Andrea Jones bit her lip and didn’t say another word. Even with her head down, she could clearly feel the sudden chill in her breath.
…
The two of them just stepped out of the elevator and were about to walk towards the lobby. Only when they came out, they heard a familiar voice coming from them.
“Check again, make sure there’s no record of Neal Williams’ room?”
It’s Penny Brown.
Next to her stood Lewis Brown.
“Yes, Miss Brown, I can confirm that Young Master Jiang Er did not and did not rest with us last night.” The hotel reception gave a patient answer.
“Sis, I told you they can’t be together.” Lewis Brown patted Penny Brown’s shoulder, “Come on, let’s go back and get back in touch with my brother-in-law.”
Undeterred, Penny Brown asked again, “So, please check for me if there is a room record of a Andrea Jones.”
Andrea Jones was stunned for a moment.
Subconscious side glance to Neal Williams, only to see his face darkened, about to stride out.
“Don’t!” Andrea Jones was busy grabbing him by the arm, so she brought him back.
Andrea Jones reached out to help him, but was taken by him and fell into his arms.
“Don’t go out …” Andrea Jones looked at him pleadingly as she grabbed him by the sleeve.
This is a head-on encounter that will only embarrass her.
“Afraid Lewis Brown might get the wrong idea?” Neal Williams’ eyes locked on her with a sullen look.
She nodded and shook her head.
Not only is he worried that Lewis Brown misunderstood him, but also that Penny Brown misunderstood him.
She didn’t want to cause him unwarranted distress, let alone become a ‘third party’ in Penny Brown’s eyes.
“Is that how weak you feel with me?” Neal Williams felt this feeling, in particular, bad.
His brow furrowed as he stared at Andrea Jones without letting go.
“Not really.” Andrea Jones bit her lip and gave Neal Williams a look, “Miss Brown is your fiancée and she would have been pissed if she knew we … were having sex last night.”
“So …” Neal Williams didn’t know why he suddenly asked the next words, but, in this moment, he just blurted them out on instinct, “If Penny and I Brown broke off our engagement, would you be willing to stay with me?”
Once these words came out, Andrea Jones only felt a ‘buzz’ and a long blankness in her mind.
Looking back, I found him still staring doggedly at himself, his gaze burning.
Her heart tightened, she pulled her lips in embarrassment, but could not laugh.
“Let’s … take the stairs to the underground garage! We can avoid them.”
With that, she walked quickly toward the stairway, directly ignoring what he had just asked.
“Andrea Jones!” said Neal Williams, pushing open the heavy door of the security exit to follow him. A mellow voice echoed through the secluded hallway.
She was in a hurry to walk, but she couldn’t avoid him. Easily caught by his long arms.
A spin, her entire body was fixed to the wall.
“No running away!” The large palm directly clasped her lower jaw, forcing her to meet his eyes.
His breath, like a net of heaven and earth, enveloped her in a mass.
Andrea Jones found it hard to even breathe. Hands tightly gripping the skirt, a fine layer of sweat emerged on the palms of her hands.
Too late to think, only to find that his eyes burned more and more, shimmering light.
At the moment, it is bending its head inch by inch closer to itself.
They are getting closer and closer to each other, even the tips of their noses are about to touch each other’s.
His breath was laced with a seductive sensuality that made it difficult for her to hold herself.
This close distance, the absolute handsome features appear more and more three-dimensional exquisite. The string at the bottom of the heart, taut, as if, at any time will break.
He, to kiss himself?
…
Yes, he was eager to kiss her!
The desire to go crazy! From last night to now, or rather, for the past six years, he’s wanted to taste her again every moment of every day!
…
“No!” Just when his lips were less than a centimeter away from hers, she took a deep breath and, not knowing where the strength suddenly came from, pushed him away with force.
Huffing and shaking his head, he looked at him steadily, “You can’t do this to me! We can’t do this!”
Brows, clenched.
Rejected for the first time.
It was also the first time that I knew that being rejected was so bad.
It was so bad that it made him want to lose his temper!
“Even if you were to break off your engagement with Miss Brown, that would have nothing to do with me …”
She was a little alarmed.
It was clear that she and he were just a relationship between a superior and a subordinate, and I don’t know how it got to this point. How could she destroy someone’s relationship for no reason?
His eyes tightened, his thin lips pursed into a “one” word.
Very good!
Good one ‘not at all related’!
“Are you sure?” Eerily, three words were spat out.
“Yes … I’m sure of that, couldn’t be more sure! I do have a boyfriend, and, I love him very much!” These words, both to tell him and to tell themselves. “Lewis Brown and I, and maybe later on we will get married too. So … hope Mr. Williams will respect himself and not spoil our life with each other.”
Her words, the more she said, the heavier they became and the more determined she became. Like to convince herself and remind herself in such a way.
Neal Williams stared at her expressionlessly, his tall form, becoming rigid.
She just felt like her chest was being pressed like a boulder, sinking so hard that she couldn’t bear it.
“I’ll leave now, so … see you later.” Saying the last sentence, she hurriedly turned around and was about to leave.
“Andrea Jones!” Neal Williams spoke in a deep, unhurried voice behind her.
She didn’t stop, but he didn’t care, just pocketed his hands in his pockets and continued slyly: “Those words of mine just now were just a test, it’s best if you didn’t take them seriously.”
