Filed to story: My Gorgeous Wife is an Ex-Convict Novel by Anastasia Marie
Lina Sweeney unconsciously took a step back, trying to keep her distance.
Hadwin Stephenson’s eyes narrowed for a moment. Her retreat was only an eyesore to him.
“Don’t you want your phone?” he said.
She looked at him carefully and licked her somewhat dry lips. “Are you going to give it back?”
“Get in.” His thin lips spat out these two words.
A hint of struggle suddenly appeared on Lina Sweeney’s face. Her phone was precious, but the price of her freedom was higher! She did not want to be locked up in his room for hours as she had been yesterday.
If Grace had not come with Jason to take her away yesterday, she did not know when she would be able to leave.
“It’s all right. I was just thinking about changing my phone. I don’t need that old phone anymore,” Lina Sweeney said timidly.
“You don’t need all those photos and all those internet accounts on your phone anymore? By the way, I think there’s also some of your company’s internal information on it,” Hadwin Stephenson. said lightly. “If you don’t want it, so be it.”
This was… a threat!
Lina Sweeney gritted her teeth, but the problem was her phone was pa**word protected. Did… Did he unlock her phone and saw the photos and information on it?
Then, her various social media accounts… Could he have decrypted them?
“How could you?!” she said angrily.
“Do you want to get in or not?” he asked without answering.
She felt like something was stuck in her throat. She could not swallow nor spit it out. She found him to be a sweet cutie when she first met him. How did he turn out like this after years of not seeing each other?
However, Lina Sweeney could only hang her head low as she opened the door of the pa**enger seat and sat down beside
Hadwin Stephenson.
When she got into the car, she saw Hadwin Stephenson playing with her phone.
“My phone!” she exclaimed, subconsciously trying to get her phone back.
However, before her hand could touch the phone, he grabbed her by the hand. “You seem to have had a good life these years,” he said thoughtfully. With his other hand, he tapped on the photo album on her phone, which showed all kinds of photos of her smiling. Some of them were travel photos, while some of them were everyday photos. Others were photos of her eating delicious. food outside. Looking at the photos as they were, her life seemed pretty well off.
However, the problem was everyone would take photos of their happy times. Who would take photos when they were sad?
“Not too bad I guess…” Lina Sweeney answered timidly.
She twisted her wrist, trying to pull it out from his fingers.
It felt strange to be held in his hand like that. It was as if all his warmth was pa**ing through his fingers to her.
Back then, she had gone crazy for his pretty fingers. She even had the cheek to tell him, “You’ve got pretty fingers, let me feel them.”
What happened after that? He seemed to have given her his hand and let her touch wherever she wanted.
As someone with a ‘hand fetish’, the feeling of his hand… Uh, it was nice!
Wait, what was she thinking?
Lina Sweeney suddenly came to her senses and wanted to slap herself. Look at what she got herself into, yet she was still busy thinking of fingers and whatnots!
As she looked up, she once again looked into Hadwin
Stephenson’s beautiful black eyes.
However, his eyes, which were looking at her, seemed to be clouded with feelings she could not understand.
The next moment, he let go of her hand. Lina Sweeney’s hand was finally free.
“How are you going to get me to return your phone?” Hadwin Stephenson asked coldly.
Lina Sweeney blinked. What the… Was he not giving her phone back?
“Should I give you some money?” Lina Sweeney felt stupid when she said this. With his current status, would he care about money?
Sure enough, he smirked and looked at her as if she was an idiot.
“Then what do you want?” she asked, taking a deep breath. If she did not risk anything, she would risk everything. She guessed. he was using the phone to vent his anger on her from more than three years ago.
She would just let him blow off some steam.
“Have you been in a relationship these three years?” he asked.
She shook her head, wondering why he would ask this.
“Then have you ever liked anyone?” he asked again.
There were many. If she counted those celebrities she liked with her fingers, her ten fingers would not be enough.
However, facing his expressionless face, she shook her head almost instinctively.
She almost choked on her saliva. It was something she said when she was young and foolish! According to Grace, he was now the President of Stephenson Group. The person in charge of the Stephenson family was not someone she could go after.
“Hehe, you’re too kind. I’ll be happy with an average boyfriend. I’m not that demanding.” She smiled awkwardly, not knowing what she was blabbering on about.
He glanced at her and said nothing. He kept his head down as he continued to play with her phone and check her web browsing history.
Lina Sweeney trembled with fear! She had browsed for some gay fiction last week. She could not let him see that!
However, her hope was quickly shattered when he scrolled through her browsing history from the week before.
As he clicked on the link to the gay fiction, Lina Sweeney immediately screamed, “Wait!”
“Huh?” He raised his eyebrows and looked at her.
“This phone is my privacy. You can’t… mess around like this,” she said.
“Privacy?” He glanced at her. “Why don’t you tell me how much of my privacy you invaded back then?”
She choked and blushed. All right, she was to blame.
“You didn’t, but you seem to have forgotten what you said. That night, you told me that I was the only one you liked and that you would never like any other man than me. You also said that I was handsome and obedient and that I was the perfect boyfriend for you…”
She blushed a little more with each retelling of the sweet talk she had uttered when she was drunk that night.
Fine, she was really a jerk!
Lina Sweeney no longer defended herself and hung her head low. After all, she did utter those words.
“You also said that you’ll love me until the end of time. Have your forgotten that too? The funniest joke in the world probably came out of your mouth that night!” He said as his face came close to hers.
Lina Sweeney’s red face turned pale. Her lips trembled, and all she could say was “I’m sorry.”
After all, she was the one who said those words, and she was the one who failed to do as she promised.
“You screwed me up,” he said.
There was once again silence in the car. She did not know how long it took until the car finally stopped. Lina Sweeney followed Hadwin Stephenson out of the car only to find that it was the same mansion he had brought her to yesterday.
Lina Sweeney could not help stopping in her tracks at the thought of her being locked up inside last night.
“Why, are you afraid to go in?” Hadwin Stephenson turned his head to look at Lina Sweeney.
She tugged at the corners of her mouth, trying to force out a smile. “We can just talk outside. It’s all the same.”