Chapter 7

“No,” he said, but he recalled that after he had carried her back to the rental apartment when he wanted to put her on the bed, she had clung to him.

When he went to lay her down, she pulled him onto the bed and rolled until she was on top of him.

A man of rigorous control and training, how had he let his guard down like that? Before he could get up, she touched his face with her hands.

”Your eyes are so beautiful… I really… like them…” she murmured.

“Like?” The word was not strange to him. After all, there were always women who said that they liked him and liked his eyes.

In the past, when he was young, his father would always look into his eyes and become lost in thought. His father would mutter to him, “The kind of eyes you have are deceptive. They look like they’re very emotional, but in reality, they’re the most heartless. I don’t know if you will be emotional or heartless in the future.”

“They’re clean…” She ran her fingertips across his brow. “Clear.”

He sneered. She was drunk. Of course, his eyes were clean or clear or whatever. He’d showered this morning.

“It’s like… They have never been tainted by any sin… They’re clean…” She was so drunk that she didn’t seem to notice that her face was almost touching his. “Jay, don’t be afraid… I will… protect you…”

After saying that, she lay on his chest and fell asleep.

Protect him? This woman can’t even protect herself, but she wants to protect him? What a joke.

as she stared at him.

anything. You

out a

fell on the red, swollen part of

was the truth. After all,

did you get hurt

had a little conflict,” she said lightly. She didn’t want to tell him about the

was still pure like the horrors of this world had yet to touch him.

“It would be great if I had arrived earlier. In that case, you wouldn’t have

have solved this matter earlier. This was just a game that added a bit of fun to his boring life. He had even expected that something might happen after she entered the private

he really saw what had happened, he found that he was

the club to pick me up. Otherwise, I might have slept right next to the street,” Grace said and pulled at his hand. “Thank you, Jay. It’s really good to have you here. And I’m fine, really. It was just a slap in the face. It’s nothing to

smiled as she did now, looking at him like he was the greatest man in

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tricked you into drinking with a man? She’s shameless! I’m going to find her!” Lina had gone to look for her friend that

Grace held back Lina. “I was too careless. I thought that she would at most try to get some money from me. I didn’t really expect… but fortunately, Jay came to pick me up

“Jay?”

him to

old is he?” Lina

years old, a few months

her own saliva. She couldn’t believe that her friend was living

thought that you might

about, but, Lina, with someone living with me, I

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