Chapter 365 What a Humiliating Gaze

Chloe quickly waved her hand. “No, I can get a ride.”

She then doubled the fee again. After waiting for ten minutes, it still yielded the same result. She anxiously used another platform, but the results were still nil.

Harold pretended to be helpless. “It’s very late now and this house is pretty remote. It’s normal that you didn’t get a cab. Even if you do, it’ll be dangerous if you bump into a wicked driver. He may try to rob you or take liberties with you. How dangerous is that?!”

Chloe shuddered before she recalled the news of women being harmed after riding in a cab

alone at night… At last, she decided to spend the night. She stayed on the same floor as Joseph but in different rooms.

She stuck to her room. After washing up, she lay in bed and texted Icarus. She thought he would be asleep by now but he called her.

“Chloe, why didn’t you answer my video call? Are you still busy at the office?”

“No… I was celebrating an elder’s birthday.”

“Oh, I see. I’ll go with you next time when my legs have healed.”

Chloe smiled awkwardly and changed the topic.

‘Let Icarus come to the Whitman family with me? That would be treading a dangerous path.’

ended, she recalled Joseph’s

lie to me…’

go to bed if you’re sleepy. Goodnight,” he said gently and considerately, sensing that something was on her mind.

“Okay, goodnight.”

but she needed to get her facts straight before that. She remembered Icarus’ car plate number. If she logged into the traffic

over the past few days. First, Chloe had to go to the jewelry store to retrieve the jewelry she had pawned off the

Suddenly, someone opened the door in the dark, letting in a ray of light from

stood there against the light, his figure tall and strong. His slender eyes were filled with gloominess. As he stared at the person in bed, his expression was

“How

your house?”

“No.”

very difficult for me to get

had purposely thrown it his

stunned before she flared up in rage. “You can’t

the bedside cabinet. He then took off his bathrobe and naturally pushed the blanket aside to get into bed. He pulled her into his arms and slept in the same bed

comparison to the two times they had sex in agitation previously, this filled her with more helplessness and awkwardness. She pressed her hands against his chest and tried her best to distance herself from

now. If not, I’m going to call

have a blanket in

saw one

it

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