A Moment in Destiny novel Chapter 340

Her figure looked extraordinarily lonely. Under the shroud of night, she was wearing a sweatshirt and walking slowly with her hands around her shoulders, like a homeless child, looking so pitiful.

Arthur thought he had seen the wrong person! He didn't expect it to really be Leila.

He stopped the car, slid down the window, and shouted in a deep voice, "Leila?"

Leila paused for a moment when she heard someone seemingly calling her. Turning her head, she saw a Ferrari parked beside her. In the dim light of the street lamp, Arthur's face was blurred, but she could be sure that the person was Arthur.

"Leila, it's really you!" Arthur opened the car door, got out of the car, walked up to Leila, and was stunned to see her panicked and evasive face. "You're crying?"

Leila lowered her head and shook it, but her voice was choked with sobs. "Arthur, what a coincidence. What are you doing wandering the streets in the middle of the night without sleeping?"

She pretended to joke in a light-hearted manner, deliberately making her tone brisker, but her voice still choked.

Arthur frowned, grabbed her hand, and dragged her into the car. "Let's go, nobody's taking you in again, right? If you don't have anywhere to go, you can go to my place, why treat me like an outsider! Why didn't you call me?"

Tears, instantly, rolled down her face.

Leila bit her lips, not wanting to shed tears because of such warm words, but she still felt moved!

She let Arthur drag her into his car and he took out a tissue to her. "The wind is quite strong and its blowing makes one prone to tears. It's okay, and it happens to me as well! Next time let's wear a pair of glasses out to block the wind and we won't be in such a mess!"

He was giving her an out, Leila was grateful in her heart and wiped away her tears. "Thank you, can you drive me to the Pearl Community? By the way, help me smash the door, I forgot the key!"

"Uh!" Arthur raised an eyebrow. "If I break down the door in the middle of the night, you won't be able to sleep. Besides, there's no locksmith at this hour, so you'd better come with me to my house. But don't worry, I'll take you somewhere else this time, not the sea view suite again, and I won't let anyone take pictures and misunderstand that I'm having an affair with you."

Leila giggled as she listened to his words. "I'm sorry for causing you trouble!"

Arthur knew she was talking about their last scandal and laughed lightly, "That was no trouble at all, and it was just the heroine changing her name. Don't worry. I often appear in scandals. It's strange if I don't have scandals! Let's go!"

Arthur's handsome face reflected a warm glow, and Leila nodded gently, sighed with feeling. "You are a good man, and your good intentions will be rewarded!"

"Haha...I'm a good man?" Arthur laughed, as if he had heard a big joke.

Leila didn't know what he was laughing at, but seeing that he seemed extremely happy, she smiled back. She sniffled and felt much better. It was good to have friends.

Arthur took Leila to an equally high-end apartment not far from Diorama, which was also close to the White Group.

However, there was only one bedroom. Arthur took the quilt out and said to Leila, "Tonight you'll sleep in my bedroom and I'll sleep on the couch. If you don't mind, I have some brand new pajamas in the third drawer of the closet, and you can change into them!"

"No! I'll sit on the couch all night, and tomorrow when the locksmith is at work, I'll go back and unlock the door!"

"I don't object, it's fine if you just stay awake for one night, but I have a habit when I sleep at night. I might sleepwalk, and in case I sleepwalk out naked, you'd be embarrassed, right?" Arthur said, holding back a laugh.

"What..."

"So, in order for you and me not to be embarrassed, you'd better go into the bedroom and lock the door, so you'll be safe even if I sleepwalk around naked, right?"

"Okay then, sorry about that! I'll go in first, good night!" Leila immediately ran into the room.

Arthur couldn't help but burst into laughter; she was such a gullible girl. But, didn't she say she was going on vacation? How did she show up here again? Where was Vincent?

Arthur picked up his phone and called Vincent, while it took a while for the other end of the line to pick up. Vincent's voice seemed a little tired, "Hello! What makes you call me in the middle of the night? Just spit it out!"

"Didn't you go on vacation? How was the fun?" Arthur listened to Vincent's impatient voice, intuiting that he and Leila seemed to have quarreled, and he sounded very tired. "Why do you sound like that? Did you and Leila have a falling out?"

"Leila? Ugh! No more bullshit with you! I have an emergency!" Vincent immediately hung up the phone.

Arthur didn't know what was happening and was stunned and slumped into the couch.

Leila went to the bedroom, but she didn't sleep. Instead, she just sat on the floor with her head on the bed, intending to lie down like that all night. But at that moment, the phone rang, which was from Vincent.

Her heart did a flip. Did he finally remember her?

Holding the phone, she twitched the corners of her lips and said, "Vincent!"

"Where are you?"

"I'm fine. Is Pippa alright?"

"Where are you?" He repeated the same words.

Leila asked softly in response, "Does it matter where I am? Vincent, do you only remember me now? You don't need to know where I am, I'm fine, and that's all! By the way, I'm going to defend my thesis soon, so please don't disturb me. I want to do my best for graduation!"

With that, she hung up the phone and turned it off!

At 6 a.m., Leila quietly opened the door and found Arthur lying on the couch with a silk quilt on his waist, wearing last night's clothes, which had not been changed at all.

