Chapter 254 - Story Of Nina Li

CHAPTER 254: COMPLICATED LOVE

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Not long after the food arrived, Queen Rebecca sent for the six of them. The servers brought a round table and six chairs. They arrange everything in the dining, places the dishes that are brought over. Suddenly, the room seemed like an exclusive dinner for the six of them. 

However, the room has an awkward atmosphere.

Maybe if this occasion hasn't disturbed when Sarah and Nina disappeared, the room would be lively, even if Albert and Steven aren't friendly to each other after treating one another as rivals. 

But it was different now when across from him seated the woman he loved and the man he swears as his rival was intimate to each other. 

Steven attentively fills Nina's plate. Since she still hasn't fully recovered her energy. Steven ensures to cut the steak into small portions. Constantly, he will ask Nina if she would like to try the other dishes, to which she nods and lets Steven put a portion on her plate.

And this makes Albert so jealous. He wants to take care of Nina too. But since his sister also needed a hand, he quietly attended to Sarah's needs. 

Sarah, Greg, and Jessica feel the tension inside the room up to now. They have no will to speak up when the atmosphere is odd. They felt like it's not the proper time to open up any topic to lighten the mood. Besides that, Sarah still has no energy to start a talk, nor Greg thinks it's not the time to throw jokes on the other men in this room. 

However, Greg is worried. He wondered if his cousin truly accepted Steven as his boyfriend. It puzzled him. Or maybe he was only overthinking? He thought to himself.

He just hoped that this Ball was over, and they could go home. This silence and sudden awkwardness are unbearable. Greg heaves a silent sigh, and he continues eating since he was too hungry after beating up James. 

Meanwhile, Jessica also felt weird. Her Miss and Princess Sarah just went missing for less than an hour. Now that they found them, her Miss and Steven acted like a couple. Well, it was Steven who played like a boyfriend. But how about her Miss? She was curious about what's on her mind.

Jessica convinced herself that maybe her Miss did not refuse Steven's sweetness, it was because she was still not feeling well.

She ends up frequently taking a glance at Nina, who is seated next to her. She was trying to discern if Nina's mind changed and choose Steven instead. 

This passing month, after her Miss received Steven's letter last November, she has been preoccupied with something. Her Miss said nothing to her, but it worried her of what she was planning.

Could it be something to do about Harry? Or her Miss has a sudden change of heart? 

From what she was seeing, Nina didn't refuse nor rejected Steven anymore. 

The room was still filled with deafening silence but noises of their utensils clanging into their plates when the Royal private doctors came in to run a quick checkup on Sarah and Nina.

In their initial checkup, aside from dizziness and slight fatigue, the girls are recovering their energy. The doctors give them some pills. Didn't ask what it is; they take the medicine with trust.

Half an hour passed, Sarah and Nina feeling much better and thought it must be the pill they took awhile back. They could now stand and walk around without help. So then, they moved to the room that was closer to the Dance Hall and prepared for the Auction event.

Soon, makeup artists retouched their makeup, and Nina met Val when he visited their room. 

The famous designer chatted with her, and Val makes an offer if she could work with him by wearing his designs. Val learned that Nina's family is well-known in the business world back in her country. Since Nina's family is known in High Society, Val was thinking to use the influence to promote his creation to Asia under Nina's face. 

Nina refused at first, but Val is persistent to pursue her, the reason she desired enough time to think over it. Val explains further. She need not become a model for Val's Fashion House but be a Fashion Icon wearing limited edition clothes that are only made for her. 

Sarah is encouraging her to accept it as Nina need not join the catwalk or runway shows to model Val's creation, but for her to pose in Val's monthly magazine. 

Thinking over it, Nina never imagined herself placed in such an opportunity that was dreamed of for many women around the world. Val said he wants to win the Asian heart, and so this is his huge project for next year. 

Seated on a French love seat, Steven took the space next to her. She was currently contemplating whether she would accept Val's offer. Holding her right hand, Steven spoke beside her. 

"Are you feeling better now? Are you still dizzying? Do you need anything?" Steven asked Nina a series of questions, which Nina partly turned her head toward him. 

Her face lit up as the way he sounded amused her. Steven's voice is full of concern and worries written all over his face. At the moment, Nina ponders. She searches deep down in her heart whether Steven has a place in there. However, all she found there was Harry. 

But Steven constantly showed up at her doorsteps. He won't mind flying this far, just to prove his pure intention how he felt for her. At the moment she accidentally opens the wall she put up between them, Steven showers her with so much affection.

Maybe it's not bad after all. But at the back of her head, screaming at her, it was wrong. And a part of her saying, 'why are you longing for someone who doesn't care about your feelings at all?' 

Now she was torn between the person who loves her and the person she loves. 

Would she give Steven a chance and consider him as her boyfriend? 

Can the heart be taught whom to love? 

Is it more likely she is using Steven as a replacement since Harry already loves someone else? 

Why did she even put in this situation? 

All she wanted is to love someone with all of her heart.

Why was it a complicated thing? 

Frustration was written across her face, and she forgets to pay attention to the guy beside her. Nina remains in deep thoughts when a warm hand gently caresses her face. Only then she returned to herself. She pursed a smile and looked straight into Steven's set of deep black eyes peering at her lovingly. 

And as for a moment, they remain to stare at each of their eyes. It was the scene Albert saw when he entered the room. His jaw tightened, gritted his teeth. 

Sarah helplessly watched her brother darkened his face, while watching Steven and Nina in such sweet interaction; seated in a love seat, hand intertwined, and staring at each other like they are the only people in the room. 

The princess heaves a sad sigh.. She can't do anything to comfort her brother because their parents want him to marry someone else in the first place.