I didn’t shy away from Michael’s gaze. Even though his terrifying aura scared me, I refused to yield.
“I’ll prove to you that the little lawyer doesn’t deserve your affection.”
As soon as he said that, he turned around and left.
After leaving the office, I dropped by the supermarket to buy some groceries before going back to the house in Birchwood.
Back home, I washed my hands and started cooking dinner. Due to being used to living with Natalie, I cooked two portions of dinner out of habit. As I sat at the dining table and stared at the amount of food, my heart clenched painfully.
Taking a deep breath, I forced myself to stop thinking about anything upsetting and picked up the cutlery to dig into my food. Just then, the sound of the door opening reached my ears. Stunned, I whipped my head toward the door.
Feeling scared was inevitable when I was living alone in a house, especially during the night. After all, there were many cases of breaking and entering, as well as young women being attacked in their own homes.
I was born with a wild imagination, so I felt somewhat nervous at that moment.
But when I saw Michael appearing through the door, I exhaled in relief.
However, it was short-lived. When my mind registered that it was Michael, I became nervous all over again, but for a different reason.
you
as he walked in, recalling the little dispute we had at the
here so late at night just to get even
a CEO of a big corporation, for
of that left me with frayed nerves, and a hint of wariness entered my eyes
over tonight.” Michael
as hard to satisfy him, which did nothing to make me
Knowing that
a trace of delight. Then, he
raised his head to look at me with a charming smile. “Not bad. You
me of sunshine during the winter, and I felt warm and fuzzy on the inside. I stared at him
grumbled silently about him assuming that I had
did, he’d definitely get mad. Hence, it was better to let him think
ate my dinner in silence while debating if I
me right now, the thought of John playing with her feelings made
on my face, Michael put down his cutlery and asked indifferently, “What are you thinking
front of
seemed to have something against Yuval, and I didn’t like it one
to make Natalie believe me and realize that John is playing with
already spelled everything out for her the other day, but she still refused
that’s easy,” Michael replied in a bored
an idea?” I quickly asked, staring
know you weren’t lying to
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