A Moment in Destiny novel Chapter 350

"Sorry, I get inflamed and my throat is not feeling well. I have to defend my thesis on Monday, so I don't feel like talking right now!" Leila's calm voice didn't have much of a rise and fall. She glanced at Pippa as she spoke. For Pippa, her gut feeling was that she didn't like her. Leila rarely had that gut feeling, but she really didn't like the woman.

"Leila said she had to defend her thesis. If you guys have something to say, talk to me. I'm Leila's speaking agent now. Leila, can I speak for you?" Arthur asked Leila with a smile curling at the corners of his mouth.

Leila smiled and nodded. "Well, whatever!"

Seeing her smile at Arthur and treat him and Pippa with such indifference, Vincent's face turned cold. His icy aura sent chills down people's backs like they had seen a ghost.

A cold look crossed the corner of Leila's eyes and she ignored any expression he gave her. She didn't want to talk or pay any attention to him or Pippa.

The lamb was soon served up in large, well-cut chunks.

"Leila, eat quickly. When you're done eating, go back to rest early. Don't you have to defend your thesis? You rest early, conserve your strength and try to hit the ground running and graduate with distinction!"

"Yes!" Leila nodded and started eating.

It was really delicious. Maybe it was because she was so hungry, Leila actually felt that it tasted good. She wasn't in the best of moods, but with food on the table, she didn't want to maltreat her heart and then her stomach! Just eating the large piece of roasted lamb, she couldn't help but think of the lamb she had eaten at Reggie's estate in R City a few days ago, roasted by Vincent himself. Why were there memories everywhere? Why did she feel so heartbroken?

"Vincent, Pippa, why aren't you guys eating?"

Looking at Vincent's cold face, Arthur shrugged and started to eat first himself.

At that moment, Pippa's phone rang. She was shocked and stunned. Holding the phone, her whole body shuddered again when she saw the number on the screen.

Vincent's eyes tightened as he gazed at Pippa. "He's here?"

Pippa nodded. "I think so!"

"Give me the phone!" Vincent reached straight for Pippa's phone.

Leila bit her lip and ate. She ate quickly. She was really a little hungry and wanted to eat and leave immediately.

Vincent picked up the phone and took the answer button. "Miyamoto, it's me! Vincent!"

Pippa had been pale while he was on the phone. It seemed she was extraordinarily scared of the person on the other end of the phone.

"Yes! We're at the South Asia Scenic Garden! Come on. I'm waiting for you!" Vincent's voice was cold as he spoke curtly to the person on the other end of the phone.

Arthur raised an eyebrow and rolled his eyes again to look at Leila who was eating with her head down. she was eating very quietly, not saying a word, not making a sound, just eating quite fast.

After a few minutes, Leila looked up, wiped the corner of her lips with a tissue, and said to Arthur, "I've finished. Do you still want to eat?"

"I've already eaten. It's after nine o'clock. Can I skip dinner? Do you think everyone is like you, living so irregularly and abusing your body?" Arthur was smiling when he answered Leila, making Vincent feel extra harsh.

"I'd like to go back. Do you want to stay?" Leila asked.

"I'll see you off!" Arthur said.

Leila stood up. She didn't even look at Vincent, just gave Pippa a nod. She was just turning to leave when Vincent pulled her arm. "Wait for me to drive you!"

"No need!" Leila replied firmly.

"We'll go home together after I'm done with this!" Vincent's cold voice that sounded like it was coming from hell echoed in the air. Everyone could feel his anger at the moment. He had held back to a certain extent. From his heaving chest and clenched fists, it was clear that he had held back to the extreme, but he was not angry, he was just holding back.

He was quite intimidating with this kind of aura. Arthur watched as Vincent gripped Leila's wrist. Probably because it hurt, Leila frowned. Arthur immediately said, "Vincent, you're hurting Leila!"

"It's none of your business!" The anger in Vincent's chest was instantly aroused. He roared.

Leila was startled to see Vincent's angry, grim face. But she simply said indifferently, "Let go of me!"

"You're going with him?" Vincent asked coldly. His anger instantly flared.

Leila's eyes were cold even as she shook Vincent's hand away. She just stared straight at Vincent like that, and then, striding away, resisted him with her actions.

She was gone after all!

"Vincent! I'm taking Leila, aren't you taking Pippa?" Arthur looked at Pippa, then at Vincent, and said softly, "The real harm is not in hating each other when you are together, but in insisting on meaningless warmth and devotion, knowing that everything is not yours. We all understand what the result of that is. So since you didn't choose her in the first place, don't hold on to her midway. There is also a limit for flirting. Vincent, if you can't give Leila happiness, then let go of her!"

He said this to Pippa as well as to Vincent.

Vincent blinked and his eyes went deep. And Pippa's face paled.

With that, a powerful and dangerous aura came over him. Vincent looked like Satan from hell! In his rage, his eyes alone were sharp enough to kill people. He just looked at Arthur. "What do you mean?"

