Chapter 882: Chapter 882: I Order You Not to Get Engaged to Ethan Sterling!
Ethan Sterling nodded, looking at Arnold gently, "Okay, Monica, you catch up with your leader while I head back first."
After speaking, Ethan Sterling turned and left.
But before leaving, Ethan Sterling gave Mark a glance filled with hostility.
After Ethan Sterling left, Arnold walked over to Mark.
She looked at Mark and asked again, "Leader, why are you here?"
Mark retracted his gaze from where Ethan Sterling had left, turned to Arnold, and answered her question, "I came to see you, to check if your eye is better?"
"It’s better now." Arnold lowered her eyes sadly, politely said, "Thank you, Leader."
"Hm." Mark stood there looking at Arnold for a long moment and then suddenly asked, "I heard you’re getting engaged to Ethan Sterling?"
Arnold was taken aback, then nodded, "Yes."
Mark pressed on, "Do you like him?"
Arnold looked up at Mark, "I..."
She really wanted to tell Mark that she didn’t like Ethan Sterling at all. From start to finish, she had only ever liked one person, the hero in her heart, whom she had been chasing all along.
But the Leader already has a child, so what’s the point of saying all this now?
Her secret crush would inevitably remain an unrequited love.
Arnold looked at Mark with indescribable heartache, unable to reveal her true feelings to him, but also unable to falsely claim that she liked Ethan Sterling.
Not revealing her true feelings to Mark was because Arnold wanted to end this bitter one-sided love.
And she couldn’t falsely say she liked Ethan Sterling, because deep down there was still a flicker of hope, the hope that Mark might come to love her.
At this moment, Arnold even wondered why the Leader suddenly came to her, asking if she was getting engaged to Ethan Sterling and if she liked him?
Could the Leader like her?
As soon as this thought emerged, Arnold smiled bitterly: How could that be possible?
But just at this moment, as Arnold was smiling bitterly, Mark’s voice rang out with a questioning tone, "Didn’t you say you liked me before? How come you’ve so quickly liked him, huh?"
As Mark’s words fell, Arnold’s mind exploded.
She opened her eyes wide in shock, staring dazedly at Mark, not daring to believe that everything she just heard might actually be said by the Leader?
She even seriously doubted that she heard nothing at all and that everything was just a figment of her imagination?
Arnold looked at Mark, and asked in a daze, "Leader, what did you just say?"
Mark: "..."
Were his words really that unbelievable?
As her Leader, after being told she liked him and being someone she’d chased for such a long time, wasn’t it quite normal for him to ask?
Mark looked down at the girl who was staring wide-eyed at him, and spoke again, "I said, didn’t you say you liked me before? How come you’ve so quickly liked Ethan Sterling?"
Hearing Mark say such words again, Arnold was still utterly shocked.
Arnold looked at Mark in disbelief, even reaching out to pinch her own cheek...
Witnessing the cute action of the girl in front of him, Mark suddenly felt a strong impulse, an impulse to pull the girl into his embrace tightly.
And this impulse was very strong, stronger than the impulse Mark had earlier to hack off Ethan Sterling’s wandering hand.
Due to this impulse, Mark reached out his hand.
But just as Mark extended his hand, he suddenly calmed down.
Once calm, Mark immediately retracted his hand he had just extended and put it back into his trouser pocket, pulling out his cigarette and lighter.
Mark took a cigarette out of the pack, lit it, and placed it against his thin lips, taking a deep breath irritably.
Then Mark looked up at the moon in the night sky, exhaling smoke rings slowly, little by little.
What’s happening?
How did he end up like this?
Could he possibly have feelings for Arnold?
No, that’s impossible!
He clearly liked and loved Melody!
Yes, he loved Melody so deeply, how could he like another girl so quickly?
Undeniably, Mark’s question easily shook Arnold’s heart.
Arnold widened her eyes at Mark, not knowing whether Mark understood what his question meant to her?
Moreover, Arnold couldn’t understand and desperately wanted to know why Mark asked her this question. Was it because he realized he had some feelings for her?
But just as this tiny expectation arose in Arnold’s heart, she was reminded of the child she saw in the apartment, and of the person that lived in Mark’s heart...
At this moment, watching Mark’s vexed smoking actions, Arnold’s heart, which had just been shaken, plummeted back down to the original spot, and it dropped even deeper.
Calming down from her shock and fantasies, with a heart that had fallen to the bottom, Arnold’s face revealed an extremely bitter smile.
Arnold raised her head slightly, looking at the irritated smoking Mark, and spoke slowly, forlornly, "Yes, I did like the Leader before, but doesn’t the Leader not like me?"
After saying this, Arnold slightly arched her lips, feeling she had managed a perfect smile, and resolutely said, "So I’ve decided to give up. From now on, I won’t let myself interfere with the Leader’s happiness any longer..."
"Ha, happiness?" Mark laughed bitterly in self-mockery.
Is liking him whenever she wants and giving up when she doesn’t without considering his opinion?
Mark irritably, forcefully threw away the cigarette in his hand.
Then he looked at Arnold, commanding in a way that brooked no argument, "Listen, I order you not to get engaged and to return to the team immediately!"
Arnold: "..."
What kind of scene is the Leader creating now?
Forbidding her to get engaged and demanding she return to the team immediately?
Does he truly not realize that his words might cause her to misunderstand?
Arnold looked at Mark and stated the facts, "Leader, I’ve already left the special forces!"
"Hmph!" Mark snorted coldly, very dissatisfied with Arnold’s answer as he looked at her, "What? Just because you’ve left, I can’t control you anymore?"
Mark moved closer to Arnold, looking down at her, "As long as I’m still your leader, I absolutely have a say! You are not allowed to get engaged to Ethan Sterling!"
After saying this, Mark looked at Arnold with great presence and asked in a deep voice, "Did you hear me?"
"Yes!" Arnold straightened up, obediently saying, "I heard it. If the Leader says no engagement, then no engagement. Arnold will definitely follow the Leader’s orders."
