Chapter 172 Join Me

“I feel so bad for you and Joseph," Lisa cried, "This morning when I saw Joseph, he looked serious, and his eyes were red. I was so frightened that he was going to hit me."

“You are overthinking things! He doesn’t hit women,” Kate tried to reassure Lisa.

“He said that if I weren't your friend, he would have beat me. After all, you suffered because of me…" Lisa bit her lip, “It is all my fault. I was only thinking of how to deal with the blind date and not the consequences. If I hadn't lied and said that you were me, you would not have been hurt by Dave. I am so sorry; I will not forgive myself for this."

Kate did not stop her; she knew Lisa had to express her feelings, "My mother also learned a lot; I guess she will not force me into another blind date anytime soon."

Lisa continued to say, “Dave is poor, but pretends to be rich. His child is only in primary school, and he was upset about us lying. If I had known, I would have beat him to death myself. When Joseph found him, his wife begged Joseph to let him go. What was the woman thinking about?"

“Lisa!” Nick called.

Kate waved, and Nick walked over, "Lisa, are you okay? Why are you crying? Don't cry; tell me what happened."

Lisa wiped her tears and snapped, “You hope something happened to me?”

“Of course not. I only heard that you had a rough blind date, so…”

“Don’t mention it!” Lisa hugged her arms and shouted at Nick, causing her rage to ease a little.

“Nick, you keep Lisa company because I need to go change my clothes.”

“Then can we have lunch together? Bring Joseph,” Nick suggested.

Kate agreed immediately and went to Joseph's office to tell him the plan. He shut the door behind her, and she knew exactly what he was thinking; she moved quickly, and embarrassment flashed in his eyes. He frowned and said, "Why don't you let me kiss you?"

“Have you never heard that no matter how delicious the food is, you won’t want it if you eat too much? So, you can’t eat it every day!” Kate chuckled.

Joseph stepped back and said in a low voice, “Are disgusted with me?”

"No," She immediately denied, "I was making a comparison."

"So..." Joseph bent down to kiss her again.

"You didn't get any sleep last night. Nap for a little bit," Kate suggested. She could see the tiredness in his eyes, and her heart ached for him. She pulled him down to the sofa and demanded, "Sleep for an hour now!"

Amused by her serious look, he pulled her down on top of him and asked, "Will you stay with me?"

Kate wanted to say that she had to go to Kate Group, but then she remembered Nick invited them to lunch. She decided to stay with Joseph, or else he would go back to work when she left. She nodded and sighed, "Okay!"

"Okay, I'm here. Go to sleep!”

An hour had passed, and neither Kate nor Joseph came out of the office. Lisa and Nick patiently waited, but it was lunchtime, and they were hungry.

Lisa asked curiously, "Kate agreed to have lunch with us, right?"

Nick smirked, “They have been in there for almost two hours. Only the two of them, so obviously they are doing something personal.”

"Then we don't have to wait; we can go by ourselves. It would be embarrassing to disturb them," Lisa commented after hearing Nick's comment.

"Are you sure?" Nick questioned, “How about we knock on the door and embarrass them?”

Lisa giggled, “You are horrible! In this case, I say we choose not to bother them. If we tease them, they may get upset. You can make a fool out of Joseph, but I won't allow you to bully my best friend!"

"Come on! I'm just joking! I don't have the courage. If Joseph gets angry, he will hurt me!”

Lisa nodded in agreement, "Yes, I can see from how he fixed Dave! That bastard!"

"If anyone dares to bully Kate, he will punish them!”

"Great, Kate finally has someone to protect her!" Lisa said happily.

“Then…Are we going to knock on the door?” Nick was very curious about what was happening inside.

Lisa squinted and rolled her eyes at him, “Let’s go!”

When they turned around to leave, the office door opened, and Kate called to Lisa.

“Kate, you finally came out,” Lisa smiled.

Nick behind Lisa said in a joking tone, “Did we disturb you doing something?”

“We weren’t working, just took a little nap!” Kate was so innocent she didn’t understand what Nick was implying.

“Kate, I mean…”