyes and looked at Macey, watching her look of dismay, she lowered her head again. “Sister, thank you for your goodwill, there’s nothing I can do about it! He is the one in control and we were controlled by him.”

“That boy’s surname is White, and he calls him Daddy, do you know that? I say that is Vincent’s child, are you foolish, Leila?”

“I know, that is Mr. White’s son! His biological son, you just said it!” Leila remained calm and took another slow bite of her burger.

“I’ll go back and tell Dad!”

“No!” Leila shook her head. “Sister, you should leave this matter alone, pretending you don’t know it!”

“Why?”

“Because I don’t want to make a big mess!”

“Rubbish!” Macey snorted coldly but there was a smug smile in her eyes. “He is bullying!”

“It’s a blessing to suffer a loss!” Leila remained calm but in fact, she had been sad inside, the only thing was that what else could she do?

“Help me to make a phone call.” Once entering the mall, Vincent didn’t even bother to say anything but lifted the landline in front of the cashier's desk and handing it to Pippa Russell.

“Call who?!” Pippa was a little amused as she had never seen Vincent turn to be so anxious for a few years.

“You said you are Leila’s friend and you look for her. If she was not there…” Vincent thought for a moment and looked up, “If not, ask where she has gone.”

“Got it.” Pippa was a little suspicious, but still picked up the receiver.

It was called to the Hunter family as Vincent had called Leila’s phone but it was switched off. She had been with Macey in the morning and switched her phone off in the afternoon, furthermore there was no one in the Pearl Community, and he didn’t want to contact the Hunter family so he could only ask Pippa to help.