CHAPTER 214: CHAPTER 212 ENGAGEMENT RING [2 MORE UPDATES]

Liam Spencer looked at someone’s indifferent attitude, shook his head helplessly, then turned to the sales assistant and asked, "Is Manager Harring here?"

"Young Master, Mr. Harring..."

"Young Master, I’m here, I’m here! I was just in the vault inspecting your engagement ring." At this moment, a middle-aged man in his forties hurriedly came out holding a security box, interrupting the sales assistant.

"Oh, thank you."

"Young Master, there’s no need to be so polite. It’s our honor to have you visit our store. Here, please take a look at your engagement ring." As he spoke, the man opened the box, took out the ring, and presented it to Liam.

He continued, "Young Master, rest assured about the ring. I personally flew abroad and stayed by Mr. Charlie’s side for 24 hours to ensure he personally crafted it."

"Manager Harring’s work is indeed reassuring."

Then, Liam handed the ring to Maya Spencer and asked, "Maya, do you like it?"

Maya looked at the ring handed over by Liam, glanced up at him, and reached out her small hand to take it.

After accepting the ring, she examined it thoroughly. It had a strong 3D feel and a bright luster, but there wasn’t a single diamond on it. It was just a bare circle, looking like a small iron hoop.

Maya looked at the ring, rolled her eyes at Liam, and scolded, "Really stingy."

"Pfft!" Behind the counter, the sales assistant couldn’t help but laugh at Maya’s cute demeanor.

At this moment, Manager Harring hurriedly explained, "Mrs. Spencer, this ring set is ten times more expensive than the previous one! And it’s unique, exclusively designed by Young Master and handcrafted. Mr. Charlie is a top jeweler in the world."

"Look at the inner circle of the ring. That was intricately carved by Mr. Charlie after days and nights without sleep. And if you lightly touch the rings together, or even just touch your own ring, it plays a crisp musical tune like a music box, thanks to the carving technique developed by the Young Master."

Outside the counter, Maya listened to the man’s extravagant words, squinting slightly and looking at him with half disbelief.

She then lifted a ring, observed the pattern inside, and discovered a circle of olive branches with the initials JY and JX, the abbreviation of their names.

Maya looked at the olive branch pattern and burst into laughter.

Other people’s rings have hearts intertwined, or hand in hand, but theirs had olive branches. Olive branches symbolize peace!

She suddenly found Liam to be so endearing, expecting peace.

Next to her, Liam watched her laughing so heartily, rubbing his head in distress.

He thought, could it be wrong to have olive branches between them? Wanting peace, is that wrong?

As he was about to retort, Maya suddenly stood on tiptoe, lifted her small hands, and stroked his face, saying, "You’re so amusing, olive branches, how did you come up with that? Watching too much Olympics?"

"Pfft!" The man couldn’t help but laugh at her demeanor.

Feeling her small hands gently stroking his face and hearing her cheerful, charming voice, he really wanted to handle her, really wanted to.

But the timing was not right.

At this moment, Maya forgot that their engagement was just for show.

Lately, everything he did made her so fond of him, making her forget to hate him.

Afterwards, she removed her small hands, picked up the rings, lightly touched them together, held them to her ear, and sure enough, heard the crisp music like a music box, just as Manager Harring said.

So, she exclaimed, "Wow, it really does play!"

Then, she stood on tiptoe again and held the ring to Liam’s ear, letting him hear it too.

Liam watched the girl’s happy expression, hugged her waist tightly with both hands, gently leaned down, and listened close.

The effect was just as he expected; Mr. Charlie’s craftsmanship didn’t let him down.

Watching the girl’s earnest expression, he ruffled her hair and asked, "Do you like it?"

Maya nodded, unable to stop smiling, she said, "Especially this olive branch."

Liam watched the girl’s cute smile, picked up the small ring from her hand, grabbed her left hand, and directly placed it on her ring finger.

The size was just right, neither too big nor too small.

Then, he extended his large hand, spread it before Maya, gesturing for her to put a ring on him.

The girl saw his serious expression, and images of their time together these days flashed in her mind, followed by memories of grievances from three years ago.

When she thought of lying on the operating table back then, her throat suddenly felt sore.

She wanted to blame him, wanted to scold him.

But he didn’t know the truth, so how could she blame him?

Seeing the girl suddenly silent, Liam bent down, lifted his right hand, and gently nudged her chin with his fingers, "Hmm?" he questioned softly, indicating he wanted to know why she suddenly seemed upset.

Maya looked up, meeting his eager gaze.

Unavoidably, she remembered when he kissed her when she choked; remembered him buying her sanitary pads; remembered him knowing she approached him with a motive, yet still signing the contract and ordering the rings for her.

Thus, she took a deep breath, picked up the ring meant for him, and placed it on his ring finger.

She told herself that back then, he wanted that child, eagerly anticipated that child’s arrival.

So, she told herself he cared about that child.

Maya didn’t realize she was already making excuses for Liam.

On the way home, Maya sat in the passenger seat, but her gaze kept falling on the ring.

Finally, she frowned, looked into his eyes, and asked, "Is this act a bit too much? Feels so formal."

Liam looked at the girl’s tightly furrowed brows, reached out with his right hand, pinched her chin, and asked, "If you don’t fool yourself first, how can you fool others?"

When it came to making excuses, Liam had a ton, and the most troublesome part was that Maya actually believed them all.

Moreover, their relationship improved day by day, and lately, Maya didn’t even kick him out during their bickers.

That morning, while the two were fooling around in bed, Maya’s phone rang.

Hearing the ringtone, she kicked Liam aside, rolled over, answered the phone, and asked, "Ella, what’s up?"

Liam heard it was Ella Turner’s call and quickly pinned Maya beneath him, rudely pulling her clothes apart, teasing her.

Since Ella reunited with Maya, she’s been taking up a lot of Maya’s time.

So, he was a bit jealous.

Seeing him starting to mess around, Maya quickly covered the phone, glared at him, and softly commanded, "Get off, I’m on the phone."

However, Liam completely ignored her command,

and graciously reminded her, "If you don’t answer soon, Ella might get suspicious."

Seeing this, Maya lightly slapped his handsome face and said, "Stay quiet, wait till I’m done with the call to deal with you."