Chapter 4

Jaclyn Rae

Noah opened the car door for me and offered his hand to help me get out from the car. I took his hand and he closed the door for me. He gave his car keys to the valet chauffer and we walked into the restaurant together.

The waiter led us to our table and Noah let me seat on the inner side which near the window that gave us the perfect view of the garden. The waiter gave us the menu and I started to find something that I want to eat.

"How about we order some menu and share it?" Noah asked and I turned to him completely surprise. I never have someone asking me this question before. I looked down the menu. "Sure, surprise me." I closed the menu book and he smiled at me.

He called the waiter and ordered the food by pointing at the menu. The waiter walked away and he ordered wine too. I'll give a plus point for this man, quite impressive.

"Dr. Clayton." I turned to see two women approaching our table. Noah immediately got up from his seat and greeted them but I can see that those girls were batting their eyelashes to him. It was quite obvious that they like him since they're trying their best to flirt and show him their cleavage.

I leaned back full and looked at those two girls amusingly. Noah suddenly excused himself and the two girls looked at me. I gave them a smile and their eyes widened, I bet they know who I am. From smiling widely seeing Noah, they scowled and glared at me coldly before going back to their seats.

"Sorry, their little brother is my patient." Noah said as he sat down and I nodded. The waiter came to us with the wine that he ordered. He poured it to our wine glass and I took a sip of it. "Nice pick, Dr. Clayton."

"Please call me Noah."

"Being a popular cardiologist at the age of 28.. pretty impressive. What makes you want to be a cardiologist?" I put down my wine glass and put my attention fully to him. "I lost my little sister to heart complications 20 years ago so that made me want to save people who have heart problems." He swirled his wine glass.

"I bet she's happy to have a great brother like you. You're saving people now."

"How about you? You have a passion for cars." He put down his wine glass and turned to me.

"Well.. my dad took me to the car factory since I could talk. I grew up looking at beautiful cars and how it's made and I'm loving it."

"You race?" I froze when he asked that and I blinked my eyes a few times to make sure that he's asking if I race. He raised his eyebrows waiting for my answer. "No."

"I guess I was reading a false article then." He chuckled as he took his wine glass again. "I googled you. My mom just told me that you're the woman that my parents trying to arrange me with and I got curious."

Noah Clayton

I can't tell if she's nervous or if she's judging me really hard. Her emerald eyes darken for a second and she was pushing her index finger with her thumb throughout our conversation. As a doctor, I met a lot of patients and I can read their gestures really well sometimes but it seems she's unreadable to me.

"The food is here." Her eyes lit up right away and I turned to see the waiter brought all of our foods. He put it all on the table and I asked for two small plates for us because we're sharing everything. She already got her fork in her hand ready to attack the food.

"Here." I gave her the small plate after the waiter gave it to me. She was going to take the pasta but she looked at me like waiting for approval. I can't help but to chuckle seeing her acting this cute. "You can eat."

She started to eat the pasta first while I cut the lamp chop. She kept looking at me and she ended up waiting for me to eat. "I feel bad for eating first."

"It's okay, I'm just going to cut this and then I'll join you." I said and she smiled. She took her fork again and started to eat the scallops. "This is so good!" She gasped and I put down my knife after finishing cutting all the steak. I gave some lamb chops.

"My dad found this restaurant two years ago and it has become my favorite ever since that." I said as I took a bite of the scallops. "Nice choice."

"As a doctor, are you busy most of the time?" She asked.

"Instead of being busy, we just don't know when we will get called."

"You have a lot of operations huh?"

"Yes but mostly the patients need more attention. They have to be on a certain diet and their activities are really important." I said and she nodded. "How about you? Are you busy most of them time?"

"Not really, I really get a lot of free time but they require me to be there on lots of events. My work is not as hard as my brothers but yeah.." Throughout the dinner, we talked about a lot of things. Our jobs, our favorite movies, our favorite movies and our types. I can say that we connected and I really like talking to her but somehow I felt like those emerald eyes just.. hides a lot of things.

She tended to avoid my eye contacts when we're talking about certain things. I was pretty curious about that and how she avoided my questions about her hobby and her side hustle. There's more than just the Jaclyn Rae that we all know.

"Thank you for the dinner." She said as I stopped my car in front of her mansion. She took off her seatbelt and opened the car door. "I'll text you so we coul-"

"That's the.. problem.." She said as she bit her lips and I raised my eyebrows.

"You're a really great guy, Noah. I really enjoyed your company tonight but I don't think this arrangement will work. We both are busy and besides.. it will be more nice for us to stay friends." I was speechless listening to her stating that. I thought we're doing well and we will progress more than that.

"Okay."

"Good night, Noah. Thank you." She gave me a kiss on the cheek and then got out from my car.