Zoey expected the children to ask for this, “Uncle’s car can’t hold so many people, come on, good boy, come here.”
Jerry Xiao looked at her, “It’s okay, there are plenty of empty seats in the car.”
Zoey’s eyes, for the first time, looked at him. Then, another glance at the insistent children. Perhaps, because the shock of that happy image was still with her, she couldn’t help but take a step back and say, “Well then, let the children sit with you. I’ll sit here.”
She lowered her head, and explained to the children, “Be good, and if you’re tired, take a nap. Understand?”
The kids were depressed, “Zoey, you sit here too!”
“Zoey’s got a car, so I won’t squeeze in with you guys. Okay, you guys hurry up and get up there.” She coaxed the children. The children were reluctant to go, so Jerry Xiao patted their little backs and signaled them to go up. They then climbed into the car obediently.
Zoey turned around to get in the car in front of her, but Jerry Xiao took a step forward and grabbed her wrist with his big hand, pulling her back without a second thought.
His palm was so cold that it seemed to have no temperature, but when their skin touched each other without any obstacles, Zoey felt a surge of hot air, which burned into the tip of her heart. Like being touched by electricity, she subconsciously struggled. But he only held her tighter.
“Jerry Xiao!” she called his name in annoyance. So many coworkers are watching, what is she doing here? Jerry Xiao, however, as if he did not hear her words, pursed his lips and pulled open the door of the backseat, and without further ado, he shoved her into the car.
“Great, Zoey is sitting with us too!” The kids were screaming.
Where’s the good in that? She doesn’t think it’s good at all.
“Secretary Baker!” Feng greeted her from the driver’s seat. She all but responded haphazardly and turned back to confront Jerry Xiao.
“Let me out of the car! I’m not sitting here with you!” Zoey said to Jerry Xiao with a stern, hard face. Her hand reached out and grabbed the roof of the car insistently, not allowing him to close the door and get in. He stood there helplessly staring at her, bracing himself against the door.
The look in his eyes, a little lonely, like an abandoned child, there is a kind of indescribable heartache. Zoey only felt a tight heart, the heart is in turmoil. She forced herself not to look at him, poking out a foot on the ground, about to drill out.
“Well …,” her mind was so confused that she accidentally smashed her forehead on the roof of the car. She fell back into the car again in pain, her hand caressing her red forehead, her thin brows furrowing as she lifted her eyes to glare at him in exasperation.
Only to see that a few smiles actually surfaced in the bottom of his eyes, and even some favoritism. He raised his hand and made a gesture towards the front, bending over and smoothly sitting inside the car. Two children, plus their two adults, more or less a little crowded. Now that he sat in, his entire body was almost pressed against Zoey . She then, as if burned, subconsciously moved a bit in the direction of the children, keeping a safe distance from him.
This resisting movement was reflected in his eyes. His eyes darkened slightly, and he turned his face slightly to her.
“Let me see.” His voice was soft and gentle.
Zoey’s heartstrings fluttered and she gave him a nonchalant look, “What’s … to see …”
The last three words of the farce became lighter and lighter and lighter as he rubbed and stroked them for her, to the point where, in the end, he could barely even hear himself …
His fingertips were making circles on her forehead, the force was not too light and not too heavy, just right. As if there was a kind of magic, Zoey only felt that her forehead did not seem to hurt as much as it did just now. On the forehead, his temperature, from the skin penetration, rapid influx into her limbs and bones.
“Be more careful in the future, don’t always be so adventurous.” He sighed and bent his head to look at her. The look was like a vortex that sucked Zoey right in, making her sway for a long time, as if he was the only thing left in her eyes for a moment, along with the kids snickering and the car already moving without her even realizing it.
They were that close, and in their breath, the scent belonged to him. Crisp and minty …
Zoey used to think that everything about him, she’d forgotten, cleanly. But until this moment, she realized that it wasn’t! Everything, she remembered clearly, but it was buried in the bottom of her heart, and as soon as she opened that floodgate, everything came out in a fishbowl.
The phone suddenly rang in such an atmosphere. Zoey was suddenly startled, realizing that she had actually lost her concentration under his eyes, and immediately turned red with chagrin. She pushed his hand away somewhat angrily, and hurriedly looked down to find her own cell phone. Zoey was so annoyed with him, that she was unable to find her cell phone.
Looking at her eyelashes that were fluttering extremely fast, and the small face that was flushed, Jerry Xiao suddenly felt in a good mood. Obediently withdrawing his hand, he smiled, dropping his eyes to the window.
“What are you laughing at?” Zoey felt her face heat up even more, only thinking he was amused that she had just lost her mind because of him.
“Answer the phone first.” He compared his hand to the cell phone in her hand. The smile was deep, and the early morning sunlight cast in through the window, gilding the smiling, handsome face with a golden aura.
Zoey doesn’t dare look at it again for fear she’ll lose her concentration again. Busy answering the phone, he heard Jingles’ voice coming from over there.
