Burning Passion

CHAPTER 348: THE TRUTH

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"Alright! Relax! I'm not going to bite you!" Sam joked to Jessica, to whom the girl furrowed her brows, and now wearing a long face.

'Damn this girl. Nina was too modest and polite. Why is her attendant the opposite of her?' Sam mumbled inwardly. Now his impression of Jessica is an aloof woman, a person you should not mess up with. 

"Are we just going to stare at each other?" Jessica asked Sam bluntly, which made him laugh and shake his head. 

"Okay!" Sam raised both of his hands, surrendered, and gestured that he would now stop teasing her. Then Sam wipes the smile on his face, replacing it with a serious expression. After a moment of silence, he began asking Jessica. "Tell me, what happens to Steven? Harry seemed not to be telling the truth to me." 

Jessica is glaring at Sam downward. She ponders if he is a trusted person. Instead of answering Sam, Jessica returned a question. "Do you want to know the truth?" 

Jessica is shooting him a measuring look. Sam is more convinced that the issue is not simple. Nodding, he replied, "Yes." 

Jessica then began telling Sam. "They forbid Steven to get near Miss Nina." 

Creased on his forehead, Sam gives Jessica a perplexed expression. The confusion was written all over his face. "Why? Isn't he and Nina engaged?" 

"And who says that?" Jessica snapped at him.

Sam replied, "Steven... He's been telling anyone about it." 

"And you believe in him?" 

Sam rendered speechlessly. Now he was extremely confused. "I don't understand," Sam expressed. He queried further, "If it's a lie? Why Harry did not correct it?" 

Jessica only rolled her eyes. She mumbled, "Because Steven is also lying to Harry." 

"Wait... It's getting more confusing to me. Steven and Nina have been in a relationship for a long time, right?" 

"Says who?" Jessica raises a brow. And Sam was getting annoyed at how blunt and cold she is. 

"Can you just tell me what all you know? I think it will take us a whole night if we keep clashing words." 

Again, Jessica is looking at Sam downward. The guy chose to avert his gaze, suppressed to roll an eye. Sam realized Jessica was this fierce and stubborn. Her aura could intimidate someone like him.

After a moment of silence between them, he heard Jessica heaved a sigh. Her face is also calmer now than before. 

"Steven is not Miss Nina's fiancé or boyfriend. Steven only spread lies because he knew that Harry also likes Nina." 

Sam recalled what he saw earlier. Now that Jessica opens up to him. He could start playing scenarios in his head. 

"The only matter is, Harry gives way for Steven." Jessica then went on. "But after Miss Nina rejects him, Steven continues lying to you all, claiming Miss Nina as his girlfriend. What's worse, Steven told Miss Nina that Harry has a girlfriend named Kristina. Miss Nina believes in him. It was the truth, the reason she finally accepted Steven's persistence." 

"Wait... So you say that Steven and Nina just recently became a couple? I could not follow." 

"Yeah." 

Jessica rolled her eyes one more time. It made Sam believe she didn't like Steven at all. "So what happens then?" 

"What happens next? Stupid Harry courted another girl! Miss Nina just learned that..." Jessica paused; she just remembered that Sam is Kristina's cousin. Seeing that Sam rose a brow, she coughs. "Harry and Miss Nina, who must get married. But Steven did all this lying to meddle in them. Furthermore, the reason Li forbids him to see Miss Nina is that he attempts to assault her many times." 

"What!?" Sam wanted to believe that his ears were playing on him. Can Steven do that? He knew him as a playboy. He even admired Steven for how proud he is of telling everyone that he has a girlfriend. Since then, he stops fooling around. Now what? 

"He first did it back in England last Christmas. If you don't believe it, then it was your choice. Anyway, Harry saw the bruises on Nina's wrists the next day she just arrived in New Jersey." 

"Wait! Isn't that their parents arrive the next day?" 

Nodding, Jessica went on. "Yes. We believe Steven tried to force Miss Nina to sleep with him so that their parents hurried the marriage." 

"Okay..." Sam ponders. Nina's background is not an ordinary family. Back in their country, it considers noble. And as a member of a prominent family, they have culture and tradition to follows.

Moreover, Nina was raised being demure and modest, who sleeps with a man should be happened after marriage. That is why, to her family, it is important to keep her dignity and purity. 

"Okay. I'm slowly understanding everything," stated Sam. 'So then, what will happen to Kristina?' 

Even his cousin wouldn't admit it, but he could tell that Kristina is in love with Harry. 

"Sam, I want you to remember. If Steven didn't crawl his way, there's no Steven and Nina or Harry and Kristina." 

Sam couldn't help to raise a brow. After Jessica quoted that, she then left without another word of goodbye or what. She simply walked past him. 

Besides, she's the one who said straight to the point, but now she's throwing riddles at him.

Sam frowned. He followed Jessica. When he caught up with her pace, Sam made a remark that left Jessica throwing a tantrum. 

He said, "You know what? You acted like an old maid. With your attitude, you cannot get a boyfriend. Who would be interested in you?" 

Blue veins appeared on Jessica's forehead. She felt the need to murder someone at the moment. 

"It's none of your business! Neither am I looking for one! I have no plan of getting married!" 

Snapping behind Sam, she took big steps and walked past him. Inwardly, Sam played an amusing smile.

He could not believe that Jessica would get annoyed by his words. He honestly admits that sounds too much. But she barely smiles. He heard the boys having a crush on her. 

"Tell me if you want a blind date! I can refer you, someone!" Sam just wanted to annoy Jessica further. And it left him laughing when Jessica showed an f...ck y... sign. 

"I think I tease her too much." Later, Sam feels a little regret. 

Unknowingly, an amusing smile lingering across his face.