Chapter 31 Danger Follows

Maurice made a phone call.

“Send some guards upstairs now.”

Nestling in his arms, Eliana looked up and stared at his handsome profile. Her heart started pounding against her chest, and she couldn’t decide whether it was because of fear or something else entirely. The mix of Maurice’s breath and cologne overwhelmed her and stirred something that had long been shrouded in her memory. His smell… It was familiar.

Eliana surely had scented it before. Maurice looked at her with his deep eyes: His sharp gaze instantly stopped her wild thoughts, “Th… thank you, Mr. Moran.”

She coughed awkwardly, feeling embarrassed She stood up for the bad guy just now, but now she felt like she had been-slappēd hard in the face. Maurice let go of her and glanced at her up and down.

“Are you hurt?”

Hearing that, Eliana froze-and looked at him in disbelief. His words were full of concern, and the situation they were in right now was giving her a serious case of deja vu. Maurice’s eyes looked exactly like Preston’s.

wrong?” Maurice frowned.

“Nothing.I’m fine.”

gaze. The middle-aged man struggled to get up and attempted to teach for the dāgger with

was about to touch the hilt of the dagger, he grinned wildly, but the next moment, his expression stiffened. A well-made leather-shoe stamped firmly on the dagger. The middle-aged man raised his head and looked up at Maurice whose face was

Maurice’s questions were cold and hard, which rendered the middle aged man speechless. Eliana was stunned and slowly understood what was happening Maurice kicked the dagger

brainless people would believe such a lie.” Her face flushing red, Eliana lowered her head in embarrassment, and clenched the hem of

for came bursting through the door and quickly subdued the middle-aged man. The middle-aged man struggled desperately and roared,

guards gagged him and dragged him away like a rabid, muzzled dog.

and behaved like a little girl who had just been scolded by her parents. Amused, Maurice let a smile tug on his lips and

why did that man

to kill me.” Maurice didn’t take

woman become one of the dangers that would tail him? Flustered by Maurice’s gaze, Eliana lowered her head, and made her way out

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