The Apple of My Eye
Chapter 580 My Pleasure

"Mr. Lu, please stay away from me. Why are you acting like this?" Sheryl said with consternation. She maintained a safe distance from Charles and continued, "We are not friends. And I bear no grudges agains you, so there is no need for you to come here and apologize."

"What's gotten into you?" Charles frowned and asked her, "How should I know what really happened to you if you wouldn't tell me?"

Sheryl sneered,"Mr. Lu, I don't know you, and you don't know me either. We're just strangers to each other. So I think it would be better for us to stay that way instead of making some fuss. Well, if you'd excuse me, I need to leave."

Sheryl didn't wait for Charles to answer and she immediately left with Shirley. Charles wanted to stop them but he didn't know what to say. So, all he could do was stare at their receding figures. Sheryl was still flustered even when they entered their room. Shirley was standing beside her, frowning a bit. She then shot a timid look at Sheryl. She hadn't seen her mom being like that before. "Sher, I'm hungry," Shirley said in a light voice. Sheryl came back to her senses when she heard that.

She was so pissed off after what happened between her and Charles that she even forgot to take Shirley to dinner.

She bent down and smiled at Shirley. "Honey, mommy will order food delivery, okay?"

"Okay," Shirley answered and sat quietly beside her.

When Sheryl turned on her phone to browse some restaurants and order something for dinner, someone knocked on the door. Shirley ran to open it so it was already too late for Sheryl to stop her. When the door was opened, Anthony was standing there. Sheryl put down her phone and asked, "What are you doing here, Anthony?"

Shirley was happy to see Anthony. She saw that he was carrying some bags in his hands. It must be dinner for them.

"I assumed that you hadn't had dinner yet, so I bought something for you," Anthony confirmed her guess. It seemed like nothing had happened. Anthony acted as normal. He bought the dinner from the restaurant that Sheryl had been fond of when she was still Autumn. He didn't know whether she still liked the food there.

"Smells good," commented Shirley. Shirley was like a greedy little kitten sniffing the bags in Anthony's hands. She also didn't leave Anthony's side when he got in. Sheryl was actually not feeling hungry, but when she smelt the food, she suddenly heard her stomach grumbling, which made her feel a bit embarrassed.

Anthony smiled warmly and said, "Come on, let's have dinner."

Sheryl sat beside Shirley and started skinning shrimps for her.

Anthony brought a lot of food and they wouldn't be able to eat them all, so he put some of them into the fridge. He then sat by the table, took out some tissues for her and said, "Wipe your hands and have your dinner. I can skin shrimps for Shirley."

Anthony behaved so naturally. At the looks of it, he already felt comfortable doing things like that. It was as if he had done that a million times already. Sheryl was somehow already used to it, so she obediently took the tissues, wiped her hands and started eating.

Anthony was quick at peeling the shrimps. Since Shirley was just a little girl, she could easily get full. But Anthony continued peeling shrimps, and this time it was for Sheryl.

The meal tasted delicious for Sheryl, but she felt a little uneasy when she saw Anthony peeling shrimps for her. "You don't need to do this. I'm not a child anymore, I can peel the shrimps myself," she said. "It's all right. It's my pleasure." Anthony smiled. "I would love to skin shrimps for you all my life," he added with a wink.

Sheryl didn't have much reaction on what he said.

"Are you okay?" he asked. He noticed that Sheryl was a bit unhappy after he said those words so he thought she didn't like it.

"Yes, I'm fine," Sheryl answered expressionlessly. She then stood up and started to clean the table. Anthony stopped her and said,"Just leave this to me. I can do this. Just go and stay with Shirley. It's almost her bedtime."

Anthony was the kind of a man who would always be considerate and make arrangements for you, so you wouldn't need to worry about anything if he was with you. Every woman would definitely dream and love to have this kind of a man, but not Sheryl.

She didn't like the feeling of being weak and helpless in front of him. But, how could she tell him about it without offending his feelings?

After dinner, Shirley sat on the sofa to watch TV. After a while, she started looking for her mom. The little girl had played with Amanda the whole afternoon, so she must be dead tired. Sheryl held her in the arms and took her to the bathroom to take a bath. But before she could even finish bathing, Shirley had already fallen asleep, so Sheryl quickly finished bathing her and put her on the bed lightly. "Silly girl," Sheryl whispered while lovingly stroking her wet hair.

After making sure that Shirley was sleeping comfortably, she got out of the room. She didn't see Anthony so she thought he'd already left. However, she found Anthony smoking at the balcony. She opened the door and asked, "Since when did you start smoking?"

"Sorry." Anthony glanced at her and put out his cigarette immediately.

Sheryl couldn't help but frown again.

She hadn't said anything yet but Anthony's already acting like a child who got caught doing something wrong. His abrupt apology gave Sheryl an impression that she was already giving him too much pressure. "I've never seen you smoke before, so I thought that you didn't smoke," Sheryl explained.

Anthony smiled and said, "Yes, I smoke. Actually, I have been smoking for several years already. The reason why you have never seen me smoke is that I've never done it in front of you. I thought you hated the smell of cigarettes and it's also not good for the child.

And I will never do it in front of you."

Sheryl was upset for no reason. She paused a bit before saying to Anthony, "It's getting late, you should leave."

She didn't want to waste both of their times arguing about this matter so she decided to let him go home.

Anthony walked out of the balcony. But he turned back to her and said, "Sher, I've thought about the BM Corporation's contract..."

Sheryl looked at him and noticed the wound on his cheeks. She remembered that she also saw some bruises on Charles' face earlier. She frowned and asked Anthony, "Did you go to see Charles?" Anthony froze for a moment. He thought that it was Charles who told Sheryl that they had seen each other and they had a fight. So he angrily confirmed, "Charles told you that, didn't he? Sher, I've already told you, you have to stay away from him. He's not good to you."

Sheryl didn't know what kind of a man Charles was. But since she heard the story from Isla, at least she could be sure that Charles was a soulful man.

So Sheryl felt a little annoyed when she heard Anthony badmouthing Charles for no reason.

"Anthony, couldn't you just calm down and think about it well? Did you really think Charles would come to me and tell me that you had seen each other? Just seeing the the wounds and bruises on both of your faces, who else won't know what happened?"