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.

to him

“Where are you?”

“Going home.”

feel better. “Home? What home? Your home is right

to the living room to pick up his car keys before

she heard Lucas end the call. The beeping sound of the disconnect tone reached her

hung up on her, just like that. Ashlyn was furious, but she put her phone into her pocket and continued walking forward, hoping that she could

were entirely villa districts. Cabs were

Lucas’s Bentley speeding towards her. He pulled up beside her with a

lips together tightly. He opened the car door and pulled Ashlyn inside without another word. Obviously, he

you wait for me to

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

be said for the khaki slacks she sported. The oversized shirt hung loosely on

could close his entire hand around it. She had casually folded up

be men’s formal wear and yet

chest loosely. If someone gave her a

was no way else to describe it. Ashlyn was beautiful. Even wearing his clothes, she was drop-dead

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