My Substitute CEO Bride (Nash Calicraft) novel Chapter 2423

"What's up, Teresa?"

"What's going on with you today?" Teresa asked. "You've seemed distracted all day. Is something on your mind?"

"Oh, it's nothing."

Kalo joked, "Haha, it must be because today's opponents didn't interest him at all, so he's feeling a bit let down."

"Kalo, stop projecting your own thoughts onto others," Anox teased.

"I'm not!"

"Yes, you are."

"Anox, you jerk!"

The group started playfully bickering again, drawing amused looks from nearby diners who found the lively group of five entertaining.

That night, after eating and drinking to their hearts' content, they went shopping.

"Oh! They have cotton candy!" Teresa exclaimed.

"Where? Where?" Kalo looked around eagerly.

"Over there! Let's go, let's go!"

Thresmund, Teresa, and Kalo browsed through the various cotton candy stalls. With so many choices, Teresa, who had trouble making decisions, found herself in a dilemma.

"Which one should I pick?"

Meanwhile, Anox and Chevy were sitting at the bus stop across the street. They had missed the green light because they walked too slowly, so they decided to rest for a bit.

"A hundred seconds for a red light. It's so long."

"It's not that bad," Anox replied.

Chevy suddenly shifted the conversation.

Anox began to understand Chevy's point.

"You..."

"Anox, when do you plan to confess to Teresa?"

"Huh?" Anox's face flushed red at the question, and the red light made it even more obvious.

"Anox, you can fool yourself, and you can fool those around you, but are you really going to keep pretending? What will you do when these hundred seconds are up? Are you just going to keep going?"

Anox stood up and walked over to the edge of the road, his expression dark. He could not bring himself to answer Chevy's question. Of course, Chevy had expected this reaction.

"A gentle older brother and a straightforward younger brother—who will take that first step? And when they do, what will the other feel?"

It was clear to anyone paying attention that both Anox and Kalo liked Teresa, and they also knew that they both had feelings for her.

This left them conflicted and unsure of how to express their emotions. They knew that any choice they made would come with regret.