The four of them talked about the information for a few more hours. After they left the clubhouse, James sent Silence back to the army.
“Silence, will you be engaged according to your family’s arrangements?”
James asked him all of a sudden.
Silence disdained to listen to his family and marry a woman he barely knew.
If he was that obedient, he wouldn’t have waited for Arya for sixteen years.
After waiting for sixteen years, was he afraid of waiting a few more years? Of course not.
“What do you think?” he asked.
“You’re my best friend. I will get you a nice gift for your engagement.” James sneered.
Silence didn’t reply.
Silence knew that James was joking. And he also knew that James would vent to others when he felt bad.
When James returned to the villa, it was already late at night. He went upstairs to the bedroom and saw that the woman on the bed was already asleep.
He walked quietly and squatted down beside the bed. Looking at her eyes, he knew that she must be crying.
The words he said before were quite ruthless. He wanted to beat himself up after he finished speaking. It was stupid to use this method to hurt her.
But he had to do so.
How could he bear to watch her take the risk?
He gently touched the tip of her eyebrows, hoping that she would recover well. He would find her wherever she went after that.
When Kara woke up the next day, it was still early.
But when she turned around, she did not see James. She sighed and quickly got up.
She didn’t know if he had returned last night, but there were very few situations where he didn’t return to his home at night.
After changing into her sportswear, she went upstairs to do some exercise in a depressed mood. As soon as she entered the gym, she saw the man doing push-ups. Her eyes flashed with light. She smiled and quickened her pace and walked up to him, squatting down to look at him.
“James.” She softly called his name.
James looked up at her and did not speak. He continued to do the push-ups.
Kara saw that the muscles of his arms bulged, and were full of strength.
Beads of sweat streaked across his neck from his forehead and landed on his cotton shirt as he did the push-ups.
When this man did sports, no matter from which angle, it was a beautiful scene.
She even had an urge to get the drawing board and draw him like this. It was too alluring.
James got up and saw her staring at him, full of desire. He blinked and he wiped the sweat off his face with a towel.
“Why are you looking at me? I can’t help you do exercises.”
When Kara heard that there was no anger in his tone, she smiled and moved to his side, “James, help me today.”
James glanced at her and turned to the arms training machine. He did it twice, then walked to the side and pointed at her.
That meant he did a demonstration, and she should follow it.
However, Kara shook her head and smiled brightly. “James, give me a kiss and I’ll go over.”
James didn’t say a word.
He glanced at her and turned to leave.
Kara quickly hugged him and jumped up to kiss him on the cheek, explaining somewhat nervously.
“Don’t be angry. If you don’t kiss me, I can kiss you. You have to watch me. What if my movements are not standard and I do it wrong?”
James gritted his teeth. Kara knew that he would not be able to refuse when she acted cutely.
Last night, he had thought of all kinds of methods to keep a distance from her, but he was stifled by her kiss, and his heart was stuffy.
He turned around, grabbed the back of her head, and kissed her pink lips.
As if he was addicted, he kissed her so many times but still felt unsatisfied. He picked her up with his long arms and placed her on the machine. He constantly wanted her to get closer.
Kara hugged his neck in surprise and responded to him in an unfamiliar manner. She wrapped his waist with her legs.
Smelling the sweet scent of Kara, James couldn’t resist anymore, not to mention that it was she that took the initiative. They were so turned on by the kisses as if they were burned by desire.
But in the end, he bit the tip of his tongue to let himself regain his senses.
“Kara, why are you taking the initiative so early in the morning? Did you do something wrong?”
Kara was gasping. Her cheeks were crimson, and her fair neck was suffused with a thin layer of pink, revealing a seductive charm.
She blinked her big eyes innocently and shook her head. “I didn’t do anything wrong. I just missed you.”
James went silent.
He had forgotten that she had always been straightforward in front of him. And she listened to him and only thought of the good things.
James pressed against the bottom of his teeth with his tongue, and he secretly took a deep breath. He took a few steps back and let her go.
Feeling so vulnerable in his hug, Kara fell the moment he loosened his arms.
James subconsciously hugged her again. He frowned and his eyes were sharp.
“Stand straight!”
Kara tiptoed, shook her head, and acted cutely. There was a hint of threat in her tone.
“If you help me work out, I will stand properly.”
James went speechless.
He clenched his fists and stopped arguing with her. He loosened his arms and retreated.
Kara did not expect that he would let go, so she fell to the ground. She frowned because of the pain.
“James, you should tell me before you let go.”
Her emotions surged up, and tears filled her eyes. The tears dropped as she wept.
When James saw that she was starting to throw a tantrum and cry, he endured it in his heart.
He stood coldly in front of her, looking down on her from above.
“Little fool, you said you wanted to learn to be independent. Is this what you want?”
Kara sobbed, wiping her tears, and she looked up at him.
“I’m trying my best to be independent, but don’t push me away. Can’t you stay by my side?”
“No!”
James said those words through gritted teeth and turned to leave the gym.
Kara felt that she was not very independent to cry, but ever since Corey said those words, he became strange and kept trying to keep a distance from her.
She felt uncomfortable and didn’t care about being independent.
She wiped her tears and worked out for an hour. She was covered in sweat and went back to her room to take a shower.
When she changed her clothes and went downstairs to eat breakfast, she saw that there was no one at the table. The feeling of being deliberately pushed away by the person she liked was really bad.
It was Mason who drove Kara to the studio. Kara was not in a good mood. After class, she went back to her studio to paint.
For the next few days, James’s attitude towards her was so cold that she felt terrible.
Every day, she would wake up early to exercise. Then, she would learn how to cook with Libby. There were a few times when her fingers were scalded. She cried and called James. But he only asked her to look for the medicine. After that, there was nothing else.
She stared blankly at her phone. For the first time, she wanted to smash it.
But thinking that this was given to her by James, she could not bear to part with it.
She wanted to draw and he wanted to work. They only met a few times. She sent him WeChat messages, but he did not reply.
Kara suddenly realized that James was not asking her to be independent, but to let her adapt little by little to live without him. How was she going to adapt?
She realized he was going to send her away.