Chapter 97: Good Shot
He had a hunch about who the girl was.
Of course, he had no interest in the girl from the photos, who was a high school student at the time. But strangely, Selene’s face was embedded in his mind.
Then, Clint started his business in Houston. He had several girlfriends over the years, but these relationships never lasted for long. He was a workaholic, and women easily fell in love with him but would also end their relationship just as easily due to his boring dates and dullness.
The success in his career made up for his lack of luck in the relationship department.
In the year of Selene’s graduation, Anne had some serious health problems. She had planned to attend Selene’s graduation ceremony secretly, but she couldn’t since she was bedridden and had to stay in hospital.
In order to cheer Anne up, Bradley asked Clint to attend the graduation ceremony and snap some photos of Selene for her mother.
He had never seen Selene in person up to that point. He had only seen her in photos.
Clint took a camera and went to Selene’s college and saw many other graduates.Property © NôvelDrama.Org.
He eventually found the right podium, and he was going to ask a student to help him find Selene. But, suddenly, a familiar girl graced his eyesight.
It was Selene. He recognized her from the photos. Though she now looked slightly different than what she had looked like in the photos, he was confident that this was the right girl.
Clint had seen many beauties, but strangely, when he first saw Selene, he thought she was so beautiful that no words could describe it.
He secretly took many photos of her. He followed her around for a while.
He had never secretly taken anyone’s picture before, and it felt very strange for Clint to be doing that. But luckily, many others were walking around with cameras in their hands, so he didn’t look out of place.
Selene eventually ran into him and asked him to take photos of her and her friend. They then had their first dialogue.
“Hi, could you take a photo of us?”
He looked at her and nodded.
They were very close, close enough for him to smell her fragrance. His head was in the clouds.
“Here they are.” He took some photos of her and handed the camera to Selene.
Selene took the camera and looked at the screen with her friend. She smiled happily and gave the camera back to Clint. “Good shot. Thank you.”
She then left with her friend.
Clint looked at her as she left and didn’t follow.
He felt something strange all of a sudden. He didn’t recognize the feeling.
He decided just to leave and go back home. He gave Anne the photos, and she was very happy. She recovered soon after that.
But his parents didn’t know that he had kept the photos on his computer, too. So he placed all of them into one file and named it “Her.”
Clint didn’t see Selene for quite a while after her graduation. Houston was a big city, and even though they both lived there, there was a good chance that they would never see each other ever again.
And Clint was fine with that.
But he never forgot her.
Sometimes, when he was working on his computer, he would click on the file and wonder how her life was going.
He kind of lost interest in dating around after that.
He met Selene again two years later. On that day, he had moved into a new apartment, and he saw a random clothes store when driving down the street. However, as he looked at the store, he spotted a familiar figure standing in front of it.
It was her.
He stopped his car and sat across the street, staring at the store for a long time. At that moment, he regarded that store as a Pandora’s box.
From that day on, he always used this street when going to work, even though there were many alternative routes to his business.
Two months later, he stepped out of his car and walked into it.
He pushed the door open and saw Selene sitting there with some light makeup on. She looked beautiful- Feminine and cold.
Selene smiled at him and asked, “Hello there, sir. What can I do for you? Would you like to take a look at our catalog?
Clint froze, and then he nodded his head.
In Selene’s eyes, however, he only looked very cold and distant.
When she measured his size, he enjoyed the sweet smell of her perfume, reminding him of their initial meeting.
So, from then on, Clint went to Selene’s store every month and would order two suits each time. Clint would see her twice each month, once when placing the order and once when collecting the suits.
Their relationship remained strictly professional, and their conversations seldom deviated from the business at hand.
Clint, who was 28 years old at that time, knew clearly that he had fallen in love with her.
He eventually found out that she had a boyfriend who lived in a different city and that she was waiting for him to return.
Because of this, he never even attempted to make a move.
Two years passed, and things stayed the same. He was only one of her loyal customers.
All of his suits were made by her. But that was their only interaction.
However, that drunken night changed everything.
On that evening, he had had too much to drink during dinner, but when he was taken home by Selene, he had managed to sober up a little. And, when she was ready to leave, he caught her hand subconsciously. When he saw her lying beside him, he was totally lost and couldn’t help himself.
The next morning, when he woke up and saw Selene’s sleeping form beside him, Clint realized that he had done something wrong.
He had thought that he could control himself around her, but at that moment, he knew he had been wrong.
When she asked him to take responsibility, he said without hesitation that he was willing to marry her.