Never Too Far Novel

Chapter 881-890

Angela then moved as if to reach down his pants.

Immediately, Richard grabbed her wrist, stopping her. She then slipped down to place her head on his lap. With a tug at the elastic holding her hair together, the long strands sprawled out across his thighs.

Her beautiful slanted eyes softly shimmered up at him. She looked so enticing, yet her gaze looked so clean and innocent.

Sunlight shining in through the window made her skin appear as fair as snow. Her cheeks were gently dusted with an embarrassed blush, and she looked so charming that he was mesmerized.

There was a slight hitch in his breathing. His hand was still wrapped around her wrist, but he did not know what to do next.

Angela was a woman, after all! She knew just how to make a man happy with her pretty looks.

She smiled as her bright eyes shone with pride. “Am I beautiful, Mr. Richard?”

Richard looked back at her with eyes so deep that there was no way to tell what emotions were hiding in them.

“Get up,” he coldly commanded.

Realizing how boring he was being, she moved to stand up. Just then, there was a sharp tug on her hair.

“Ouch!” she cried out in pain, instinctively moving her head closer to where the stuck tendrils of her hair were. Without thinking, she moved to fiddle with the object that her hair was stuck on—his belt buckle.

“Don’t move,” he rasped out. Still, he was too late. Angela had touched something she should not have.

Her hands immediately shot back as if she had been zapped. Her blush extended up to her ears.

He was…

With brows tightly knitted together, he moved to untangle her hair from his belt.

It was at that moment someone pushed open the door. Four pairs of eyes were immediately greeted with the shocking sight of the two in a compromising position.

The men cursed themselves for their bad timing.

Moreover, when were Richard and Angela so close? They were even making out now!

“We will be back later, sir. Please, continue,” Will said, pushing the other three out of the room before swiftly closing it behind him.

The other three men had wanted to spend a few more seconds looking at the couple. It was rare for them to see Richard acting all friendly with a girl. How they wished they could have kept staring.

Angela was so embarrassed. It was clear the four men had misunderstood the situation.

Richard did not care about what his subordinates thought though. His broad hands were gently untangling her hair from his belt. As the strands were wrapped tightly around the belt, one mistake and she would be hurt.

“Are you done yet?” she awkwardly asked.

“Soon.” His fingers were unraveling her hair, one strand at a time.

She buried her face in her palms from the embarrassment. How could she look the others in the eye now?

Finally, her hair was free. As soon as she could move, she shot to her feet. Her hair tumbled wildly across her back, emphasizing the innocent beauty of her demure face.

“Trevor and the others must have mistaken what we were doing for something else. Can you clarify things to them?” she asked.

“Clarify what?” he said with a huff.

“Do you not want to clarify what happened?” She pursed her red lips together. She did not care what they thought, but she did not want his image and reputation to be ruined. He stood up and grabbed his laptop. “You were reading here.”

He then walked out of the room, leaving her all alone.

Watching him leave, her heart stopped pounding with anxiety the moment the door closed behind him. She felt like crying and laughing at the same time while a strange and sweet sort of giddy joy rose in her.

At that moment, all she wanted to know was if he found her annoying.

The moment Richard stepped into the meeting room, questions began flying his way. “How far have you and Miss Angela gone, Mr. Richard?” asked Trevor.

“Is she going to be your wife?” Jared asked.

Richard calmly looked at them and answered, “Mind your own business.”

“Stop asking. We will be the first to know if he has any happy news to share,” said Willy.

“Yeah, we are waiting for Richard’s wedding invitation.”

While listening to his subordinates, Richard did not intend to explain much. However, work-related matters were not occupying his brain right now. Instead, he kept rewinding what had happened on the couch earlier. He wondered if she always took the initiative to flirt with a man whenever she met one.

Just then, his phone rang. When he glanced at the number, he reached out to answer it, “Hello!”

“Richard, it’s me, Annie.” A shy girl’s voice sounded on the other end. “I miss you so much, so I asked your grandfather for your personal number. Did I disturb you?”

