“Miss, are you here alone?” After he put the beach towel on Elena, the man reached out to grab her shoulder.
Elena must have daydreamed about it. It could not have been Dylan who put the tower around her shoulders, and there were only a handful of people there. She had thought it was him, but reality had presented differently.
“Sorry, I have a partner.”
She shrugged the towel off her shoulder and gave it back to the stranger before she turned and walked into the woods. It was sunny and windy on the beach, so she wanted to seek shelter under the trees. However, the man had followed her and wrapped the towel on her shoulders again.
“Young lady, I’m not a bad person. I just noticed that you are cold.”
He placed his hand on her shoulder and squeezed it.
“Hey! Let go!” Elena picked up her pace and shrugged off his hand. “I don’t need it!”
“Second Young Master Williams is not her. It must be boring to be by yourself. Look, do you see how the girls surround Second Young Master Williams?”
Elena heard him and glanced around at the pier. Sure enough, she saw Dylan surrounded by a few girls. She was not sure what they talked about, but Dylan did not show much interest. Nonetheless, those girls pestered on. They were out for some fun, so she understood that. Girls wanted to make friends with noblemen, and men loved to be around beautiful women. It was only for a fling.
She took the beach towel off again and walked to the shade under the tree. She glared at the man who followed her and bellowed with a low voice. “I don’t need it. Sorry, I’m waiting for someone.”
“Then, I shall wait with you.” The man did not mind her nonchalance. “Come on, let me put this over you.”
He thought all women were the same. They would refuse in the beginning, but eventually, they would succumb to him and lay down obediently beneath him. He had plenty of experiences with that sort of woman!
He claimed only to want to put the towel on her, but he did not miss any opportunity to touch her arms and shoulders. Elena was irritated, and she shoved him away. However, not only did the man not give up, he even went for her waist. The towel was only his excuse to caress her waist!
“What are you doing? I said that I don’t need it, take it away!” Elena looked stern.
However, the other party thought it was a trick to seduce him, so he did not mind it.
Then he hugged her and dove in to kiss her. Elena wanted to raise her hands to push him away, but she was no match to his strength. She could not free herself from his restraint.
“Let go! Let go! You…”
“She told you to let go. Are you deaf?”
Suddenly, a deep voice intervened. Then, there was a loud groan, and the man who took advantage of Elena was punched and rolled onto the ground.
“You…” Just as Elena caught a glimpse of the face in front of her, she felt a tight grip around her wrist. He dragged her to the deeper part of the woods.
“What are you doing? Let…”
“Hush!” The man’s hand fell on her lips. He hugged her and forced her to trail along with him
“Eldest Young Master Williams…”
“I think no one saw that it was me.” The man’s voice was low and muffled; it was deliberately lowered to control the volume.
Elena froze for a moment before she got her senses back. No matter who he was, it was wrong to hit people. If the paparazzi caught wind of that, then there might be a negative impact on his reputation. He hastily went into hiding because he did not want to expose any weaknesses to the public. It was a logical reason, but why did it sound so weird when it happened to Eldest Young Master Williams?
Besides, it was strange for the two of them to behave like that, was it not? They had broken up.
The other man got up and howled, “Who hit me? Who hit me just now?”
“What’s the matter?” Several of his wealthy friends rushed toward him.
“Someone snuck up behind me and attacked me!”
“Who?”
“I don’t know! Damn it! I’ll peel his skin if I find out who he is!”
“Did you see who it was?”
“No, that person must still be somewhere nearby. He took off with Second Young Master Williams’s woman! Don’t let him escape! F*ck! Damn it!”
Elena almost burst out in laughter. Had he known that the person was Eldest Young Master Williams, would he continue to babble? However, it was wrong to have hit someone, especially the kind of punch that sent someone straight to the ground.
“Is it funny?” Michael squinted and looked at the fair and smooth skin in front of him. He immediately lost the mood to joke. How dared she dressed in such revealing clothes!
Elena stopped smiling and lowered her voice. “Not funny. Thank you. I’m leaving.”
She wanted to leave, but he pulled her back. Michael took a step forward, Elena subconsciously retreated only to find that there was a tree trunk behind her and there was no room for her to go.
“I can’t go yet. I don’t want to appear on the news tomorrow about how we are still in contact after our break-up.”
Elena took a sharp breath in alarm. In contact after the break-up! She almost forgot that they were no longer engaged.
“In that case, why did you come by?” She did not ask for his help.
“I don’t want to see the woman that I had played with tainted by another man.”
Elena glared at him fiercely. What a bastard! Why did he talk like that?
“Eldest Young Master Williams, it seems like you were the man I toyed with.”
She had been drugged twice and needed a man to help her out. That was why she looked for him, was that not? Michael’s face darkened. In hindsight, he had been the medicine to her problem. Did she use him?
“Well, since you have played me twice, it is my turn to collect payback.”
His large palm clutched both sides of her waist, and he squeezed it lightly. “After all, I have always been a fair man.”
Elena wanted to give herself a hard slap. She knew about his temper, yet she dared to talk like that in front of him. Did she dig her own grave?
“Eldest Young Master Williams, I was wrong, okay? I was just kidding.”
“No.” No one could joke so casually in front of him.
The most important thing was that it was an excellent excuse.
“Now, I want to claim reparation.”
“Eldest Young Master Williams!”
“Hush! Unless you want everyone to see that we are entangled here.”
He smiled, a little devilishly. “I don’t mind, but I’m afraid you will accidentally expose your body.”
“You… asshole!” She tried to pull his hand away from herself, but she could not do it!
Elena was furious and punched him hard. “Eldest Young Master Williams, we do not have any connection to each other anymore.”
“This is what you owed me.” Michael closed in on her. He blew hot breath on her ear. “Who said that we have a connection?”
That was a hurtful remark, but she could not refute it.
“You’ve used me twice now. I’ll keep it in mind.”
His large palm ran along her waistline and then trailed all the way up her body. Soon, he would have control over her body.
“I’m always fair and just. Now, I’ll collect a little interest. If you are not satisfied with it, then I won’t mind collecting both the principal and interest now.”