Request?
“No, Eldest Young Master Williams! No, I didn’t ask… Eldest Young Master Williams…”
Oh, God! Had she gone crazy? Eldest Young Master Williams had always hated women who took the first initiatives, had he not? She had acted so shamelessly, so why was he still hooked onto her?
“Eldest Young Master Williams, no… Wait, I… It’s still painful!”
The palm that had made her shudder stopped in the air. He noticed the beads of sweat on her little face; she looked frightened. His eyebrows raised quizzically.
“Since it hurts, why did you ask me for it?”
“I…” Elena was at a loss of words. She had deliberately acted shamelessly in front of him, but she did not expect it would backfire on her.
“So, you were only acting in front of me just now?” The man’s voice dropped a few tones.
Suddenly, the atmosphere around them seemed to have condensed into frost. Elena panicked and looked up at him, but she failed to read his emotion from his eyes. He was so impulsive just a while ago, but his eyes had appeared as cold as snow then.
Had he figured out her trick?
Elena squeezed her hands. She could not guess what was in his mind, but she knew that he had seen through her tricks.
“Are you that unwilling to be with me?” Michael’s low timbre of voice revealed dreadful displeasure.
“Are you condemning my skills? Did I not make you feel good?”
“No.” She had never had any experience with other men. How would she know if he was skillful or not?
“Then, why?”
Elena was frustrated. Why did he have to ask her for an explanation? Their relationship was based on a contract. Was it not normal for her to reject him?
“There is no such thing in the agreement.” Did she really need to explain the reasons for her rejection?
The agreement.
However, the word slammed harshly into Michael’s heart. It seemed like she had always regarded their relationship as an agreement! What did he expect? He admitted that he was not happy, but why was he unhappy? He did not know the reason for that. He was the one who set up the agreement, and she had complied with the terms of the contract. She did not interfere with his life, nor did her choices affect him. She abided by the rules, did she not?
Elena did not know what was in Eldest Young Master Williams’s thoughts. His breath remained as calm as still water, but she was still perturbed. She knew that she had not done anything wrong, but as long as he stared at her, she would always feel as if she had done something wrong. Stress started to pile on her.
“Eldest Young Master Williams…”
“Have I allowed you to call me that?” They were supposed to act like husband and wife in the agreement, were they not?
Was that how a fiancée would call her man?
Elena was confused. She had always called him that, so why was that a problem then?
“Then, Mr. Williams…” The coldness in his eyes made her winced.
Very well, he did not like to be called Mr. Mu, either. Then… “Eldest Young Master?”
Everyone in his mansion had called him that, so that should be a safe bet, right? However, she did not expect his expression to turn even uglier. He immediately got up from her and turned around to show her his desolate back. He did not know why he was angry, but he was furious.
Elena did not know what she had done to offend him, and he was clearly annoyed. It was hard to try to figure him out. It had not been an easy job to guess his feelings and thoughts.
She grabbed her lapel and sat up as she turned to look at his back. “Eldest Young Master Williams, is there anything that you wanted to tell me?”
He refused to give her an answer. Did he decide not to look at her when he had nothing to say to her?
Elena seemed to have become more and more familiar with Michael’s temper. Well, it was his mansion anyway. He could go wherever he desired, and he would not need a reason at all! An innocent boy? How about a dangerous cheetah instead? She would do well to avoid the man if she did not want more trouble in her life.
“Eldest Young Master Williams, I’m going to take a bath. You… You are free to do as you wish.”
“Shower together?”
“No!” Elena grabbed her pajamas and dashed into the bathroom. With a click, the bathroom door was locked from the inside. Neat! He was like a viper, and she did not want to stay with him!
As Michael turned, he could see his reflection on the crystal vase nearby. Women had gone crazy over him, just like a moth to a flame. Why did that girl always look for an escape route whenever she saw him? Was he not charming enough for her?
Why was she unlike the other women in his life? Those women had been so eager to get close to him. Michael stood up and walked out to the balcony to look at the night sky. When Elena came out of the bathroom, she noticed that she was alone in the room.
Her phone rang, and she went to pick it up. As soon as she saw the caller ID, her lips curved into a smile. “Luacs…”
Michael did not know what the boy on the other end of the conversation had said. He only saw how Elena sat cross-legged on the bed and laughed so casually.
“Hahaha, that idiot! No, let me tell you. It’s not Layla’s problem, but you and Caleb are so foolish sometimes. Hahaha…”
“That girl likes you, and yet you gave Layla what she had given you. Do you want to get Layla into trouble?”
“… I know that you don’t like her. Yes, I know. There’s no need to be so serious. It’s okay if you don’t like her. I’m here, so I’ll help you to fix this.”
“Is this all that you wanted to say? What were you going to say? The association? Layla told you? It’s okay. I can handle it.”
“Then again, why don’t you like that girl? She’s pretty, though… Okay, It’s my fault. Baby Luacs, Baby Luacs, I’m sorry, okay?”
“But she is gorgeous, hahaha…”
Out on the balcony, the man observed the girl on the bed through the tulle curtains. She sat in a carefree posture; one might even say that she was presumptuous. She had never sat like that when she was with him. She always looked solemn as she sat with a straight back whenever she was with him. She had looked very uncomfortable then.
When she was alone, though, she smiled happily as she sat with an arched back. She would occasionally cross her legs, and sometimes she would even sit like a boy. She had a relaxed, radiant, and unreserved smile on her face, and she looked absolutely carefree. She had never displayed that side of her to him.
The smile on her lips suddenly disappeared when Elena sensed that someone had stared at her with an icy gaze. A man was out on her balcony. The slender figure stood against the wind, and it was apparent that he had been staring at her through the mesh curtain.
When she came out from the shower, she could no longer see Eldest Young Master Williams in her room.
The bright lights in the room, and the dimmed lights on the balcony had reduced the visibility outside. She could not see anyone at the balcony. Therefore, she thought that he had already left. She did not expect that he was still in the room.
When she realized that she was sitting with her two legs wide apart, Elena quickly withdrew her calves and sat up cautiously. Her fingers wrapped around the phone a little tighter, and the smile in her voice disappeared completely.
“Luacs, I still have some things to do, so I’ll talk to you later. Bye.”