Dumped My Cheating Ex. Now I'm Sleeping Next to a Billionaire CEO novel Chapter 1697

At those words, Quincy froze completely, as if a bucket of ice water had been dumped over his head. Beside him, Chloe's eyes sparkled. She immediately wrapped herself around Quincy's arm like a koala. Tilting her pretty face up, she pouted affectionately. "Captain Quincy, look, the nice lady even said so. Just be my boyfriend, okay?"

"Yeah, Quincy," a lazy, highly punchable voice drawled as Steve strolled over with his long legs. Stopping in front of the two, Steve looked at Quincy with a half-smile. "Chloe is adorable. Her family has protected her well since childhood, and she has never even been in a relationship. You really struck gold this time, kid. Do not take your blessings for granted."

Quincy glared coldly at Steve's mocking face, so furious he was ready to grind his back teeth to dust. "Steve! Using such underhanded tricks just to chase after Sylvia... your methods are truly despicable!"

Hearing this, Sylvia froze for a second, the hands hanging at her sides instinctively balling into fists.

Steve narrowed his sharp, alluring eyes and let out a scoff. "Despicable?" His tone carried a reckless arrogance. "Your Captain James saw all you grown men staying single day after day and asked me to find suitable matches for you guys. I am just doing exactly what your Captain James ordered. I put in the money, the effort, and even offered up my own cousin, and yet you call me despicable? By your brilliant logic, wouldn't your Captain James be even more despicable?"

"Bullshit!" Quincy was enraged by his twisting of the truth. His eyes turned red as he took a huge step forward, looking ready to throw punches at Steve right then and there.

"Captain Quincy! Do not be reckless!" Chloe was terrified and quickly hugged his arm tight. Her eyes reddened with anxious tears as she looked up at him. "Captain Quincy, please do not blame my cousin. I really do like you! This has nothing to do with him! When he sent me your photo, I fell for you at first sight! I was so afraid someone else would snatch up such an amazing man, which is why I gathered the courage to come running over here to pursue you." As she spoke, Chloe grew more and more distressed until tears began to fall, glistening droplets rolling down her pale cheeks. "Please do not be mad... I just like you so much..."

"Captain Quincy!" Chloe grabbed onto him tightly, crying even harder than before. "Captain Quincy, please do not leave! I really like you. I have never even held your hand before. I do not want to go through a breakup right when I am trying to fall in love for the first time... Please, I am begging you, do not leave me here all alone..."

The young girl sobbed until she could barely catch her breath. Looking at her pitiful state, no one would have the heart to just shake her off and walk away. Quincy's footsteps halted. Looking into Chloe's tear-filled, pleading eyes, he ultimately couldn't harden his heart enough to push her away. He sighed, staying behind to comfort her helplessly. "Alright, please stop crying. I am not leaving."

Hearing this, Chloe's face broke into a radiant smile, even as tears still clung to her eyelashes. Like a little girl who had just been given the whole world, she tightly gripped his wrist and shook it gently.