Serena was stunned.
She looked at her sister, but she saw that Liberty’s face was stoic.
Since it was still early, there were no other customers in the diner except Serena. The two shop assistants were sitting beside them eating their breakfast.
Seeing that there was a customer, the two of them wanted to get up and tend to the customer, but when they saw that it was Duncan, the two of them sat down again and continued to eat their breakfast.
Duncan’s pursuit of Liberty was so obvious that they could not even pretend not to know.
“Liberty.”
Duncan came over holding the bouquet.
“Serena, you’re early.”
He greeted Serena.
Serena said, “I haven’t eaten the signature breakfast in my sister’s diner in a while, and I was craving it, so I came here early. Mr. Lewis, you’re also very early.”
It was only seven o’clock in the morning.
Serena’s husband was still asleep when she left the house.
Before she left, she deliberately left a note on the bedside table for Zack so that he would not wake up and lose his temper when he did not see her. He liked to blame her for not waiting for him and for ignoring him.
In the future, Serena would have to spend more time caring about him. Otherwise, her back would break
“I usually come at this time.”
Duncan replied before he asked, “Where’s Sonny?”
“Sonny is at my house. Jim will send him to his lessons later.”
Liberty was busy with her diner and had to get up early every day. It was not convenient for her to take Sonny with her, so the little guy stayed with Serena at night.
In the morning, Jim would send Sonny to class.
Duncan hummed, then handed the bouquet to Liberty. His black eyes were fixated on Liberty as he said, ” Liberty, this is for you.”
Liberty stood up.
She faced Duncan’s intense gaze frankly and declined his bouquet. “Thank you, Mr. Lewis, but I don’t like flowers. I’ll cook you breakfast.”
Duncan was mentally prepared for Liberty to refuse his bouquet.
When he confessed his love to Liberty, Liberty also made it clear to him that she had no feelings for him.
Thus, he was mentally prepared to be rejected by Liberty all the time.
“I’ll have the same thing,” Duncan said.
Liberty walked away.
Duncan did not follow her around but sat opposite Serena and put the bouquet on the table.
Serena kept looking at the two of them.
After Duncan sat down, Serena lowered her head to eat her breakfast.
“Zack didn’t come with you?”
Duncan looked for a topic to chat with Serena about, so as not to make it so awkward.
“He’s still asleep. I have to go to the bookstore, so I left the house early.”
Duncan smiled and said, “Oh.”
Serena looked at her sister’s back, lowered her voice, and asked Duncan, “The florists aren’t even open at this hour. Did you bring this bouquet from home?”
Duncan replied, “Yeah, I cut all the flowers that I could in the yard and made them into a bouquet myself.” “No wonder,”
Serena glanced at the bouquet of flowers.
There were all kinds of flowers in the bouquet, not just roses.
Duncan was a rough man. Although there were flowers and trees in his villa, he never once admired them. The butler had arranged for someone to buy them so as to add a bit of color to the landscape.
Thus, not all of them were roses.
Duncan cut all the flowers that bloomed in the villa to make this bouquet.
The butler felt distressed when he found out that Duncan had cut off all the blooming flowers in the villa However, he supported Duncan in pursuing his crush. Thus, the butler decided to go to the flower field at Wildridge Manor to buy a full load of roses to put in the open space of the villa. This would make it more convenient for Duncan to cut flowers and give them to his crush.
Duncan kept silent for a while before he asked Serena in a low voice, “Is it because my bouquet is too complicated? Is that why your sister hates it?”
“No. My sister just doesn’t like receiving flowers from you, Mr. Lewis.”
Duncan asked, “When she was with Hank, did Hank give her flowers?”
“Yes. When Hank was chasing after my sister, he gave her a lot of gifts, mostly handwritten love letters. After all, they were still in school at that time.
“Then he invited my sister to watch a movie and eat snacks.”
The two sisters depended on each other since childhood. Thus, Serena had witnessed Hank’s pursuit of Liberty.
Serena witnessed as Hank and Liberty went from being friends to lovers. They got married and divorced, and they were now back to being strangers.
Duncan suddenly felt that he had done too little.
He was not as good as that sc*mbag Hank.
“Serena, thanks for giving me your suggestions.”
Serena said, “I didn’t give you any suggestions.
“I’m on my sister’s side. No matter what she decides, I will support her. Mr. Lewis, don’t try to use me.
Duncan smiled. “You’re Liberty’s younger sister and the most important person to her, so I won’t use you. I will only dote on you as my younger sister. If Zack bullies you in the future, you can tell me, and I’ll stand up for you.”
Serena wanted to say that Duncan was really not Zack’s opponent, but she swallowed those words.
Liberty quickly cooked Duncan’s breakfast and brought it over.
The conversation between Duncan and Serena stopped.
Serena soon had her fill.
She got up and said to her sister, “I’ll head to the store first.”
Liberty said, “Alright, drive slowly.”
“Okay.”
Serena said to Duncan, “I’ll get going. You can take your time.”
After she finished speaking, she took her bag and walked out of the breakfast diner.
At this time, there were more customers having breakfast.
Liberty went to greet the customers, and Duncan did not want to disturb her, so he ate his breakfast in silence.
Occasionally, when no one was paying attention, Duncan would secretly take pictures of the busy Liberty with his phone.
In his free time, he admired the photos he secretly took and fantasized about the day that Liberty would cook for him. 1
If Liberty married him, he would never let Liberty be so busy.
Duncan wanted to cook for Liberty, but his cooking skills were not great and could not be compared with Zack’s.
After all, the sons of the York family were all trained by Grandma May to be competent chefs.
Liberty did not even know when Duncan left the diner.
He left the money for his breakfast on the table and put the bouquet of flowers at the cash register.
Liberty did not notice that he was leaving, so she did not know that he had already placed the bouquet on the counter.
After leaving the diner, Duncan turned his head to look at the busy Liberty for a moment before he reluctantly got into the car and went back to his office.
Liberty was busy until after nine o’clock in the morning. As the number of people eating breakfast reduced, she was able to relax.
Lily chose to enter the diner when Liberty was free.
Seeing her come in, Liberty froze for a moment before she showed a polite smile. “Ms. Harmon.”
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