Because You Are My Lady novel (Sharon and Stanley)
Chapter 537

Lowering her head, Ariah was searching for the contact in one of Kobi's eyes. Soon, she spotted the contact that was shifted out of place and wanted to take it out for him.

But then, Kobi blinked his eyes and the contact was gone again.

Instantly, Ariah complained, "Hey, don't blink!"

Kobi cleared his throat, apologizing, "Oops, sorry. I couldn't help blinking."

It was an instinctive response.

Nevertheless, Ariah just continued lowering her head, searching for the contact. When her long hair swept across Kobi's cheeks, he felt a little itchy.

Unable to help himself, Kobi's gaze landed on her. She looked very focused. Her red lips were slightly parted and there was the taste of milk tea to her breath which felt hot against his cheeks.

Then, without realizing it, he took a deep breath of her scent.

"Found it!"

Just then, Ariah found the contact and stuck it out with her fingertip.

"This thing could be a little bad for your eyes. Perhaps you should consider wearing glasses in the future," said Ariah as she threw the contact into the bin.

"Okay, will do." Kobi smiled. After the contact was removed, his eye was a little red.

Ariah didn't expect him to listen to her. With a brief pause, she suggested, "Um... do you wanna go to the hospital first? It looks like your eye is a little irritated." "Nah, I'm good." Kobi didn't seem to care. "I can send you home first, then go to the hospital."

"No, I can take a taxi back."

"Well, I insist."

"There's really no need for that..."

"Of course, there's a need for that. As a man, I should always make sure my date returns home safely. Besides, the car is just downstairs..."

A date?

They were just meeting. How was this a date?

Ariah wanted to refute him but didn't know what to say. He might have just said it casually and she could be overthinking.

Since he had been living abroad all these years, this could be one of the manners that he learned. Thinking of this, Ariah had no choice but to compromise.

While waiting for the green light, Kobi hesitated for a moment before asking, "My mother said that you and Jimmy had a divorce. What happened?" Last night, Ella wasn't being nice to Ariah at all. He wanted to ask, but he didn't want to make it too obvious, so he waited until now.

"Ah... there were some misunderstandings between Jimmy and me before."

Instantly, Kobi's gaze deepened. "So you guys really divorced?"

"Um..."

"But judging by Jimmy's attitude yesterday, I think you two are gonna get back together?"

"Well..."

"Yeah?"

Ariah frowned slightly. Kobi seemed to be paying too much attention to this.

She remained silent, to which Kobi shot her a glance, seemingly to know what she was thinking. With a chuckle, he asked, "Am I annoying you?" Quickly, she denied, "Nah, it's just..."

"I'm just concerned about you, Ariah." Kobi cut her off. "If you think it's annoying, just pretend that I never asked that."

Ariah bit her lips. She knew that she must be overthinking again.

Embarrassed, she scratched her head and apologized, "Sorry, I didn't mean that. Please don't be bothered about it." Kobi replied faintly, "I'm not bothered at all."

But he was obviously angry. Ariah let out a long sigh.

Just as her mind was drifting away, Kobi suddenly asked, "Why did you return to Estar all of a sudden back then?"

At that time, Ariah had been pursuing him endlessly. But once he agreed to date her, she abruptly gave up on him and returned home without telling him.

It made him feel like as if he was being played.

Therefore, Kobi had always been wondering about this.

Hearing that, Ariah was stunned for a moment before she answered, "Well... something happened to my family, so I came back."

"What happened?"

"Oh, nothing big..."

"It's only been half a year later since you returned to Estar, and you're married to Jimmy." Kobi stopped the car and turned to look at her deeply.

"Did you meet him here and started dating him since you've broken up with me? And then you married him just like that?"

Ariah parted her lips but didn't know what to say.

"Or did you pursue me out of sheer fun back then? But then it got boring, so you dumped me?"

Gradually, the atmosphere in the car became intense. Kobi locked his gaze onto her and asked seriously, "Ariah, were you playing with my feelings?"

Of course not!

Ariah recalled what she had done. Back then, she was rash and willful, thinking that Kobi was the man she had always been looking for. So, she followed him abroad with determination, only to find out later that he was not the person she was admiring.

Therefore, she quickly retreated. She was timid.

Later on, Kobi never called her to get back together, neither did he question her. She thought that things were just gonna go past like that...

Well, it did go past and she had not seen Kobi again for all these years.

But now, he suddenly came back, stirring up their past that was already covered in dust.

Ariah looked at Kobi apologetically. "Well... it's in the past already. You now have Emily, and I have Jimmy, so let's not mention the past anymore, okay?"

She knew Kobi too well. Although he looked gentle and generous, inside, he was extremely stubborn. If she told him the truth, he would probably not let it go.

"No way!" Kobi stared at her. "You owe me an explanation."

Ariah looked away. "Do you really wanna know?"

"Yes!"

"Well, back then, I... mistook you for someone else."

Slowly, Ariah revealed the truth without daring to look into Kobi's eyes. "I thought you were him, so I took the initiative to pursue you. However, later on, I realized that you weren't him..." That was why she chose to return to her homeland.

Upon she said that, the atmosphere in the car went dead silent.

After a long while, Kobi's hoarse voice finally sounded. "Who did you mistake me as?"

Ariah closed her eyes and took a deep breath. "Jimmy."

She mistook Kobi for Jimmy.

That time, returning from the Myers Family, Jimmy had once questioned her angrily if she had ever liked someone else, but the truth was, she never liked anyone else but Jimmy. However, she had always kept this to herself, so she didn't know how Lindsey knew about this.

And later on, Lindsey told Jimmy about this, trying to sow discord between them.