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.

sure that he was

When he recalled that she cried because of him in the nightmare, he

nightmare,” he

senses now.

still could not go away in her mind. She closed her eyes and simply rubbed her tears on

head, and tried to decipher her expression. Angela turned away and covered her face in

funny at all. All he wanted to

were shot with a gun on your head…” Angela

after hearing that. Did

even want him

time, he suddenly felt the urge to laugh, but he

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

locked his gaze on her seriously. With a deep voice, he

“Why?” Angela blinked.

eyes, his self-confidence was

sharp and stern face. The confidence in his eyes was by no means false. It was a strong confidence that emitted from the depth of

that he would never turn

made her face pale, and her eyes lost the

your work?” Angela

her

scared of having nightmares. If you’re by my side, I

to him without her noticing and nodded,

Can I sleep on your bed? The couch is too small.” Angela

his time,

did not refuse her request. Raising

Richard’s arms. Seeing that, he quickly embraced her, causing her head to slam

so hard?!” Angela muttered in

over to his huge and tidy bed that

sitting on the couch. Although it was merely the back of his head, she thought he was good-looking. No man

she felt her eyelids

up the book she read earlier and noticed that she had folded the edge of one

Angela, who was sleeping on her side.

and ordered,

to step in, he saw Richard bringing his finger up

room and left the laptop on the coffee table. After that, he leaned over

warned, “Don’t talk nonsense after you leave the

Did Richard just admit it? Anyway, he was

the sofa, Angela switched various sleeping positions on the

her eyes to find that Richard

mischievous side. She wanted to make

closed her eyes and deliberately pretended to have a nightmare.

of the couch and the sounds of footsteps scooting over to her bed. Now, she felt that

tried to grab something, and soon a big palm held her tightly. She immediately leaned over, as if she lacked

her eyes slightly.

her with deep eyes, watching her continue with her act. To be frank, he already found out that she was awake after she made grabby movements earlier. He knew that she just wanted to

her acting skills, he uttered, “Get up already if you’re awake.

saw through her act, she opened her eyes and whined like a child. “Captain Lloyd, my

He could have ignored her, but

and her beautiful eyes

cafeteria. Everyone had finished eating around this

Trevor happily waved

beside them after choosing her menu. Suddenly, she felt something off from the four pairs of eyes

away. They were just admiring their captain’s future wife! What

want to go for a walk after dinner? I’ll

of eyes stared at him, thinking he was digging his own grave! How dare he flirt with

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

the top of the rocky mountain. I can take you there.” Sean was not afraid of death, pretending

the food on his plate gracefully, as if he

more fun if

looked at each other and saw

that Sean was deliberately asking Angela out, and at the same time, he was also looking for an opportunity to invite

let’s go together!”

raised his head and

Just come and unwind with us!” Angela looked at him

always remind us that work-life balance is important! Come

the door

She had hoped

with a flashlight. Trevor

her shoulders, she wore light-gray sportswear with long sleeves and trousers,

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

be seen everywhere, making the whole

forward. Richard, who was

Sean and Willy looked at each other knowingly and smiled. They were

frogs. Eventually, they arrived at the top of the hill. The tiled stones were suitable for lying down and gazing at

rock, and Angela sat beside him. He stretched out his hand to pull her up, while the others lay down

starry sky, and listened to their interesting stories. Compared with their

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

met Dexter, hoping his love could be her redemption. However,

she wondered, why was life so tiring? Doing what she wanted was the best way to live

program to write,” Sean suddenly said and stood

I have some work to do as

accompany Miss Meyers to watch the stars!” Jared pulled Willy up

you guys want to look at

you! It’s time for us to

at the corner of the

boisterous voices, the mountain top suddenly fell silent as

rest weren’t trying to stargaze at all!

they had misunderstood. They thought the two of them

noticed that he seemed unconcerned about this matter at all as he stared at the distant starry night sky; she didn’t know what

when she saw this. Why should she bother? She should just enjoy and live in

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

vast starry sky, it seemed like all the

straight back, wild thoughts popped up in

he like her, even

his watch and said to the

in surprise; she still wanted to

and did not want her to catch a cold, so he nodded.

not scared of the cold,” Angela hurriedly answered; she liked the feeling of being alone with him under the stars. Even if he didn’t

up and waited for her below the stone. She had no choice but to stand on the rock reluctantly. At this moment, she was half a body taller than him. It was a rare opportunity for her to look at

didn’t have to do anything but stand there to make

into the distance, so silent like a statue under the moonlight. His features had just the right amount of manliness; instead of having a pair of upturned eyes that would make him popular among the ladies, his eyes were narrow and long, while his

exquisite about him was that he exuded a sexy ascetic aura. The more serious he was, the more women desired to

and see how

lips; the feeling she had the last time she touched it was still

more reasonable if a man were to have imaginations about a

dumbfounded when she seemed to realize that she was the one

help me down?” Angela opened her arms, and an

gaze when he heard her; there was no hint of impatience in his eyes. Then, he reached out to hold

her red lips and looked at him expectantly

was hard to see Richard’s expression, but Angela felt that his handsome face was covered by shadows, making

to regret it a little as she figured she would

a long time, she tried to come up

to place her feet. After all, the stone was more

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

Then, her thin arms instinctively wrapped around his neck as she buried her

the man’s neck, causing his

second, she was lowered onto the ground. Unfortunately, because of the uneven ground, she stepped directly onto a protruding

arms around her, preventing her from hitting the

between the two closed; 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 did

them stayed in position for a while as they stared into each other’s eyes as a hint of anticipation hung in the air. Of course, it didn’t help that she gulped when she lowered her gaze at

whether she should pick up the courage and kiss

cold wind blew mercilessly at this time, messing up her long

fell onto her face. “You’re shivering, and you still want

her arms around his neck before pressing her lips to his. Almost instantly, she removed herself, took off, and ran, looking like a runaway rabbit. But because this was

out a cry as she sat down

embarrassed that she wanted to dig a hole and

did you run?” He scolded in a

I don’t, won’t I just be waiting

on to check her foot with a flashlight. Luckily, she wore protective sports shoes, which prevented

embarrassed that she couldn’t even look at him. It was said that it would be easier for women to make the first

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

foot is fine. Can you walk?” Richard asked seriously. Then, he noticed that

her shoelace. He clearly cared about her and took care of her

he not know that everything he was doing was making her

was done tying her shoelaces, his phone flashed in the dark, indicating that he had received a text. Then, he stretched out his hand and took his phone to

phone

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

her neck curiously to take a look. She wanted to know

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