Chapter 52: Because I Like You

Book:Love Like Arsenic Published:2024-5-1

I kept avoiding him, and this made his face look even grimmer. Annoyed, he immediately pulled me towards him.
His other hand was put around my waist such that I couldn’t dodge, and I closed my eyes in fear thinking that he was going to do something bad to me again.
However, he suddenly lightened up and brushed away the hair beside my lips.
Then, he leaned beside me ear again, smiling as he said, “Don’t be scared, let’s have dinner together.”
He had deliberately lowered his voice, and it sounded very deluding.
But I shuddered the moment I thought of his unpredictable mood, so I politely refused, afraid of being alone with him.
“You don’t have a choice!” He burst into anger as soon as I finished talking, and his usually bright eyes were suddenly lit with rage.
Just when I was shocked by his sudden change again, he had already dragged me off the bed and took me straight to the dining table.
“Eat!” he yelled when he noticed that I hadn’t even touched the chopsticks.
I was so scared that I couldn’t hold the chopsticks properly. I looked at Quan Jinnian’s twisted face and bloodshot eyes in disbelief, feeling extremely terrified.
Why did he become like this?
He had outdone Quan Shaoze’s viciousness!
To a certain extent, he was even more perverted than Quan Shaoze!
I pretended to take a casual glance at the surroundings-there were bodyguards at every door, so I knew that I had no chance of escaping.
At that moment, I could only try my best to control my hands that were trembling out of fear, and start eating as if nothing had happened.
I also silently tried to digest the fact that Quan Jinnian was still alive and had become so perverted.
After dinner, I had more or less calmed myself down, so I pretended to be composed and came to Quan Jinnian who still had a grim expression on his face.
I asked him to let me go, but he refused flatly.
I tried to stay cool and continued to ask him why he wanted to hold me in captivity. After all, I was pregnant and I didn’t think I would be able to escape if he abused me like Xiao Yue.
Quan Jinnian suddenly laughed when he heard me ask him why. For that moment, he seemed to have become the sunshine boy he had used to be.
With the experience of his previous behavior, I felt a chill down my spine and had goosebumps all over when I saw him approaching me with a smile.
I pretended to be calm as I moved backwards, trying to keep a distance from him.
“You want to know?” He pulled me into his arms nonetheless, holding my waist with one hand and pinching my chin with the other, and the smile on his face was especially warm.
But my scalp became numb looking at him, yet I had to pretend that I was okay and forced a smile, “It’s okay, it doesn’t matter whether you want to tell me or not, just let me leave …”
Before I could finish talking, he interrupted me with a laugh.
“But I want to tell you.” He lifted my chin and said with a smile, and his hand was caressing my face.
Due to the close proximity, I could see the hidden darkness in his eyes behind his smiling face. I panicked at once, and every cell in my body seemed to be screaming at me to escape.
My instinct told me that this was no longer the same Quan Jinnian.
He was now an extremely dangerous man!
My whole body shivered uncontrollably at this thought.
But Quan Jinnian simply touched my lips gently with his finger and leaned his forehead against mine before saying softly with a smile, “Because, I like you.”