Richard stood up and walked toward the door of the conference room. When he got out, he responded, “I’m sorry, Miss Meyers. I’m currently on a mission. Let’s talk once I get back.”

“Why do you keep calling me Miss Meyers?! I’m your fiancée now! You can call me Ann or Annie.”

“It’s not a convenient time for me to talk now.”

“Oh! Is it? Are you very busy? Can I text you later? You don’t have to reply right away. You just have to reply to me when you have time. I really want to talk to you. This is my number. Please remember to save it!” Once Annie blurted out a string of sentences in her lovely voice, she confessed, “Richard, I like you and miss you very much.”

After that, she hung up the phone shyly.

Richard sighed. His marriage with Annie was not what he wanted. It was just that he did not manage to refuse the marriage in front of his grandfather the last time. He knew that once his current mission was over, he would return and cancel the engagement with Annie.

Besides, Annie was also Angela’s cousin.

Meanwhile, Angela did not sleep well last night. After reading a book for a while, she passed out on the couch.

Richard did not return to the conference room. He stood outside the door for a while, recalling that there was a document he forgot to take.

When he returned to the room and reached out to open the door, he saw the figure of a woman sleeping on the couch. She had nothing to keep her body warm. Since it was now the start of fall, it was very easy to catch a cold.

Richard grabbed a small blanket from his bed and draped it on top of her. Walking to the bookshelf, he tried looking for a file that had been placed there the night before.

After he picked up the file and was about to leave, he heard the groaning of a suffering woman.

Richard glanced at Angela, who was lying flat on the couch, only to see her frowning and a thin layer of sweat oozing from her forehead.

Was she having nightmares?

Richard crouched beside her and squinted his eyes to check on her.

At this moment, Angela fell into a nightmare. After her mother’s car accident, she started having nightmares frequently. Even during the day, nightmares would break into her dreams after she fell asleep.

Presently, she was running in a forest. There were gunshots from time to time. The drone hovering above her head gave her an infinite sense of oppression, as if there was this ardent killing intent that was entangled with her. Though she had run with all her might and panted violently, the murderous aura was still looming over her.

She ran and ran.

Just as she thought she was about to escape the fate of being hunted down and was out of the woods, she saw a row of men with their faces covered in front of her. They were pinning a man down with their hands. The man was wounded and pressed to the ground, and then she saw Richard’s face.

He was trampled on the back by a man with a gun pointed at his head. At the same time, the killer was laughing sinisterly at her.

The scene in the dream made Angela’s face cringe in pain while asleep. Her hands were clenched into fists, and she began to mumble, “Don’t kill him… Don’t kill him…”

Richard felt a strong tug at his heartstrings. What could she be dreaming about? She trembled as if she was suffering some kind of intense torture.

“Angela, wake up,” he called her gently, trying to wake her up from her dream.

At this moment, however, Angela’s trembling red lips called out a name, “Richard… Run! Run!”

After she was done speaking, her hands struggled to grasp onto something.

Richard’s big palm grabbed her hand in the next second, and his handsome face froze. Was he in her dreams?

Why would she tell him to run away? Was her pain caused by him?

At this moment, tears started pouring out of Angela’s eyes. She panted and pleaded, “Richard, please don’t die… I can’t let you die…”

Angela almost cried in her dream. She watched as the masked man held the gun at Richard, as if he was about to end the latter’s life at any moment. Angela stood there in pain and felt so helpless that she could only call out for help and cry.

However, she was not aware that in the real world, her painful appearance was being watched by a man on the spot. She grabbed his hand tightly and cried so much in the nightmare that she could not extricate herself.

Richard could not stand to see her being haunted by nightmares anymore, so he stretched out his other hand and patted her face. “Angela, wake up.”

There was a hint of coolness on the back of his hand, and it was her tears. Richard continued to pat her face until she finally woke up in pain.

