Can't Let Go novel Chapter 197

Days later.

Dennis Huo got his hands really full that he stayed for only couple of days and left in haste, leaving only one word, “see you in Japan，little sister－in－law.”

And Debra Huo kept herself extremely busy too in the meanwhile.

Uncle Pan minded her about the stock listings of the new company and he would be much more occupied than usual.

And she did her daily routine － go to school, leave school, and return home.

Only, she hadn’t seen him for three whole days.

She stayed until after 11 every night waiting for him and he didn’t appear.

In the morning, the man was still in bed when she woke and Uncle Pan would not let her to disturb.

And she had lost track of when she had started caring about him so much.

Which troubled her extremely and made her awkward and uncomfortable.

To such an extent that she lost in a trance at Nancy Xi’s birthday party.

“Laura(Candy)!” Nancy Xi approached in a splendid dress, “what’s wrong? How come you sit in the corner alone?”

Laura Su gave a slight smile, and turned to her, “you look so beautiful today!”

Nancy Xi smiled back, took her hand and introduced her to her own families and friends, “everybody, this is my best friend Laura Su!”

Laura Su was no village girl; her father would throw grand parties for her birthdays every year.

Therefore, she did not have the stage fright on this kind of occasion.

It was just, it killed her seeing Nancy Xi’s families, friends and relatives offer their birthday wishes and give their concerns about her health one after another.

Because she enjoy the same privilege on her last birthday.

However, this year...

“Nancy Xi!” a call of a deep voice caught her.

And it startled Sun Laura so she turned.

The man was about 25, in a military uniform.

He was quite handsome, six feet tall, with resolute and steadfast qualities or so.

“Lichen is back,” the surrounding relatives greeted him.

“Lichen loves her little sister so much, with so much going on in the military, he still made it to her birthday anyway!”

Laughter and admiration from their relatives and friends floated in the cheerful air.

The handsome and stately man just walked towards them step by step.

Nancy Xi was obviously caught unexpectedly, her lips twisted and gave an embarrassed smile, “ brother, you are back?!”

Laura Su looked at the man, then at Nancy Xi , BROTHER?

She said her mother had only her.

Where did this brother come from?

“I should come back no matter how, it’s your birthday. Why? I’m not welcome?” he stared at Nancy Xi , pretending to be mad.

“Yes, you are. I’m happy, I’ m very happy!” she took Laura Su’s hand, “Laura, this is my brother, Walter Nan.”

“Um, nice to meet you!” She mumbled.

“The pleasure is mine!” he nodded in return.

“Gosh, Lichen is back!” girls gathered around and whispered.

These girls were mostly daughters of friends of father Xi’s, they all fancied him.

This is for you!”Walter Nan handed her a box, “open it!”

Nancy Xi took it, frowned, and didn’t open.

Laura Su stood aside, confused, WHAT?

What was happening?

Why was Nancy Xi all upset?

“Um, I’ll open it later, I should put it in my room!” she turned to Laura Su, “Laura, I’ll be back in a second, you just stay!”

She hurried upstairs.

Just when Laura Su was in a loss and wondered why , what was happening with Nancy Xi ?

Someone whispered nearby, “I envy her, though her own father died early, her step－father is so rich, and a brother so perfect! I wish I were her!”

“True. And her brother loves her so much! If it were someone else, he would hate her in the guts for her mom marrying his dad!”

Laura Su was not stupid, and surely she understood the whole story.

This brother, seemed to be the step father’s kid.

No wonder they looked not close.

Nancy Xi ran to her room without a break, and closed the door at once.

The next second she was opening the box at the beside.

Her face became pale the moment she opened it.

She threw the box of stuff on the ground.

When the door was opened.

Nancy Xi raised her head and saw the man.

He locked the door from inside.

“What?You don’t like my gift?”

“Are you sick, Walter Nan? Giving me this?”

The floor was scattered with condoms, in all colors.”

Walter Nan smiled scornfully, walked over step by step and the next second he pushed her against the wall, in an evil voice, “you really don’t like my gift ? we would use that a lot!”

Nancy Xi scowled at him, “you sick pervert. It’s my birthday, are you insane?”

“Insane?” he smiled, “I came all the way back from the army for your birthday, and you are calling me insane?”

“Nobody wanted you for my birthday!” she glared, “Go the hell back to your army!”

Walter Nan became most displeased, he held her chin and kissed on her lips directly.

This kiss, was bossy and urgent.

Nancy Xi almost lost her breath.

He would not have let her lips go if he had been afraid of suffocating her.

“Someone has become naughtier since the last time l fixed her, hasn’t she?” he ran her fingers over her lips, and his words were full of warning.

Nancy Xi gasped and glared, “I’m telling you off, you pervert!”

“Telling me off, what have I done to you to make you tell me off?”

The man leaned over and bit her ear as an punishment.

That pain made her whole body tremble.

“Don’t touch me!”

Walter Nan held up her chin, and his slender fingers unbuttoned her collar, “Jing, you are eighteen today, and I’ve been waiting for it long enough!”

Nancy Xi looked at him with astonished eyes.

“What, what are you doing? There are families and friends downstairs!” she said as she backed down in horror.

“Doing what I wanted three years ago!”, the man smile evilly, unbuttoned his shirt in a lazy way.

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Laura Su waited downstairs for quite a while and still did not see Nancy Xi show up.

She got little worried and was ready to go up when she saw Nancy Xi down.