“Smoke, you swindled me again and said you’d introduce him to me. You guys are clearly a couple.” Jing Si’s voice over there, especially loud.
This side of the carriage, again, was particularly quiet. So much so, that everyone listened. Even without a sideways glance, Zoey could feel his searching eyes looking toward her, sharp as thorns.
Zoey wanted to tell Jing Si to settle down and not yell so loudly, but thought of something and said as if nothing had happened, “No, how could we possibly be a couple? Don’t worry, if I said I would introduce you, I will definitely introduce you.”
“You didn’t swindle me?” Jing Si didn’t believe it for a second.
“No.” Zoey looked ahead at the motorcade, deliberately ignoring the look from Jerry Xiao beside her as she said tersely, “Why don’t you and I switch cars? You sit here with me.”
Side.
Jerry Xiao’s face was taut, and his fingers, resting on the car window, were stiff and almost white.
This woman, actually wants to introduce him to other women? Moreover, there was no intention at all to take his wishes into account.
Heh … She can be so passionate, so passionate that he wants to go crazy! Wanted to tie her up and teach her a hard lesson!
“No, no, no! Never. We’ve only met once or twice, and I’m just going to sit there, and won’t that be awkward? I’m going to have a headache when it comes time to talk about anything.” Jing Si hurriedly refused Zoey’s offer.
Zoey noticed that the air around her suddenly dropped several degrees. He didn’t flirt with Jing Si anymore, and hung up the phone after chatting with her casually.
…
As soon as the phone was disconnected, several adults were tacitly silent. Ah Feng straight wipe cold sweat, Jerry Xiao’s face is also still as ugly as ever.
Nini and KK on the other hand are completely out of shape.
“Zoey , who are you going to introduce to Auntie Jingles?” KK asked.
Nini also asked, “Is it an uncle?”
Zoey secretly glanced up at Jerry Xiao, not realizing that he was looking right at her.
The eyes of the two people happened to collide in the air. She subconsciously winced and nudged the two children, “Be a good girl and sit still, you won’t know what’s going on with the grown-ups even if you talk about it.”
The two kids snapped and withdrew their voices, wriggling to the side. Zoey was just about to breathe a sigh of relief at having dismissed them when she heard a cool voice from one side of her ear, “Planning on being a red herring?”
His voice, without a hint of rise or fall, or any emotion, which made Zoey smell danger. Instead, he nodded and spoke the truth, “You should have seen Jingles.”
“So?”
“She … seems to like you quite a bit.”
“Yeah? You’ve seen her twice and you can use the word ‘like’?” His tone, growing sharper by the second, forced her eyes to sharpen.
She was that desperate to get rid of him? To actually introduce herself to her coworkers!
“Okay, count me out for using the wrong words.” Zoey looked at him with her neck pinched and an expression of resignation, “She’s got a crush on you.”
“So, what should I do? Accept her?”
It was Zoey who froze for a moment. Accepting Jing Si? She hadn’t even thought about it. Besides, accepting without even knowing her, wouldn’t he be a little too casual.
“I mean, just introducing you guys to each other. What happens after that …” she paused, “that’s your business, not mine.”
It has nothing to do with her! Very well! Thanks to her, she was able to make it sound so smooth, so unthinking.
His face darkened and his tone was cold and hard, “Understood, then please introduce us. I will be good, good, show, present.” . Those last four words, he almost said them through clenched teeth.
This time, it was Zoey who froze. He … actually agreed? She thought that with his character, he must be furious and would definitely refuse without hesitation, but …
Now, he actually agreed without hesitation. What’s more, there was even a look of anticipation.
Wasn’t this just what she wanted, to bring him and Jing Si together? However, why was she not happy at all. She wanted to say something else in response to his sentence of ‘perform well’, but after opening her lips, she just couldn’t utter half a word. It was as if something was blocking her throat, and it was uncomfortable to be astringent.
Eventually …
In the carriage, an awkward condensation fell.
As if he didn’t take her out of sorts behavior in stride, he coldly averted his face from the window and watched the desert flash by along the way. Afon naturally played dead in front of him. The two children were obviously not fit to get up too early, and both of them fell asleep with their necks crooked.
Zoey didn’t want to delve into her feelings at the moment, and it hurt a little to see the children sleeping with their necks crooked in a grueling manner. She subconsciously moved Nini, who was sitting beside her, over and leaned on her shoulder. When she was not sure how to help KK, she only felt the tall figure on the other side, suddenly leaning towards her.
His face came closer and closer.
The breath almost hit her in the face.
The hand, too, probed toward himself.
“What … do you want?” She stared at him nervously, her eyelashes fluttering and her heart beating even more violently. This man, he wouldn’t want to kiss her again like he did twice before, would he? This was the car!
“What are you nervous about?” He was still cold, obviously still angry about the fact that she was going to be a bride for him just now. The hand reached out, but it went right through her, through Nini, and landed on KK.
With only a little force, he picked up KK’s entire body carefully.
Zoey blushed in embarrassment. She cursed her own nerves and wanted to find a hole for herself to crawl into.