"You understand very well what I mean. Pippa, although I don't know what's going on with you and Miyamoto, I think that matters between couples, oh no, matters between ex-couples, should be handled by themselves. Involving someone else would be too tiring! To be less tired, I'll go first!"

Before he could finish his sentence, Vincent was already on his feet, striding hurriedly after Leila. He caught up with her and grabbed Leila by the arm.

Leila was startled and turned her head to look at Vincent, who looked brutal. Luckily, it was after 9 pm and the hall was empty, "Let me go!"

"I said when I'm done with Pippa, we'll go home together!" He spoke patiently once more.

"You have disqualified yourself from holding my hand. Since you promised me today and then broke your word, you are no longer qualified to command me! Because I can allow any man in the world to do this but not you!" Leila fought back the pain in her wrists. Her cold words pierced Vincent's heart like a sharp point of ice.

A flash of heartache crossed his cold face. She was so determined! She could allow any man in the world to do that, but not him.

"I warned you, you must think about the consequences of angering me!"

Being angry, Vincent didn't want to explain anything to Leila. All he wanted to do now was to teach this ungrateful woman a lesson.

After yelling, Vincent yanked Leila back to the table. With a murderous look on his face, he said to Arthur, "You'd better stay out of our business. You're the only one who's being flirting, aren't you?"

"Are you angry?" Arthur raised an eyebrow. "Oh, Vincent, you've gotten grumpy, haven't you?"

Vincent's handsome features hid a fit of powerful anger. His expression suddenly turned cold, "You shut up."

"Vincent, you're hurting Leila. Get off her!" Pippa warned immediately when she saw that Leila's lips were bitten by herself.

As soon as Pippa spoke, Vincent immediately looked down at her. When he saw that the corner of her lip was bleeding from her bite and that her wrist was white from his grip, he immediately let go of her. A red and purple mark immediately appeared on her wrist.

"I'll say it again. When I'm done with Pippa, we'll go home together!" His voice was hollow and distant and reached her ears.

He let go of her hand, but Leila thought he had listened too much to Pippa. So she smiled to herself, and her heart actually ached a little. The numbing pain revived. Tormented and on the verge of collapse, Leila suddenly shouted at Vincent, "Why should I wait for you? Have you forgotten what I said this afternoon? I'm sorry, I don't have time to serve you!"

"Vincent! Let's go. Miyamoto is already here!" Arthur glanced in the direction of the door. Sure enough, a slender figure appeared. His features were deep, his dark, falcon-like eyes held wisdom and shrewdness, and he invisibly exuded a majestic, kingly aura, while the grace with which he moved his hands made people submit to him.

And behind him followed four bodyguards. The man walked into the restaurant and with a wave of his hand, two of the bodyguards immediately stayed by his side, and then the other two looked warily around the restaurant.

Leila also saw the man who came in. He had such a powerful aura. She thought that only Vincent had such an aura, but she didn't expect this man to have it too. But she didn't have time to think anything about it, just stood up and left!

She wasn't curious, and she didn't want to know. About Vincent and Pippa, she didn't want to know anything.

Vincent wasn't stopping Leila from leaving. It was only as Leila passed by Miyamoto that she was slightly startled to see him looking at her with playful eyes. His seductive eyes shone with a brilliant light. But he just looked at Leila and did nothing but nod slightly with a smile in his eyes. But that smile didn't reach his eyes and it looked like Vincent when he was evil.

It seemed that with one look he had the wisdom and calmness to turn things around. Leila bowed her head and walked out with Arthur, then heard Miyamoto's low and cold voice behind her, "Mr. White, aren't you afraid your wife will be angry if you leave her to meddle in another woman's affairs?"

Leila's heart inexplicably trembled. Who was this man? It was as if he knew that she was Vincent's wife.

Arthur seemed to see her confusion. The moment they walked out into the hall, he whispered in Leila's ear, "This is Pippa's ex-husband!"

"Ah-" Leila was startled and a little surprised.

Ex-husband? This seemingly brilliant man was just her ex-husband? Ex-husband meant no relationship! Leila smiled faintly and fell into silence, but there was some doubt in her mind. What the hell was Vincent up to?

When they got into the car, Arthur didn't rush to drive but looked sideways at Leila.

Meeting his eyes, Leila raised an eyebrow, "What's wrong?"

"Leila, Pippa is Vincent's stepfather's daughter, his nominal sister. I don't think he probably ever told you about it?"

"Nominal sister?" Leila staggered in disbelief.

"I shouldn't say these things, but I see you're really too torn up about it. Pippa was Nora's favorite daughter-in-law. At one point after Vincent's stepfather died, Nora wanted Vincent to marry Pippa, but Pippa had Owen with Miyamoto. It was said that Pippa was raped by Miyamoto. Pippa didn't want to marry Miyamoto at first, and it was only when she later became pregnant with Owen that the two got married. But before Owen was born, they divorced! We don't know the reasons for this. All I know is that Pippa refused to stay with Miyamoto for good. But all these years, Miyamoto refused to give up on her and just kept pestering her."