Chapter 1449

Jack was startled. He looked up across the table and saw Phoebe with a faint blush on her cheeks, her watery eyes quietly gazing at him. She appeared calm, but there was a trace of shyness and annoyance between her brows. There was also a hint of an indescribable emotion. It suddenly dawned on Jack—he had actually been holding Phoebe's hand all along. No wonder the feeling was a little different, but surprisingly pleasant. But the key issue was... all those flirty, shameless things he had written on her hand just now—she had understood them. And even more awkward—she had responded! All those coded messages, those suggestive words… At this point, Jack was starting to see himself as a full-blown playboy in his own mind—two-timing, dating one woman while being married to another, flirting left and right. No wonder Phoebe had been struggling so much earlier. And when he asked her to draw a heart to see if she loved him, she had done it so reluctantly and ambiguously—it left him feelin