A Moment in Destiny

Chapter 306 International Call

“Look. She’s shy. Coach Koby please go ahead with your training. I’ll teach Leila myself.”

Coach Koby blinked and suddenly was enlightened. “Lexi, is Arthur the man you want to fight again?”

“Ah? No, it’s not him.” Leila shook her head. Then she realized something wrong and nodded immediately. “Coach Koby, could you teach me yourself please?”

“I’ll ask Arthur to teach you. He’s good at counter-force. If you want to fight against a man, you should learn from him. As long as you could win against him, you can surely defeat an ordinary man.” Coach Koby left with a smile.

“Ah-- How could this happen?” Leila was speechless.

“Lexi, what now? Don’t you want to be my student?” Arthur crossed his arms on his chest. Rubbing his chin, he walked over, “Or are you afraid that you will have physical contact with me? Don’t worry. We’re lovers. We would have the physical contact sooner or later. It’s just a warm-up. Let’s get familiar with each other in this way.”

Indeed, it was unavoidable to have physical contact when practicing taekwondo. If she agreed, it would mean that she had to touch Arthur’s body shortly. The key point was that this man looked extremely evil but charming, which made her lack security. She always afraid that he would take advantage of her.

“I’m not your girlfriend!” Leila said to Arthur seriously. “I don’t want you to teach me.”

“Why not?”

“I just don’t like it.”

“You do have a strong personality. But I insist on teaching you! I like the challenging work,” Arthur said with a smile, “And it has something to do with changing another person’s personality, which is my

favorite. In other words, if you don’t want to be my student today, I’ll throw you to the floor.”

“You--”

“Me?” Arthur looked solemn. Instantly, his tone because extremely strict. “No, you must get into character now. Or I’ll kick you away!”

“You! You!” Leila was so speechless. She looked into his eyes with stubbornness, only to find that he looked the same as if he didn’t accept to be rejected. She glared at him for a few more seconds, and then she nodded. “Okay. I’ll learn from you!”

“Good! That’s my good girl.” Arthur’s tone became softened again. “Come on. Our first lesson was about the basic knowledge and the training requirements of taekwondo. The most important was the courtesy and etiquette of taekwondo. Also, there are some simple warm-up exercises. Usually, we don’t encourage the practicer to stretch the ligaments forcibly. It needs to be done step by step. Do you know the slogan of taekwondo yet?”

Leila nodded. “Yes. Coach Koby told us yesterday.”

“Then, please repeat it. Let me see if you are so dumb that you’ve forgotten about it after a night.”

Leila frowned. She could only say, “Etiquette and shame, patience and self-denial, and unyielding.”

“Ehn!” Arthur nodded, becoming quite serious. “Next, let’s review the standing posture, sitting posture, and the ways of putting on the taekwondo jacket, tie it, and binding the belt.”

“Can’t you tell me something practical?” Leila asked. “I just want to learn how to kick someone.”

“Your ligaments haven’t been stretched. I can’t teach you that yet!”

“My ligaments work very well.” She used to dance, and her ligaments were quite fLeilable. She could still do the splits now. Her muscles were a little bit stiffened since she hadn’t worked out for a long time.

“Are you or am I the teacher?”

Leila didn’t have the guts to retort again.

As the result, in the next one hour, Arthur didn’t have any physical contact with Leila. After teaching the courtesy and etiquette, he taught the rules and regulations for practicing taekwondo. Then he asked her to stretch the ligaments for twenty minutes. She also hopped up and down for around a quarter. Finally, he checked the time on the watch. “Time’s up. Let’s dismiss.”

“Is that all?” Leila asked in shock, sweating all over her body.

“Let’s go on tomorrow.”

“That’s too simple!” Leila muttered, “Can you do it or not?”

“It’s a disdainful way if you ask a man can he do it. You need to try me so you’ll know if I can or not.”

“You--” Leila was speechless. Helplessly, she stood up to change her clothes. If she continued staying here, she would go nuts.

After changing her dress and arriving downstairs, Leila found that Arthur standing at the door. She planned to leave directly without talking to him. However, Arthur didn’t plan to let her go obviously. “Let’s go for a drink, shall we?”

“I can’t drink.”

“You can drink juice,” said Arthur.

“No, thanks. I still have classes tomorrow. See you, Mr. Lane.”

She didn’t know many men, and Theodore was one of them, who had become her thesis tutor. Arthur was another one, who had become her taekwondo teacher. What a fate!

Leila thought to herself with self-mockery.

“You still owe me a jacket. How could you be so arrogant to ignore me? Anyway, I helped you last time, didn’t I?”

Leila was helpless. She could only get in Arthur’s car because there were so many people gazing at them behind her back. She couldn’t continue staying there and becoming the target of other women. Arthur was absolutely the apple of the eye for so many women.

She turned to look at him up and down. Then she asked, “Are you truly the vice president of your company?”

Upon hearing that, Arthur immediately became unhappy. “Why? Don’t I look like such a person?”

“You look so childish!” Leila curled her lips. “I’ve told you I don’t want to go, but you make an excuse that I owe you the jacket. Didn’t you tell me that you don’t want it? Aren’t you too immature in this way?”

“You like mature men, do you?” Arthur raised his eyebrows.

“What does it have to do with the kind of men I like?” Leila was speechless. However, she couldn’t help wondering what kind of man Mr. White was -- was he a mature man?

“Why are you silent? What are you thinking?” Arthur asked curiously when seeing that Leila looked confused.

