Filed to story: My Gorgeous Wife is an Ex-Convict Novel by Anastasia Marie
Nonsense! Of course, she was anxious, especially now that she did not know exactly when this fellow would let her go.
“I don’t want my friends and parents to worry,” she said.
Her words seemed to trigger him. His eyes turned cold as he sneered. “You’re afraid they’ll worry, but did you ever think that I’ll worry too?”
Lina Sweeney choked. A hint of guilt flashed across her face. “I… I had an emergency…”
“Emergency?” He snorted. “Your emergency is to come back and help your friend with her case? You didn’t even give me a heads. up… Did you only take me as a fling from the very beginning?”
Lina Sweeney knew it was her fault. She was traveling abroad to visit the school she was going to study in the future when she had met him by chance.
At the time, she had no idea what was going to happen between them. They just made a natural connection. It was like getting acquainted with a compatriot in a foreign country.
He would take her to the local scenic spots and eat some local specialties.
She enjoyed herself those few days. She had also thought about
She had always defined him as a friend, but it was not like she was not attracted to him.
After all, his looks were just her type!
His handsome face had a kind of feminine beauty-delicate features, fair skin, and ink-stained brows and eyes. People would be attracted to him even if he just stared at them coldly.
‘A man like this is a weapon of ma** destruction for women!”
Lina Sweeney commented to herself. Had she not almost fallen for him back then? Fortunately, she caught hold of herself in time and did not let that attraction turn into action.
After all, she never considered getting into a long-distance relationship. She knew that he had grown up abroad. She had conservative parents and was an only child, so they would not allow her to marry abroad.
Besides, he was pa**ionate and clingy to her back then. She thought he was naturally hospitable because of the influence of growing up abroad.
However, looking at him now, he was not what she thought he was!
The most important thing was that he was so handsome that she could not help but to have a crush on him. It was just like when you would appreciate some idols with good looks, but you would never have plans to stay with them for a lifetime or even bear their children.
After all, you might not be up to their standards. Even if you were, you had to be someone outstanding to keep them around.
Although Lina Sweeney considered herself appearance-obsessed, she usually just looked and would not have any funny ideas.
“You’re… not just a fling.” Lina Sweeney licked her lips and could not help but defend herself. “Besides, I’m the one who was taken advantage of!”
“Is it?” He stood and approached the chair in which she was sitting on. He bent to stare at her with his dark eyes and said, “You slept with me all night, and then the next day you left without saying goodbye. You even told me you want to study at M University. It turns out there’s no one like you at M University. You’ve made a fool out of me with all your lies, and now you’re telling me you’re one who was taken advantage of?”
The thought of that night filled her with yet another pang of guilt. She had to blame it on her high spirits that day. She did not know how much she could drink and thought it would be all right. to drink more fruit wine. In the end, drinking too much indeed caused trouble.
She had woken up and started to recall what happened when she was drunk-her pinning him down on the bed, her forcing herself upon him, and all the sweet talk that escaped her lips.
Whilst recalling this, Lina Sweeney felt that they were so similar to those spoken by men to women on TV dramas! A few lines, in particular, were copied from the TV series she used to watch back then.
She could only come to the conclusion that it was not good to watch too many romantic dramas. When one was drunk, one would just spill sweet talk like it was free.
In the end….she had succeeded! She succeeded at having her way with a handsome man she could only appreciate and not disrespect!
Sometimes when Lina Sweeney recalled this, she wondered if her sweet talking worked.
He might have stayed abroad for too long and did not how to she happened to receive a phone call from Grace, so she hurriedly checked out of her room and went home.
She only took that time as a romantic encounter. She also thought she might never see him again.
She did not expect that they would meet again under such circumstances.
“I left a note,” Lina Sweeney said awkwardly. She had not exactly left without saying goodbye.
The irony in his eyes deepened with her words. “Yes, there was a note. It said, ‘I’m sorry. I have to leave.’ This was the only note you left for me, wasn’t it?”
Her shoulders could not help but shrink. All right, she knew it was her fault. “Then consider you’re the one who was taken advantage of. What do you want?”
He pulled a long face and stared at her. After a long while, he finally said, “Have you sought me out all these years?”
She bit her lip a little and did not reply, but the look on her face gave him the answer. She had not looked for him!
Suddenly, he chuckled, but his chuckle was a little cold. “Great, Lina Sweeney. Just great!”
She had not looked for him over the years, but he traversed almost every part of the road they used to travel together and even turned M
University upside down. He even went through the city’s surveillance. He searched wherever he could find her.
Lina Sweeney only felt that the chuckle made her heart feel like it was being pinched. There was a surge of discomfort.
Just then, Hadwin Stephenson’s phone rang suddenly.
Hadwin Stephenson answered the phone. After listening for a moment, his face changed slightly. Then, he looked at Linal
Sweeney with another touch of inquiry in his eyes.
“Bring them here,” Hadwin Stephenson said. He ended the call and put the phone away.
Lina Sweeney had a hunch that the phone call just now had something to do with her. “What is it?”
“Jason is here for you,” Hadwin Stephenson said, observing Lina Sweeney. “I didn’t expect Jason to come here for you. Why, do you know him well?”
“… No,” Lina Sweeney said, but she could guess why Jason came to her. It was probably because of Grace.
“If not, why did he come looking for you so late at night?” Hadwin Stephenson said coolly. “What woman in Emerald City can make. him do that? Or was it because of him that you didn’t come looking for me all these years?”
There was a faint hint of jealousy in his voice.
Lina Sweeney was speechless. Come on, if only she was up to Jason’s standards! Jason was after Grace, all right?