The last scene before she woke up was a bloody one. She heard the gunshot, and even though she dared not open her eyes to see it, it was petrifying for her.

When she opened her eyes and saw the man beside the couch with tears in her eyes, she could hardly tell whether it was reality or a dream. Nevertheless, the first thing she did was wrap her arms around the man’s neck tightly, burying her whole face in his chest.

wanted to make sure that

for a while. When he recalled that she cried because of him in the nightmare, he stretched out

had a nightmare,” he comforted

had come back to her senses now. It turned out

She closed her eyes and simply rubbed her tears on

to decipher her expression. Angela turned away and covered her face in embarrassment. After taking a deep breath, she warned, “Don’t

at all. All he wanted to know was if he was that

were abducted, and… you were shot with a gun on your head…” Angela consciously explained what

after hearing that. Did she worry about

did not even

the urge to laugh, but he pursed his thin lips to endure

stifling a laugh. She hit his arm with her fist out of anger and scolded, “Do you have any conscience? I’ve cried so

smiling this time and locked his gaze on her seriously. With a

“Why?” Angela blinked.

self-confidence was

was by no means false. It was a strong confidence that emitted from

seeing his gaze. She believed that he would never turn her nightmare into a

lost the luster

finished your

her

stay here with me for a while? I’m sleepy, but I’m scared of having nightmares. If you’re by my side, I

her noticing and nodded,

bed? The couch is too small.” Angela was

to occupy his time, but she even asked

not refuse her request. Raising his brows, he agreed,

felt light-headed and fell into Richard’s arms. Seeing that, he quickly embraced her, causing her head to slam against his shoulder blades. Her

is your body so hard?!” Angela muttered in

up. Angela walked over to his huge and tidy bed that was filled with masculinity.

then looked at the man sitting on the couch. Although it was merely the back of his head, she thought he was good-looking. No man had ever attracted her with

taking a few more glances at him, she felt her eyelids

and noticed that she had folded the

look at Angela, who was sleeping on her side. She was probably so exhausted that

number and ordered, in a low voice, “Bring my laptop

pushed the door and intended to step in, he saw Richard bringing his finger up to his

until he saw Angela lying on Richard’s bed. Suddenly, he understood something. Smiling subtly, he tip-toed into the room and left the laptop on the coffee table. After that,

“Don’t talk nonsense after you leave

Did Richard just admit it? Anyway, he was happy for him because both of them

sofa, Angela switched various sleeping positions on the bed. She slept on her belly, crossed

find that

Angela’s mischievous side. She wanted to

eyes and deliberately pretended to have a nightmare.

of footsteps scooting over to her bed. Now, she felt that a man was standing beside the

her tightly.

not help but open her eyes slightly. Soon, a triumphant smile appeared on her

her act. To be frank, he already found out that

being proud of her acting skills, he uttered, “Get up already

eyes and whined

looked at the lazy and charming girl on the bed. He could have ignored her, but involuntarily, he stretched

smiled happily like a child, and

came to the cafeteria. Everyone had finished eating around this time. Richard sat at the table with perfect posture while his four men were sitting

this way!” Trevor

them after choosing her menu. Suddenly, she felt something off from the four pairs of eyes currently staring at her. After blinking her eyes, she

just

dinner? I’ll take you to a place that’s great

digging his own grave! How dare he flirt with Miss Meyers in front of their

had nothing to do at night, she nodded happily after hearing

was not afraid of

ate the food on his plate gracefully, as if he hadn’t

tonight? Why don’t we go together?” Angela thought it would be more fun if there was

three looked at each other and saw Sean winking at

relax often. Let’s go together!” Trevor quickly understood that Sean was deliberately asking Angela out, and at the same time, he was also looking for an opportunity to invite

go together!”