Testing? What do you mean?
Andrea Jones stops dead in her tracks.
His words, continued: “I expect my secretary not to have any illusions about me, and apparently, you passed the test!”
She looked back at him in surprise.
But his eyes did not stop on her again, just sunken steps sideways, expressionless and she brushed past, striding downstairs.
The back, stiff and cold. It was as if all his tenderness and warmth last night had come from her visions.
The tall figure, walking around the corner, disappears and is gone.
She stood there dumbfounded, only to feel a strong sense of loss, uncontrollable slowly climbing up from the heart.
Inch by inch, it gripped her heart.
…
From the underground garage to the road, Andrea Jones did not dare to stand on the side of the road to stop the car, only to be later folded out of Penny Brown and Lewis Brown caught a right, so back pain to keep walking.
It’s still cold on mornings like this.
She hugged herself tightly.
A familiar Hummer appeared on the road.
She stopped in her tracks and subconsciously looked sideways.
In the driver’s seat, it was the familiar man. However, at the moment, it was as if he didn’t see her at all, his eyes flatly staring ahead.
A step on the gas pedal, a roar, the car from her side of the flying past, without a moment’s pause.
Stunned watching the car into the traffic, Andrea Jones exhaled a long breath, but could not exhale the gloom accumulated in the heart.
…
Before passing the figure, Neal Williams’ eyes had fallen to the rearview mirror.
He locked his eyes on the lonely figure until she got into the taxi and the car drove to the viaduct.
Eyes, dark and heavy.
This is how far they are …
One up, one down …
There is no intersection point.
Perhaps, never.
By the time she arrived home, Andrea Jones felt like she was on the verge of collapse.
The headache is now splitting from the wind that blew all night.
Last night wrapped in his jacket, but also by his hug so tight, their own now still this kind of virtue, think, he is afraid that the situation is even worse.
Thinking about him, she shook her heavy head again, forcing herself to wave him out of her mind.
“Andrea Jones! What have you been doing all night?” As soon as the door opened, Sammy Jones’ questioning voice came crashing down on her. Clearly angry, she even called her by her first name.
“Sis!” She greeted tiredly and saw that her mother was also sitting on the sofa at this moment. Both of them had red bloodshot eyes, so it was obvious that they had stayed up all night last night.
She felt guilty as hell, “Mom, I’m sorry for keeping you guys up all night.”
“In the end what happened, good reason to go out to the company’s annual meeting, a whole night even a shadow is not. He didn’t even answer his phone!” Charleen Davis has been worried all night long, and only at this moment did she let up a little.
“Mom and I are dying of anxiety! You know, I went to your company’s annual meeting to look for you last night, but you weren’t there at all. Tell me honestly, where did you hang out all night?” A big stone fell to the ground, and Sammy Jones became more and more angry.
How can this damned girl be so disorderly?
“Sister, I really didn’t fool around, I also wanted to call you guys, but I was locked up on the roof of the hotel. The phone is still in the hotel and I didn’t have time to pick it up.”
“Locked up on the roof? What’s going on?” Charleen Davis asked busily.
Andrea Jones did not dare to say that he and Neal Williams were locked up on the roof of the building, only dare to vaguely say: “and a colleague went up to watch the fireworks, the result looked fascinated, the hotel to lock the door. The hotel locked the door. It blew all night. Now I have a headache!”
“Why are you still acting like a child, so careless?” Charleen Davis, though scolding, reached out and checked her forehead, “It’s okay, no fever yet. Go take a shower and come back later if you have anything to say.”
Sammy Jones looked at her, saw her face hard, and grabbed her hand again. The cold temperature made Sammy Jones frown.
The end is pity, how can still blame her? I just angrily snapped, “Hurry up and go inside! The next time this kind of thing does not come home all night, the phone still does not answer, I will give you a face!”
“Sis, you can forgive me, this was really an accident, there will never be another one.” Andrea Jones rushed to assure.
Sammy Jones, angry and helpless, nudged her, “Change out of this dress, it looks cold!”
“I’ll go in first, then.” Andrea Jones gave Charleen Davis another hug and leaned her head petulantly on her shoulder, “Mom, you should go to bed too. I’m sorry to make you worry like this at such an early age.”
“You guys, even older mothers still have to worry about this. You go take a bath, mom will give you a bowl of ginger soup, drink the soup and then sleep a little.”
“Don’t be busy, I’ll be fine.” Andrea Jones couldn’t bear the thought of her mother, who had been up all night, doing all this for her. But Charleen Davis didn’t care and went into the kitchen.
Watching her mother go in, Sammy Jones turned back and nudged Andrea Jones, “Andrea, go into the room, I want to talk to you.”
“What is it?” She was mysterious and stony, and Andrea Jones grew more and more curious.
When he entered the room, Sammy Jones immediately closed the door behind him.
Lowering her voice, she asked Andrea Jones, “You really weren’t with Lewis Brown last night?”
“… Well, no.” After a moment’s hesitation, Andrea Jones still nodded frankly.
If I tell my sister that she spent a night with a man who already has a fiancée and was so ambiguous last night, I’m afraid that even my sister would find it unacceptable, right?
“And do you know who Lewis Brown is with?” Sammy Jones’ focus wasn’t on her at all.
“I don’t know.” Andrea Jones shook her head, “But why ask that?”