He was so tall that when he laid on the narrow couch, the couch actually appeared very small. He must have been very uncomfortable, and she was unusually grateful to Arthur for taking her in. She tucked him in and prepared to leave quietly.

Unexpectedly, as soon as her hand touched the doorknob, a voice came from behind, "Want to leave without a word? Little girl, you've still been found out."

Leila froze and looked back. "You're awake?"

"Yes!" Arthur stretched himself. "I'll drive you!"

"Don't bother!"

"You're going to walk back?" He raised his eyebrow.

"No, I'll take a cab!"

"How can you take a cab without money?"

"You?" Leila was startled. How did he know she didn't have money?

"You don't have your bag, so I don't suppose you have any money?" He added.

Leila was really dumbfounded. "How do you know?"

"If you had money on you, would you have walked alone on the street in the middle of the night last night? Well, I'll drive you back after I take a shower and change my clothes. If you go back now, the locksmiths aren't at work yet, and they don't start working until after 8:00 am, so be good! Don't make me anxious, just think of it as doing a good deed, okay?"

"But it's too much trouble for you!" Leila felt apologetic for him.

"Don't be polite to me, I'm sick of false politeness, just be good and wait!" Arthur got up and went into the bedroom to get his clothes, and it was only then that he realized that the bed hadn't been moved at all. It wasn't the kind that you get up in the morning and fold the quilt, instead, it hadn't been moved at all. She probably didn't want to cause him any trouble. This silly girl!

Without saying a word, he went to take a shower and change his clothes. On the way he drove Leila back to the Pearl Community, he took her to breakfast, and then when they arrived at the downstairs of the Pearl Community, he called the Locksmith Company, "Send a locksmith, yes, I want to open now, Pearl Community..."

"I can handle it myself!" Leila whispered.

"It looks like you have to open it yourself! I have to go to work, so you wait here for the locksmith!" Arthur pulled a few banknotes out of his wallet and shoved them into her hand, "You take this first!"

"I don't want it!" Leila shook her head.

"You can pay me back later, take it first!" With that, Arthur shoved the money to her. "Go ahead, the locksmith will be here in ten minutes!"

"Thank you!" Leila was so grateful in my heart that she almost choked up.

"Silly girl, I'm leaving!" Arthur smiled and waved his hand as he said seriously, "Leila, if Vincent bullies you, call me and tell me. I'll help you punish him!"

After saying that, he smiled and drove away!

Leila stood still, holding a few red banknotes in her hand, her eyes instantly turning red.

After a while, Leila turned around, and at the moment she was about to go upstairs, a Bugatti drove over from the other side. Vincent didn't see the Ferrari that just drove away, and when the car stopped, he saw Leila at the stairway.

He slammed the car door shut and he came after Leila in stride. "Leila ––"

When Leila seemed to hear Vincent's voice, Leila turned around and sure enough, she saw the tall figure. She was a bit stunned, but thinking of the scene last night when he had shut her out of the door, as if he had simply forgotten her existence, Leila was down in the dumps and said unhappily, "What are you doing here?"

Vincent frowned and said with dissatisfaction, "Where did you go last night? Where did you go to hang out in the middle of the night?"

Suddenly, Leila felt a little baffled. She really didn't understand, Was he questioning her? He was the one who had shut her out because he was in a hurry to comfort another woman, but today, he came to ask her where she had been last night? She scoffed, only to find it amusing.

"What are you laughing at?" Vincent frowned.

Without answering, Leila turned around and went upstairs.

Vincent followed behind her. Seeing that she didn't open the door even when she reached the doorway, he grabbed her arm unhappily, took out his own key to open the door, and closed it with a bang.

"You're hurting me!" Leila was annoyed and rubbed her aching arm. He was so rude!

"What happened to you last night?" Vincent didn't apologize, instead he said unpleasantly, "Say it! Why did you turn your phone off?"

"Vincent, you still have the nerve to ask me why I turned off my phone?" Leila was furious. Couldn't he do some self-reflection? Why did she turn off her phone? What a joke, why didn't he ask himself why?

"What do you mean?" Vincent was confused. "Who gave you permission to leave?"

Last night she actually left quietly, and he was really pissed off by her. Although he didn't know when she left, he couldn't leave Pippa alone when she was crying so heartily last night!

"What do I mean?" Leila's tone paused, then she sneered, "Isn't it me who should be asking you? Yesterday, you were the one who shut me out of the door, you were the one who rushed to comfort another woman, and you've long forgotten that there is someone like me outside the door, right? If I don't leave, should I continue to be stupid? Should I continue to wait? Wait for you to notice me?"

Her successive questioning made Vincent staggered.

"You said I shut you out?" He seemed to be surprised, trying hard to recall the events of last night. It seemed that as soon as he entered the door, he had comforted Pippa. How had he noticed Leila? Was it true that he had shut her out?

Seeing his silence, Leila said again, "I'm about to defend my thesis, and I don't want anyone to spoil my mood and affect my thesis defense. That's why I don't want to see you for the next few days. Vincent, please leave now!

Her tone was indifferent, not wanting to argue.

Vincent pursed his lips, and after a long silence, he said, "Is it true that I shut you out?"

"Whatever you think! Or you can also assume that I'm lying, please get out!" Leila's tone was neither high nor low, but it was extremely cold.