raised his

the whole afternoon. Just come and unwind with

work-life balance is important! Come with us!” Willy

meet at the door in five minutes and set off

beamed. She had hoped that Richard would come

door and set off with a flashlight. Trevor also

While her long hair hung loosely on her shoulders, she wore light-gray sportswear with long sleeves and trousers, as well as hiking shoes. She looked full of vigor, even

her walk in front of Richard, while Trevor and Jared explored the way in front, leaving Sean and Willy walking

be seen everywhere,

and fell forward. Richard, who was behind her, immediately grabbed her arm

and Willy looked at each other knowingly

and admire the peculiar rocks at night. There was also a little fountain nearby, accompanied by the lively sound of frogs. Eventually, they arrived at the top of the hill. The tiled stones were suitable for lying down and gazing at the starry sky. At that moment, the starry sky in fall was clear and cloudless, as if the Milky Way flowing through the vast starry sky was visible,

up, while the others lay down on the

sky, and listened to their interesting stories. Compared with their colorful lives, Angela’s life had been a

family. She had worked hard to attend various expensive cram schools since she was a child. She was not a pianist, but she passed the eighth grade; she was not a dancer, but she had great dance skills. Her mother wanted her to take over the family business, so she went abroad to study

Angela met Dexter, hoping his love could be her redemption. However, he turned out to be a liar, which almost ruined

was life so tiring? Doing what she wanted was the best

I still have a program to write,”

that you’ve mentioned it, I think I have some

to

at the stars?” Angela shouted to their

us to get back to work,” Sean turned back

people disappeared at the corner of the downhill

their boisterous voices, the mountain top suddenly fell silent as

realized that Trevor and the rest weren’t trying to stargaze at all! They were just deliberately creating an opportunity for her and

they had misunderstood. They thought the two of them were

this matter at all as

this. Why should she bother? She should just

her neck was a little sore from sitting and looking up at the stars, so she laid down on her

at the vast starry sky, it seemed like all the worries in her mind had

at the man’s straight back, wild thoughts popped up in her mind; Would

her, even a little

watch

still wanted to enjoy the beauty of the starry night

want her to catch a cold, so he nodded. “Yeah,

feeling of being alone with him under the

choice but to stand on the rock reluctantly. At this moment, she was half

to do anything but stand there to make people’s hearts skip

instead of having a pair

even more exquisite about him was that he exuded a sexy ascetic

craved to break his abstinence and see how wild he

she had

a man were to have

dumbfounded when she seemed to realize that she was the one having thoughts

Lloyd, can you help me down?” Angela opened her arms,

there was no hint of impatience in his eyes. Then, he reached out

She pursed her red lips and looked at him expectantly with her beautiful

see Richard’s expression, but Angela felt that his handsome

as she figured she would suffer the embarrassment of

a long time, she tried to

said that, she began to look around for somewhere to place her feet. After all, the stone was more than half a meter from the ground; she was afraid she

moment, a large palm wrapped around her waist tightly, and he carried

thin

neck,

the uneven ground, she stepped directly onto a protruding stone, and her entire body

and wrapped his arms around her, preventing her from hitting the stone

when he lowered his head as she raised hers, their faces were no

rapid as she thought about how unreal this was. She was reluctant to push him away but

eyes as a hint of anticipation hung in the air.

should pick

wind blew mercilessly at this time, messing up her long hair and

moonlight, the man’s sharp gaze fell onto her face. “You’re shivering, and you still want

his neck before pressing her lips to his. Almost instantly, she removed herself, took off,

cry as

on her. Angela was so embarrassed that she wanted

did you run?” He scolded

don’t, won’t I just be waiting to

to check her foot with a flashlight. Luckily, she

so embarrassed that she couldn’t even look at him. It was said that it would be easier for women to make the first move, but she felt that there was a chasm between

it be that it was the other way around for them? Did she have to chase

seriously. Then, he noticed that her shoelaces were untied and

about her

he was doing was making her

a text. Then, he stretched out his hand and took his phone to check. This phone of his wouldn’t have any

phone was considered

opened the message, it was a series of texts from Annie. Immediately, he frowned

face and stretched out her neck curiously to take a look. She wanted to know who had

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