Because You Are My Lady novel (Sharon and Stanley)

Sharon didn't think she would be so unlucky that she was the first one as they began the game. She was afraid that if she picked "dare", they would ask her to kiss a stranger and so on.

She thought for a moment and said, "I choose truth."

Her colleague immediately asked, "When did you lose your virginity? We want details!"

Sharon pursed her lips disapprovingly.

"D*mn, they ask such an explicit question on the first round. These people are so wicked!" she thought.

Sharon was a little embarrassed. After all, she was too young to share such an intimate experience with so many people.

The questioner seemed to have read her mind and immediately said, "We are all adults here and we should be open-minded and larkish when we hang out. Come on, spill it! Skye even told us about her booty calls experience after divorcing her ex just now."

Skye shrugged, thinking that she was simply stating the truth and there was nothing to be shy about.

Sharon bit the bullet and said, "Uh, it was a year ago on a rainy night. I can't remember it clearly, to be frank."

Upon hearing it on the other end of the line, Stanley raised his eyebrows and thought, "Did it rain that night? I remembered that I was drunk after drinking one glass too many, but I didn't notice how was the weather that night?"

The group roared excitedly, "Who is he? Is he your collegemate or a working adult?"

"He is Stanley Jones and definitely an aged sly businessman!" Sharon thought but she dared not to voice it out.

Blushing timidly, she cleared his throat and gave an ambiguous answer, "He is not a student."

They gaped in wonder. "He is a working adult then. What does he do for a living?"

Hearing this, Stanley muttered under his breath despite his indifferent expression, "Idiot."

Then, he turned to the headset and said, "Troy, please remind them that they can only ask one question for "truth", they can't go overboard."

Stanley was curious to hear what Sharon said, but he didn't like to see her in an unfavorable situation.

Troy immediately came to Sharon's rescue as he said, "Hey, you've finished asking the "truth". Don't bully Sharon."

Once Troy said so, they stopped pursuing Sharon for answers.

Breathing a sigh of relief, Sharon looked at Troy and mouthed an inaudible "thank you".

Troy waved his hand and smiled.

They continued with the game.

Their questions for "truth" and challenges for "dare" were so explicit and unreserved that it made the answerer blush.

The Truth or Dare game that young girls played was mostly about asking little secrets and doing simple challenges. It was not as unrestrained as they were playing now.

After a few rounds, Sharon felt like crying when the mouth of the bottle pointed at her again.

It was her unlucky day today as she was picked twice out of five rounds.

Janice rocked with laughter. "It's not that I'm targeting you, but you have very bad luck today. Come on, truth or dare?"

Sharon didn't dare to choose dare as all of them had asked such forthright questions earlier, so she swallowed before saying, "Truth."

"Hey, tone it down, okay? Don't be too explicit."

Sharon almost shed tears of gratitude. "Thank you..."

"Who's your first love? Are you still in touch with him? Are you still thinking about him? Have you ever fallen in love with him?"

This series of questions was indeed less explicit than the previous one, but Sharon's mind went blank after hearing it. She froze for a moment, gaping her mouth to answer but nothing came out.

As everyone locked their intriguing gazes at her, she licked her pale lips and said, feigning composure, "We are all adults, and I'm sure everyone here must have had our first love."

She learned her mistake this time and did not answer the questions as directly as she did in her previous turns.

The questioner asked again, "Have you ever loved him?"

Natural and dignified, Sharon smiled and said, "Yes, I have loved him."

She had also hated him.

Sharon's face turned pale when she thought of the person. "I was young and naive when I fell in love with him. Later, he left me, and my first love ended just like that."

The atmosphere suddenly became a little awkward as they could see that she didn't look very well.

"Okay, next round!"

Skye said, easing the rather awkward situation.

Sharon heaved a sigh of relief.

Sharon, who had been sitting still like a statue on the sofa for a long while, suddenly got up and said, "I don't feel so well, so I'm heading to the restroom. You guys go ahead. Excuse me." Everyone nodded. "Okay. You know where's the restroom is, right?"

"Yes."

Sharon smiled, got up, and went out.

As soon as she left, Skye put down the beer in her hand and glared at Janice who was the questioner just now. "Janice, you've gone too far. Sharon is a newcomer. It's understandable that you want to tease her, but the question is too much."

Janice stuck out her tongue. "I didn't know she was so sensitive, and I was just asking a very common question. It's her problem for not overcoming the hurdle in her heart; she wouldn't look so pale otherwise." Skye said, "All in all, apologize to her when she comes in later."

Janice muttered in a low voice, "I didn't do anything wrong. Why should I apologize..."

Troy quietly went out with his mobile phone. When he couldn't hear a sound on the phone, he asked curiously, "Mr. Jones, are you still there?"

There was a long silence on the phone.

Stanley sat still with a contract on his knees as if he was sizing it up.

Joel watched curiously as Stanley pinched the contract so hard his fingers turned white. "What's wrong with you? You were fine just now, but why did your expression suddenly change..." Before he could finish, Stanley got up and took off his headphones with an unkind look. He carried Jewel up and said, "I'm not signing the contract today. We'll talk about it another day."

"Hey, don't do that." Joel stood up when he heard this. "Beachmarsh City is your territory. Although our Simpson Family is not worse than your Jones Family, our foundation is not in Beachmarsh City and I intend to try my luck here. If I get to cooperate with Jones Group, I'm sure the ship will sail smoothly and I'll start out on a smoother path."

Then, he arched his eyebrows and said, "I've made it so clear. If you don't sign the contract with me today, you're putting me down."

Carrying the unconscious Jewel, Stanley dropped a simple statement without looking back before heading out, "Since you know what's at stake, you should also know that it will hard for you to do anything in Beachmarsh City without my permission. So you'd better beg me for a few more days. Maybe you'll make me happy and I'll gladly sign the contract with you."

Jerk!

Joel stomped his feet in anger. He knew that Stanley was unpredictable, but he didn't expect that he could be so distorted.

In the bathroom.

After washing her face with cold water, Sharon raised her head to look at herself in the mirror again. Thankfully, she looked much better than before.

She turned around and went back to the room, but her thoughts were drifting away.

She remembered that in those days, Shawn Lewis had always been smarter than her. He was quick to learn everything from the teacher's classes or any other things, and she was always slower than him. Even their feelings for each other were the same.

Everyone could see that Shawn was treating her like she was his precious treasure, but she didn't realize any of that so she didn't know his feelings toward her.

It wasn't until one night when Shawn sneaked into her room, pressed her on the bed, and kissed her while warning her not to be too close with the male students in their class that the ignorant her finally realize something...

Suddenly, her thought was cut off when someone tugged her waist with great force.

She was pulled into a warm chest, and her body was shrouded by a man's air of masculinity.