“Do all men like hunting for beauty, new love, and novelty?” Leila suddenly asked.

Arthur glared at her weirdly. He asked, “What’s wrong? Are you hurt by a man? You can’t misunderstand all men because of that. I have to admit that I like hunting for beauty, new love, and novelty, but it doesn’t mean other men like it too. There are a lot of loyal men in this world.”

“Oh! You are indeed honest!” Leila didn’t expect that he would admit it himself. It seemed that he knew himself quite well.

“Of course! One virtue of my life was honesty. But it depends. Now all women would make me have the desire for hunting.”

Upon hearing Arthur’s blunt words, Leila did a self-reflection suddenly. She wondered if she had been too serious. This world was supposed to be a virtue. Vincent and she got married not because of love. What could she expect from it then?

If Mr. White, Pippa, and Owen were a family since Pippa didn’t mind, why would she feel depressed? In that case, Pippa and Owen should be the ones who got hurt, shouldn’t they?

“Oh! Lexi, you are bothered by something!”

“No, I’m not!” NôvelDrama.Org (C) content.

“Liar!”

Leila fell into the silence.

Arthur took Leila to a high-end restaurant. It was eight o’clock already, so most of the diners had already finished dinner. They went there a bit late, but Arthur ordered a few light dishes.

Leila always felt that this kind of occasion didn’t fit her at all, so she looked quite restrictive. During the dinner, she didn’t make a big move at all. Actually, eating was supposed to be natural and casual, not like what she was doing now -- she was eating with tensed nerves, feeling quite uncomfortable.

They were chitchatting. Suddenly, Arthur asked, “Are you still studying or having a job?”

“Studying.”

“Where do you go to college?”

“P University!”

“Do you have a boyfriend?”

Leila’s heart skipped a beat. With a faint smile, she answered, “Yes.”

“What? You are just a little girl and you have a boyfriend! What are you doing? I guess you don’t have a good performance in college then, because you focus on puppy love too much. How could you be a good student? You should break up with him immediately. Falling in love too early isn’t good for you both mentally and physically. Are you physically mature yet?”

“Well! No, I’m not a student. I will graduate soon, so it shouldn’t be falling in love too early.” Leila smiled slightly. She didn’t know how to continue with the topic. Biting her lower lip, she said, “I’m full. I need to go home now.”

“I’ll give you a ride.” Arthur also put down the chopsticks, ready to stand up as well. “I’m serious. You are too young. How dare you date someone? Give me your home phone number. I’ll call your father and ask him to scold you.”

“My father supports me for that. All right. I’m leaving. I don’t need you to ride me home. Thanks, though.” Leila rejected him indifferently. She walked towards the restaurant door. She was not in a good mood originally.

After Arthur had paid the bill and chased after her, Leila had already hailed a cab and the car roared away. Arthur exhaled, walking to his sports car, feeling quite bored.

The study, NT Mountain villa.

Leila turned on the laptop. It was a white laptop given to her by Vincent. She browsed some news online first and then logged onto her blog account. She felt quite bored. Suddenly one of the family was missing, she didn’t adapt to it.

Her cell phone was placed on the desk. She took it over and looked at Vincent’s caller ID. After finding it, she didn’t have the guts to tab it to call him while looking at the caller ID “Mr. White”, because he told her not to call him.

Right then, the phone suddenly rang. Leila was startled. Grabbing the phone, she found the caller ID “Mr. White” was sparkling on the screen. She immediately swiped to answer and put the phone next to her ear. She answered in an almost trembling voice, “Hello?”

Her heart kept hammering, and she felt so nervous.

“Have you come back home?” After a moment of silence, she heard a deep voice from the other end of the line.

Leila nodded and suddenly realized that he couldn’t see her. She answered right away, “Yeah! You... How are you doing?”

In fact, she wanted to ask if he was on vacation with Pippa and Owen, but she didn’t dare to ask, because she was afraid that the peace would be broken if she asked. Besides, for a man like Vincent, if she asked, he might not be willing to answer. If she didn’t ask him, probably he would tell her.

“Ehn!” he just uttered a word. This kind of phone conversation sounded somewhat awkward, but Leila felt quite sweet.

“Speak!” he snapped, his tone overbearing as if he was giving an order.

“Oh! Well, how do you like Japan?” She found her tongue, wondering if he was calling her to chitchat with her on the phone. She couldn’t be used to it at all and didn’t know what to speak. Hence, she chose a question at random.

“Just so so!” He sounded a bit tired.

“The sakura in Japan is so beautiful.” Leila found another topic. “Have you seen the sakura blossom?”

“The reason is already past.” His deep and magnetic voice came over from the distant short, bumping her heart.

“Yeah, there’s no sakura in this season now. I heard that the landscape is quite beautiful in Hokkaido. Which place are you in Japan now?”

“Hokkaido.”

“For real? Is it so beautiful as it was on the TV?” Leila was a bit excited. Whenever she saw the landscape of Hokkaido on TV, she always felt it was an extremely beautiful place, especially the landscape in the winter.

“I didn’t pay attention,” Vincent said in a deep voice. After a pause, he added, “Do you like Hokkaido?”

“Ehn! Yes! I like Shizuoka, too. It’s quite beautiful there as well.” Leila was more excited. It was rare for him to call her and spoke so many words with her. It hardly happened. She wondered if it meant that he started to care about her. She suddenly forgot all her depression and became excited. In a delighted

tone, she raised her voice and asked, “Mr. White, did you go there for vacation or business?”