Her brother was with her.

The two was surrounded as soon as they came down.

Walter Nan smiled and announced, “ladies and gentlemen, I’m going back to the army in a sec, please make yourself at home and enjoy your evening. Jing, happy birthday!”

Nancy Xi twisted her lips and said, “OK!”

The he made a high－profile departure surrounded by the gatherings.

“Laura!” Nancy Xi limpid before her, took her hand and walked aside.

Laura Su noticed her weird walking and frowned, “Jing, are you all right? It seems, your steps are very unstable.”

“No! Nothing!!” Nancy Xi gave an awkward smile, her legs shaking under her dress, “ it’s fine, I hit my thigh on a table corner upstairs.”

That man was a pervert.

Three years ago when she first came here, he didn’t like her particularly.

He only changed his attitude after her father talked with him several times.

However, he started to like her in a perverted way.

Kissing her, and hitting on her, was often the case.

Moreover, he destroyed all her relationships of romance in the name of a brother.

But she did not dare to tell.

A well－dressed beast!

A brute under human mask was that man.

And he just, upstairs, in such an unbridled and shameless way...

Her legs were still shaking, as was her heart.

“Jing, Jing...”

“Yeah?”Nancy Xi came to herself suddenly.

“Are you ok? You are quite not yourself!”

Nancy Xi smiled and led her to the food section.

“Laura, you should try these, these are delicious!” she picked up a plate for Laura and one for herself.

Laura Su’s eyes lit up when she saw the food and deserts, which were definitely made for young girls like her.

At uncle Huo’s, they got everything, but deserts were healthier and never allowed to look too fancy.

So she did not care much.

Things in Xi family were much better, food were much prettier for girls.

And her favorite milk tea!

So they piled up their plates and found themselves in a quiet place.

No soon had they sat than Nancy Xi Started to complain, “I don’t like birthday party actually.”

Laura Su sipped on her tea and wondered, “why?”

“These relatives and friends are mostly from father’s side and I don’t even know some of them, the greetings and congratulations are because of father...I don’t like it, I don’t even like parties and stuff,” she lowered her eyes and reminisced, “I miss these parties when there were only mom, dad, and me.”

What she said surprised Laura Su and made her lost in thinking.

“Of course, our own families are the best!”

Nancy Xi turned to her, for seconds she didn’t realize what she’d said.

So she hurried to grab her hands, “Laura, I didn’t mean that way, you lost your father but you still got your uncle Huo, who, from where I stand, loves you very much!”

Laura Su didn’t say anything, neither admitted it nor denied it.

“Laura, let me ask you a question, did, he touch you?”

“What?”

“I mean, did you do it with him?”

Laura Su withdrew her hands quickly and got all blushing, “Jing, what are you talking about? I’m only 17...”

Then Nancy Xi understood that they hadn’t done anything yet.

“Laura,” she looked at her, sat down beside her, saying, “Listen to me, guys like him don’t come around often, because there are too many temptations outside the world, so when you meet him, you gotta seize him and never let him go! NEVER!”

“Never...”

Once again she heard this word.

“Right, never, you told me that he’s your fiance, and he’s going to marry you when you turn 18, You are going to be 18 very soon and I suppose there isn’t much difference between 17 and 18, and don’t you forget, time is the difference, when you are waiting for your 18, you have no ideas about the temptations outside!”

And she continued with such solemnity, “anyway, you don’t have to worry too much, because as far as I see, he loves you very much and he was all along protecting you and looked at you with all tenderness last time at the concert and at the dinner table, I mean it!”

Laura Su fell into silence because she did not even know what to answer.

Nancy Xi noticed her knitted brows and added, “so you gotta hurry when he’s still in love with you, you guys are going to be married couple anyway, of course you could do something in advance!”

Laura Su flushed, it was very weird to hear that...

“Ah, don’t you blush!” Nancy Xi pulled at Laura Su’s hands which were covering her face, and advised in a most earnest way, “ I’m telling you, do you remember that girl who fell in love and got herself pregnant when we were at our military training?”

Laura Su nodded.

“Do you know who stole her boyfriend? It was her closest friend, her bestie!”

“What?”

“Don’t you look at me that way, I’m not interested in your uncle,” Walter Nan would eat her if she dared to.

Laura Su was nervous, clutching the milk tea cup with her two hands.

“Laura, I was just warning you, even a bestie couldn’t resist that man’s charm, not to mention the women outside, isn’t it? Once they see your uncle is handsome and excellent, I bet they can’t wait to get naked and sacrifice themselves on his bed!”

“Naked?” Laura Su paused and saw the picture in her mind, and became furious. She mumbled, “they can do whatever they want, it won’t be stolen when it’s mine, and it won’t work when it’s not.”

“That’s not necessarily true, if you uncle marries another woman for real, what’s your place in that family. She will definitely kill you!”

“Never! uncle Huo won’t do that to me!” she refuted at once.

Nancy Xi wouldn’t just stop here though she saw her getting angry, “ OK, let’s say your uncle won’t let that happen, but what would you feel when you see him with another woman hugging and kissing and even making out in front of you?”

Laura Su didn’t speak this time and knitted her brows.

Uncle Huo...

Hugging and kissing another woman? Making out?

Nancy Xi knew the girl must have fallen deeply into it when she saw her getting more and more angry.

So she approached and whispered to her ear, “So watch out for your uncle, your future husband!”