Can’t Win Me Back

"Why? Do you finally notice me beside you?" teased Julien while he admired Jonah's perfect side profile.

He grumbled, "You've been ignoring me for a good half an hour. I was thinking of ignoring you forever if you kept giving me the cold shoulder."

Despite being fatally attracted to Julien's childlike behavior, Jonah hid his feelings and asked calmly,

"Do you often join Mandy and the others for tea?"

"Yeah."

"You're a young man. Don't you feel bored when you hang out with a bunch of middle-aged ladies?"

Jonah scrutinized Julien. "You led a carefree life in Mosgravia. There's no need to suppress your wants. Just do anything you feel like doing."

"What if you can't handle me if I let go of myself?" Julien drawled and cast an irresistibly flirtatious look at Jonah.

distant

with your work as the president. You won't have time to worry about me,"

pressed his

Mandy and the others, in case we become family one day. This

lingering in the air.

his eyes. He casually remarked, "Lyla said you love nuts." Staring ahead, he tensed up as he added, "You ate all the

can't stop once I start eating them." Although Julien was a man, he looked like a young woman when he was excited. "Aunt Mandy always peeled the nuts for me when I was a kid. I could munch on the nuts forever, but she peeled them for me without complaints until I was

rasped, "I'll do that for you the

at Jonah's lips. "Sure. I'd love to eat the nuts

curled his fist the moment he read Julien's mind—he noticed Julien's

was spent when she reached home. On their

was truly tired, but at the same time, she was hinting at Jasper to go easy on her when they made

his arms and brought her into the house. Her