"Jimmy?" Zena stared at James in a daze. Then she smiled gently, "It's you?"
"Why are you here?" James frowned.
"Me?" Zena pointed at herself and then put down her hand, "I'm here to drink, ha-ha..."
James took a deep breath and looked at Zena's dizzy face, "How much did you drink?" He didn't want to care about her at first, but he had known her for so many years. She was a woman, and she was so drunk...
It really annoyed him!
Hearing this, Zena thought about it seriously, "Hmm... Nine glasses of wine? Or over ten glasses of wine? I can't remember it."
"Let's go. I'll hail a taxi for you. Don't drink here anymore." No matter what she had done before, he could not leave her alone here. There were all kinds of people in the bar. If she really met bad people, he wouldn't feel at ease.
"No!" Zena shook her head, "I want to drink! I'm so irritated!"
"Don't drink anymore."
However, Zena didn't listen to him. She pointed to the private box behind James, "You... were drinking here just now, weren't you?" Before James could answer, she pushed James aside and sneaked in.
James frowned hard. He wanted to turn around and leave, and didn't want to care about her. However, in the end, he gritted his teeth and and entered the private box.
"Look, there's wine left." Zena took a bottle of wine which had been drank about a third of it and shook it excitedly.
"Hey!" James growled, "Don't drink anymore!"
"Anyway, you've paid for it. Don't be so petty." Zena ignored him, directly grabbed a glass on the table and poured herself a glass of wine, "Just let me drink three glasses of wine, okay?"
Zena drank up all the wine in the glass, and then looked at James who was standing opposite the table. She patted the seat next to her, "Jimmy... Sit down!" Saying this, she took another empty glass and poured a glass of wine for James, "Just... drink with me. It's boring to drink alone."
James did not sit down, nor did he take the glass of wine, "If you want to drink, hurry up. I'll hail a taxi for you."
Zena smiled and did not mind his bad attitude. As she said, after drinking three glasses of wine, she shook the empty glass in her hand and said, "Alright... I'm done..."
Let s go.
Zena grabbed the glass with more strength and looked at James, saying bitterly, "Jimmy, do you... have to speak to me like this?"
Zena put the glass on the table and said sadly, "I... didn't expect to meet you here today... The moment I saw you, I was really happy. It is... fate, isn't it? But why do you have to speak to me in such a tone? Just because I left you back then and said those words to Elizabeth?"
James said with an unpleasant face, "You're right."
"Since you blame me... why did you say that you would hail a taxi for me? Why are you staying with me here?"
"There's no reason." What happened in the past was still hanging over him.
James nodded and smiled helplessly, "You can think so. Before I met her, I didn't know how it felt to love a person for real. After I met her, I realized that I used to like you just because I was jealous of Xavier. I wanted to defeat him and take away everything he had."
"At most, I just liked you, but it was not love."
When you loved someone, you would always think about him. You would care about whether he was cold or hot, happy or sad. Even if that person was right in front of you, you would miss him. You could change yourself for him, and even think that you couldn't see him enough. You would wish that you could have magic and put him in your pocket at any time.
Maybe James once had these feelings towards Zena, but they were not strong. On the contrary, Elizabeth, whom he loved and hated, always tugged at his heartstring.
The cup in Zena's hand fell to the ground and broke into pieces. But she had no time to care about it. She only felt very uncomfortable and could not accept James's words.
"You were so kind to me at that time, weren't you?"
"But it didn't mean that I loved you."
Zena gave a wry smile, "Jimmy, do you have to be so cruel? Maybe I can't get you again. In the future... we may have very few chances to meet. Can't you just give me some happiness which is worth remembering? Can't you deceive me? You even speak to me so harshly at this time."
James did not feel guilty. He said, "If you didn't ask me, I wouldn't say that. I don't like to lie. You know me."
"So I asked for it?"
Have you really never loved me?"
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