She sipped flavored water and stared at Jun Mo. He looked a little uneasy, but handsome. She had never been able to get past how nice his features were.

The perfect arch of his black, bushy brows and his small, pouty lips. Her connection to Edward and his group of friends had never made it past being casual for the most part.

Being children of wealthy and affluent parents, they had often been in the same circles but somehow, she seemed to want really different things than the others who were quite content to blend into the corporate world of business that their parents had carved out for them.

And just when they might have been able to bond better in their adulthood, her career in modelling had taken off massively forcing her to spend more and more time away, sometimes, several weeks and even months touring different cities and sleeping with nothing but her soft hotel pillows.

But she had always had a soft spot for this particular man seated before her in this moment. His calm and ostensible innocence seemed like a fitting balance for her much more outgoing and exposed personality.

She did want to discuss important things with him, but a part of her was just simply happy to be alone here with him.

She thanked her friend, Amy for having a crisis at the right moment thereby enabling her o engage in a mission for which no one else would make a better partner.

”It’s been a while,” Jun Mo said, breaking the silence and forcing Chynna to the present.

’You look fantastic as ever,’ is what she wanted to say but opted instead for something less dramatic.

”I see you have been well,” she responded finally and in the most casual tone she could manage.

”It appears you had quite the fun night last night. Anything particularly worth celebrating happen?”

He was smiling. It was a soft, almost imperceptible shift in his facial muscles but Chynna caught it.

”Stop it!” she responded. Her hand shot out of its own accord and stuck him lightly across the arm.

She hooted in surprise but Jun Mo merely laughed. He seemed pleased at her reaction to his teasing.

They smiled at each other for a few seconds, and then Chynna blurted out her reasons for having called Jun Mo over.

”Look, I know this might sound odd to you but I really, really need your help,” she said.

”Anything,” he replied easily. “But what is it about?” he asked again.

”It’s my friend, Amy. I know you must have met her. I think she has fallen in love with your friend Edward but those two are so, so stubborn and I just need to know if you have noticed anything about how your friend feels for her.

To be quite honest, I am even more pressed to find out than Amy is. She does not even know I’m here,” Chynna laughed nervously.

Jun Mo looked like he had just been thrown into a crowd of unclad women. His face had turned a bright red.

Thinking about Edward having feelings for a girl was one thing. Having to answer questions from the said girl’s friend seemed to be too much for him to take especially with the way Chynna had just unloaded it all on him without preamble.

”Well, what do you think?” she prodded, after giving Jun Mo what she believed to be ample time to get a grip on his secondhand embarrassment.

”Well… I… he…” Jun Mo stuttered. He did not know what to say. The others had tried to get word out of him concerning Amy but he had not let anything spill and now he did not know whether it would be his place to share his own perceptions of the whole events.

It would be bad to be the one who raised her hopes, because with his friend, he could never be too certain.

If things turned out in such a way that they had all been wrong about Edward fancying her, he would not like to be in any way connected to whatever hurt the poor girl would have to go through.

Chynna watched him intently as his thoughts flittered through his mind. She wondered if maybe this was too much trouble for him and was starting to regret it.

She was just really trying to ease her friend’s suffering but it did not look at all like it would work out.

”I have met your friend,” Jun Mo spoke up, having finally found his voice. “She seems like a really nice young woman. And Edward says she does her job perfectly well.

I think I can believe him because he is such a hard man to please and the few occasions on which I’ve been privileged to see your friend attend to his needs at the office, Edward is not wrong at all.”

”But does he like her?” Chynna queried. She was starting to get impatient with Jun Mo’s ramblings.

She needed to know whether she ought to be helping her friend prepare for the letdown it would be to find out that she really was not at all special to her boss.

”I really cannot say, Chynna. You know, Edward is different…” Jun Mo sighed. He did not know if people on the outside could understand how his friend was.

But he thought if anyone could try, then Chynna would. He would take his chances and explain it how best he could.

”Edward has suffered some brutal losses in his life and I think it makes him a little closed off from anyone and anything that is not his business or his friends,” he continued.

Chynna could swear she saw him smile a little at the mention of the last bit. She smiled too in reaction.

”But even the busiest of men have time for love, no?” Chynna asked.