She was feeling irritated when her phone rang insistently.

It was Lucas. She pressed the answer button.

“Where did you go, damn it?”

The cold voice that reached her ears conveyed its master’s unamused mood quite adequately.

“What do you want?” Ashlyn’s tone was even ruder than Lucas’s.

Holding his phone to his ear, Lucas’s expression darkened noticeably. He was carrying a bag of fresh seafood that he bought from the morning market.

He had decided to go to the market this morning to buy fresh seafood just for Ashlyn.

And yet, this was how she decided to repay him, by vanishing without so much a single explanation.

When he returned to the villa and found the house empty, he flew into a terrible mood.

He went through a rapid series of emotions, ranging from frustration, irritation, panic, and maybe even the slightest hint of disappointment.

led to him calling Ashlyn

“Where are you?”

“Going home.”

inexplicably made Lucas feel better. “Home? What home? Your home is

seafood into the kitchen, striding to the living room to pick up his car keys before heading

about to retort when she heard Lucas end the call. The beeping sound

that. Ashlyn was furious, but she put her phone into her pocket and continued walking forward, hoping that she could find a cab

for her, the surrounding areas were entirely villa districts.

see Lucas’s Bentley speeding towards her. He pulled

Lucas was pressing his lips together tightly. He opened the car door and pulled Ashlyn inside without another word. Obviously, he was in

you wait for me to

eased when his gaze landed on her. His dark eyes swept over her from head to toe. Ashlyn

wore looked very familiar, almost like it was one of his. The same could be said for the khaki slacks she sported. The oversized shirt hung loosely on her slender frame, tied in a messy knot above her waist

he could close his entire hand around it. She

be men’s formal wear and yet Ashlyn managed to make them

hair in an intricate braid that hung in front of her chest loosely. If someone gave her a hat to complete the look, she

else to describe it. Ashlyn was beautiful. Even wearing his clothes,

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