The soothing voice, low and gentle, like magic, swept away a lot of uneasiness in her heart at once.
The slender ten fingers curled up and firmly grasped his fingers. Like a cry for help, but also like dependence.
Neal Williams patted her back one by one, “It’s okay, don’t be afraid …”
Fingers strayed to her already treated wound, and withdrew for fear of hurting her.
A constant source of warmth slowly opened Andrea Jones’ eyes.
Fanning her eyelashes, she looked at the man at her heels.
For a moment, it wasn’t clear.
“Awake?”
What a familiar voice.
The familiarity of it made her heart tremble.
Settle down, the man’s worried handsome cheeks clearly appear in his own eyes.
A moment of consternation, and then …
She practically bounced out of his arms and turned her body around, about to get up from the bed.
Quick as a flash, Neal Williams reached out and pinned her whole body down.
“What are you doing there?”
“Go away!” Andrea Jones yelled, clenching her fists and pounding him emotionally out of control.
Neal Williams didn’t stop either, just let her run amok. With her legs pressed against hers, she was pinned to the bed, “Andrea Jones, calm down!”
“I’m cool! I don’t want to see you …”
The previous memory, which is now completely back, she cried out in embarrassment and pain.
If she doesn’t know how to avoid suspicion, then she deserves it!
Neal Williams frowned before he held her down with both hands, clasping them above her head. Deep eyes, locked firmly on her from top to bottom, “Tell me what’s going on!”
If he didn’t ask, Andrea Jones became more and more upset.
Neal Williams dripped down the corners of his eyes, wetting his pillow.
“Let go of me, don’t get so close to me!”
“I can’t let go of you!” Neal Williams bellowed, gripping her wrist even tighter.
She shook her head haphazardly and said stubbornly, “I don’t want to be the third party, let alone ruin your relationship with Penny Brown!”
Sure enough …
Eyes sinking, Neal Williams clasped her lower jaw and stared at her solemnly, “Andrea Jones, you were never a third party!”
Andrea Jones shook her head, and her teary eyes had determination, “Please stop pestering. We’re just a boss and subordinate relationship! The charge of ‘third party’ … I can’t afford …”
Her determination and stubbornness, both like a knife, hurt exceptionally.
To him … she is not really even a little bit moved?
Breathing heavier, eyes darkening, Neal Williams cupped her lower jaw and brought her teary eyes to his.
“You know what? This desperation of yours makes me really want to just have you!”
Andrea Jones was so shocked by him that she even stopped crying.
The fingers trembled and clenched together.
He sneered, his fingers straying to her lips. Her breath tightened and she tried to look away, but her grip was so firm that she couldn’t move.
The Next Moment …
He suddenly bent his head down and took her lips with his head down.
She stopped breathing.
In the chest, a heart, as if to leap out of the mouth.
She tried to struggle, but, in the next second, found …
He wasn’t kissing himself at all. Instead, he bit her lower lip with a bite of indignation.
Down the mouth, some heavy.
Andrea Jones grunted in pain, her eyebrows furrowed.
But he is like to vent something, hesitate to let go of the mouth, the tighter the bite.
“Well … it hurts!” She struggled, pushing back.
After all, Neal Williams let go, but still held her still and looked at her with a sullen expression, “Just stay here and don’t make a fuss!”
The lips that he had bitten burned and hurt vaguely. Her tearful eyes also looked at him.
The tip of my nose is sore, and the words that come out are, “What do you really want? I’ve made it very clear to you …”
Right now, she just wants to stay far away from all this right and wrong! The farther away the better!
Neal Williams’ eyes darkened, “Even if you make it clear, it doesn’t necessarily mean I have to listen!”
He reached out with his long arms and picked her up again in a horizontal embrace.
The heart of a startled, Andrea Jones instinctively grabbed the collar of his robe, and stared at him warily.
This man, what does he want?
Instead, he just helped her adjust her position and tucked her back under the covers without saying a word.
“I’ve heard what happened today.” Sitting on the edge of the bed, he spoke.
Andrea Jones looked away, embarrassed and in tears.
He frowned, not liking to see her like this, his hand reached over and broke her little face over to meet his eyes again, “Why don’t you explain to them?”
“How do you explain it?” She gripped the sheets, her eyelashes slightly drooping, “Do you think … our current relationship is normal?”
“At least, you’re not a third party.”
“…” After a moment of silence, she bit her lip, and half a moment later, she spoke again, “If … you can stop pestering like this, I won’t be misunderstood and don’t have to do any explaining …”
Voice, slightly dull. The position of the chest, vaguely painful.
No voice answered her.
There was only endless silence and a sudden chill in the room temperature.
Taking a deep breath and closing her eyes, as if she had made up her mind, she continued to speak, “I … have written the transfer order and I would like to … apply to go back to Mr. Miller.”
This woman!
Just want to get away from him so badly!
Neal Williams stood up and looked at her with condescending, cold eyes, “What if I don’t say yes? To resign?”
“…” This time, it was Andrea Jones’ turn not to say anything.
The financial circle is complex and sensitive. If one’s profile has had such a brief experience in the field, I’m afraid it will be difficult if one still wants to enter other companies in the future.
She didn’t want to gamble with him on her career.
But how should one convince him?
As she thought this, the next moment, Neal Williams’ words took her by surprise.
“Go back and give me your application, I promise you!”
