It was respect and also a sense of responsibility.
Also to put himself into Florence’s shoes.
He considered all these from the very beginning, Clarence’s considerations put Victoria at ease.
It may seem like casual chatting, but it was full of scrutiny and judgments, but Victoria was quite happy with the outcome.
He left a quite good impression in Victoria’s heart. With good manners, clean background and responsible, she could let Florence befriend him without worries.
Convenience and space were two things that a parent could provide to the children.
As long as it was with a proper man, Victoria did not care about status and would not object. But if it was a cunning man like Ernest, she would intervene and oppose.
Although she left out of anger, Florence still worried about Ernest. She intentionally left the door open in her room, sitting there and looked at the door occasionally.
Florence was excited when she heard someone walking into the living hall, she walked out of the room quickly.
She let out a sigh of relief when she saw it was Ernest.
And she asked, “How was it? Did mom troubled you? Did she discover anything?”
“You seems to worry so much about me, why don’t you give me a hug to see if I’m still in one piece?”
Ernest joked, the way he looked at her was full of love and passion.
Florence punched his chest lightly. “Be serious.”
“Let’s do something serious then.”
Ernest grabbed on Florence’s wrists with one hand and wrapped her around the waist with another hand, gave her a light pull and pressed her against the wall.
He looked at her passionately.
Florence’s heart was racing, her breath was rapid and she was nervous.
“Hey, what are you doing?”
Ernest moved his lips and blew onto Florence’s face.
It was seductive and irresistible.
He stared at her with desire.
His lips approaching hers slowly.
Their breaths mixed up, the warm and burning sensation almost melted Florence’s heart.
Her body stiffened, she was confused but couldn’t resist.
She tried avoiding his sights and finally closed her eyes and wait for the approaching lips.
But Ernest’s lips were not pressed against her after a while, instead, his voice was heard right next to her ear. “Florence, you should deliver your promise made this morning.”
Florence was shocked. She opened her eyes and wanted so much to disappear right away.
He… How could he…
“I… I’m tired, time to bed, good night.”
She pushed the man in front of him clumsily after her lines, she wanted to escape.
However, Ernest seemed to know her intention and grabbed onto her hand and pulled her back to him again.
They exchanged position and Florence fell into his arms habitually and pushed him against the wall.
While her body leaned on his.
Florence’s face was as red as an apple.
Ernest stared at her and said with a seductive voice, “It’s okay if you don’t want to do it, we can go directly to the main course.”
“No, no.”
Florence rejected quickly, she didn’t know what to do.
He was now living in her place and there were so many pairs of eyes around, if they sleep on the same bed, it would easily be discovered by others.
They had to keep a distance anyhow.
Ernest looked a little disappointed and complain, “You promised…”
Florence wanted to bit off her tongued now, she made the promise out of the circumstance. She never would have thought that Ernest took it seriously.
Florence defended, “I…”
“Florence, are you breaking your promise?”
Ernest interrupted her softly, he tried to control but still looked disappointed. “Let’s forget about it if you are not willing.”
He released her while saying that and lean against the wall looking sad.
Florence heart’s ache seeing his face, she felt extremely guilty.
Since they knew each other, Ernest had never broken her trust. This was the first promise she made but she was breaking it…
A sudden felt of guilt surrounded her. She felt she had wronged him and so, without hesitation, she said, “Yes, I will do it!”
Ernest’s eyes shined, but he still looked disappointed with pouted lips.
“You don’t have to force yourself.”
“I’m not forcing myself, I do it willingly.”
Florence’s heart softened, she wanted to show him her sincerity and grabbed on his belt at once.
“Snap”
The sound of belt snapping could be heard in the quiet living hall.
Ernest’s sights became darker.
He took Florence’s hand and said, “In the room.” And moved towards the room with her.
A man spoke from the door amid all the actions.
“Clarence, how did you practice your shooting, let’s chat…”
Stanford Fraser walked in, but his speech was cut off with the scene before him.
God knew what he saw.
The two of them leaned against the wall with the woman on top? It looked like Florence threw herself onto him and tried to take off his belt forcefully…
“I didn’t see anything!”
Stanford buried his face in his palm and turned around at once.
He couldn’t believe that his sister was that fierce and forceful.
And he walked in on them!
Florence’s body stiffened and turned her head in shock, she saw Stanford’s back.
Her face became as red as blood, and she felt like her face was burning.
Someone walked into her doing stuff like that and it was none other than her brother.
How could she ever face others?!
“I, I will go to bed.”
She stammered out the line and rushed back into her room at lightning speed and slammed the door behind. Everything happened within seconds.
Ernest’s dark and loving eyes fell onto the closed door, with a little disappointment.
It seemed like he missed his meal again tonight…