Master Odell’s Secret Ex-wife

Chapter 2048

A flash of light darted across his dark eyes.

After a moment, he restored his usual calm demeanor.” Well, here I am right in front of you now. Will you tell me how you plan to claim responsibility for that night?”

Isabel bit her lip. She had been thinking about this endlessly over the past two days.

Before he showed up, she even considered buying his silence with a huge cheque and tell him to forget about it, but now that she was facing him and looking at his handsome face, she realized she could not bear to hurt him and could not get the words out.

Doing that was almost certain to wound his pride and feelings.

She opted for a direct approach instead. “How do you expect me to take responsibility?”

She wore a stout, serious expression that held a strange contrast with her doll-like appearance.

Roland looked at her silently for a moment, then suddenly lowered his head close toward her.

At the same time, he cupped her chin with his palms. Isabel could feel the warm touch of his fingers pressing against her lips. She was so close to him that her eyes widened immediately.

Her usual instinct in situations like this was to give the man a brutal slap, but now, she had grown stiff and could not move at all.

and pulled away. He looked at her solemnly and

Huh?

Boyfriend?

trying to

know how to respond to such

after a long silence, Roland frowned faintly.

for a moment before stating, ’

“I know.”

get into a

any law or ethical reasons stopping

“I…I’m too busy.

“It’s okay, I’m very busy too. I won’t get in the

knew what to say

eyes had a blinding glow underneath them that made him resemble a ferocious beast ready to pounce from the fog of the rain. There was a certain all-consuming wildness inside them, and

make herself refuse him even if she wanted

if refusing him would suddenly make her a terrible woman that had

last, “Okay, if you don’t mind

not a marriage, thus they could