chapter 160

Eric's mind stopped functioning. He came here to find out why Lucy lied to him again? What was her reason? When he saw Charles grabbing her wrist, all those questions disappeared into thin air and he stormed inside to help her.But he didn't realize that his actions made her scared of him instead of feeling relieved.And the fact that someone else, more precisely, Mark had to point it out to him, crushed his heart as if a huge boulder dropped on it.Eric thought he was beginning to understand Lucy little by little. But now some other man understood her plight more than him. Some other man was realizing her distress when he was supposed to be doing that as her man.For the first time, he couldn't retort Mark. He couldn't say anything back to him. He wanted to become the man who understood Luct the most.Suddenly, he felt that the earrings he gifted to Lucy were meaningless now. It amounted to nothing.He bought the earrings just because he happened to hear her talking about her favorite color. What was so difficult about that?But Mark understood her fear even without Lucy saying a word to him.That comparison left him shattered. It evoked such feelings in his heart that made him feel, for the first time, that he was incompetent. He lacked somewhere compared to another man.He didn't know anything about Lihua. If he couldn't even understand her distress, if someone else had to spell it out for him anything concerning Lucy, then what right did he have to call himself as her man?Lucy blinked her eyes as she distinctly felt a change in his demeanor.Why is the Boss looking so…Without saying anything else, Eric slowly turned as if in a trance and silently walked out of the bar.The heavy atmosphere and tension in the bar instantly diffused as Eric left. Charles breathed in relief. He had almost pissed his pants off.Lucy couldn't take her mind off of his expression with which he left. There was a ring of sadness and pain in it that clenched her heart.I think Boss is misunderstanding something here. Ever since Mark talked to him, he looked so different.Mark said, "You okay?"She nodded in a daze. "I...I need to leave."Lucy dashed out of the bar, her heart thudding in uneasiness. Mark didn't stop her. As he watched her run away, once again, he felt a strange inkling in his mind.He had seen Eric coming to help Lucy outside college that day. Then Lucy said that he also came to save her from those kidnappers the day before. And now, he arrived yet again to help Lucy.Why would a CEO go to such lengths to save an average intern like her? Why is he doing so much for her?---