She looked up at him in surprise.
The lines of his three-dimensional face were taut, and his thin lips twitched as he spoke, “Only if you stay here tonight and don’t go back to that villa! In the morning, I will drive you away.”
“But …” he drove himself instead of Penny Brown? How could she explain to Penny Brown and Lewis Brown?
“No buts!” He cut off her words in a domineering manner, “If you say one more word, the words you just said are null and void!”
Andrea Jones bit her lip at that moment, not daring to speak again.
After squeezing the covers and confronting Neal Williams for a minute, she couldn’t resist speaking, “I need to make a phone call.”
“Call Lewis Brown?”
“… hmm.”
“It’s not necessary. He’s already asleep and hasn’t cared about you at all.” With that said, Neal Williams looked at her again, “Andrea Jones, have you ever figured out if Lewis Brown likes you or not?”
His words made Andrea Jones feel strange. Jaws of suspicion waiting for him to continue to say, but he closed his lips, did not say more.
Tonight, she was tired and he didn’t want to add another cut to her.
After waiting for a long time and not waiting for his words, she did not ask more questions, but just looked at him and reminded, “You … go back, so that Penny Brown will not misunderstand again.”
She couldn’t wait to get rid of herself!
This realization annoyed Neal Williams a little. With a heavy look at her, he reached out and turned off the lights in the room, and without a word, he closed the door and sank out.
Backbone, stiff and cold.
…
In the darkness, Andrea Jones still stared in the direction of the doorway. The sound of his footsteps, which were getting farther and farther away, finally disappeared until they could no longer be heard. At that moment, I only felt that my heart was inexplicably emptied of the feeling, empty, very difficult.
She whirled around and curled herself into a ball.
I’m really tired today, but …
At this moment, she is not at all sleepy.
The hand, touching his own lips. The mind can’t help but be flooded with images of him biting himself, his heart fluttering for a moment.
What is going on?
Why is it that the life that is clearly peaceful and calm is in but a little derailed? And … she seems, powerless to control …
Penny Brown sat frozen in the hall, waiting for Neal Williams to return. Where had he gone? Why hadn’t he come back for so long?
Just as she was distracted, the doorbell rang at first.
It must be him coming back!
She breathed a sigh of relief and immediately ran to open the door.
When he saw the figure at the door, a smile finally appeared on his nervous face.
“Thought you were going to leave without us first.” Penny Brown took his arm and quietly glanced at his taut face, thinking he was still angry about what had just happened, and softened her apology, “I’m sorry, Neal, I shouldn’t have gotten angry with you just now …”
“Come on, Penny Brown!” Neal Williams interrupted her coldly and stiffly, not only not appreciating her, but coldly jerking her hand away and speaking warningly: “You better stay here right now and don’t talk to me for a while! ”
He was afraid he’d lose all his poise and couldn’t resist returning all the injuries that fragile little thing had sustained to Penny Brown!
Penny Brown did not expect such an attitude from him, her lips fluttered and she stared at him for a long time before asking, “… What’s going on?”
Neal Williams, however, just gave her a sullen stare, didn’t answer, turned around and headed upstairs to his bedroom. By the time Penny Brown looked back, she only saw that he was carrying his luggage down the stairs.
Without a single glance at her, he turned back to their bedroom with a blank face.
“Neal! What are you doing? Why are you only taking Andrea and your luggage?” Penny Brown’s heart shuddered as she rushed up and clasped Neal Williams’ hand, “I forbid you to go!”
Neal Williams’ eyes, from her hands, slowly swept down to her pale face. The eyes were cold, like a layer of ice caught in them, making her shudder.
“Let go!”
Only two simple words, but as stiff as stone, popped out from between the lips.
Even the corners of the lips, are cold.
“I won’t let go! What the hell is going on? Why are you doing this to me?” Penny Brown’s face was pale and her pretty eyes had misted over.
He never does this to himself.
Such a feeling makes her panic, uneasy, like there’s something she can’t hold on to …
Neal Williams’ eyes sank, and with one word, “Penny Brown, we’re done. Some other time, I will give both families an explanation.”
Her jaw dropped.
It should have been a surprise, but then again, it felt like it was bound to happen sooner or later.
On the day of the annual meeting, one already thought of it, didn’t one?
“Is it … because of Andrea Jones?” she asked, her eyes red.
“Nothing to do with her.” Neal Williams replied, his tone flat, his demeanor cold. So desperate that there was no trace of regret.
“Nothing to do with her? You’re lying!” She screamed loudly and excitedly, tears falling from her eyes, but questioned hatefully, “Neal Williams, you’re in love with her, aren’t you?”
Without nodding, but without denying it either, Neal Williams just looked at her steadily and whispered a warning, “Don’t hurt her again! She never meant to come between me and you.”
Penny Brown froze there, only to feel a chill slowly surging upward from the bottom of her feet, tearing her heart inch by inch.
She never wanted to get involved, but … easily shattered her dreams of marriage …
How can she be willing to do this? How can she not hate it?
…
The whole villa, it was too quiet. So quiet that it made her panic.
After all, it is still impossible to sleep.
In my head, I tossed around some questions that I shouldn’t have. Such as, by now Neal Williams is not asleep? Or … he might still be making out with Penny Brown. He would have kissed Penny Brown as intimately and lingeringly as he kissed himself that day …