You'll Fall For Me, Today or tomorrow

Outsiders might think that Matthew was a lone wolf, a cool and collected person determined to achieve his goals no matter what.

But there was another side to him that very few people knew about.

Unreasonable? A horrible flirt? Thick-skinned?

And so many other qualities that she had yet to discover.

What the hell am I thinking!

What else is there worth discovering?

Clarissa wanted to push Matthew away and leave him behind in an ultra-cool fashion.

But the reality was that she wasn’t strong enough to push him away, and she couldn’t act cool at all.

She gave up on trying to push him away. Furrowing her eyebrows, she said, “Let go of me. I want to go home.”

“Go home? To let your mother send you straight to Luke’s bedroom?”

His words hit a nerve.

Clarissa was so frustrated she wanted to scream. If she went back to her apartment, she might have to deal with Hilary’s various acts of victimhood and attempts to gain pity. And even if she tried to prevent herself from feeling any emotions, there was no way she could be cruel towards her own mother.

So, she calmed down and just stood there.

Matthew chuckled under his breath, the hint of a mocking smile on his face.

This woman’s too stubborn and prideful to take back what she said. I bet she’s waiting for me to be the one to persuade her to stay.

“Are you staying?”

Clarissa forced herself to glance at him. “I’m taking the guest room downstairs.”

“Of course. Did you think you were going to get to sleep in the master bedroom? Or worse, sleep with me?” Matthew raised an eyebrow.

“You… You wish!”

Clarissa’s jaw clenched in annoyance.

He had already let go of her and was heading upstairs.

Just as he turned the corner, he looked back to say, “Don’t come out of your room at night. I’m afraid you might come into my room and take advantage of me.”

“That’s supposed to be my line.”

She pulled a silly face behind Matthew’s back to relieve her anger.

Soon after, Mrs. Lawson silently appeared out of nowhere to help her with her sleeping arrangements. Clarissa laid down on her bed after everything was settled, but she didn’t feel sleepy in the slightest.

It got worse when it started to rain outside. In the end, she sat up and left the guest room.

A small, dim lamp in the living room illuminated the silhouette of a man sitting on the sofa.

All her feelings of sentiment, sadness, and depression swiftly cleared from her head. Just as she was about to turn around and leave, Matthew spoke up.

“Come here.”

“I just came out for a glass of water.”

from earlier. Instead, his expression was

cigarette between his lips and lighting it up, he started playing with the lighter between his fingers. The tiny

her. Steeling herself, Clarissa went to the kitchen and drank from a water bottle before leaving for her

kitchen before sighing heavily, turning around to tell him, “Smoking is bad for your health,

“Hm?”

her, his eyes glinting in

“No. I’m just saying.”

laughter rang out in the silence. “I like the fact that you never say

eyes. “I’m going to sleep.

her room. Now that her mind was cleared of all nonsensical thoughts, she was able to fall asleep rather

few minutes later, the door to her room was slowly pushed open, and Matthew walked in. Standing by the side of the bed, he

a closer look at her face, he realized that she was breathing through her mouth in shallow, even breaths, her small

second thought, moving his lips

now facing him. He shook his

Clarissa woke up, the sun was already hanging high in the sky. Turning over and stretching her body, she opened her eyes and blinked

twenty minutes

was nearly going to miss lunch

of brand new clothes for her to wear at the foot of

feeling embarrassed when she bumped into Mrs. Lawson in the

“You’re finally awake, Miss.”

Lawson, I’m so sorry for

say anything. Would

“Yes, thank you…”

that fresh produce was being delivered to the

the food to Matthew. Then, she took her laptop and went to the living room,

this ambiguous situation with Matthew was not

brain clearly understood that Matthew was not

maybe things were continuing this way because it was what she had been

meticulously plan out every single detail of

“Miss? Miss?”

daze at the sound of

your phone is

“Oh…”

phone and took a moment to calm herself

face appeared on screen as soon

so well! Julia taught me about this new feature. She said it saves money because it

can only make this kind of call when you’re at home, you know. It’s not a very useful feature if you don’t

already explained everything to me. By the way, where

apartment. It’s quite clean and cozy, so you don’t have to

front camera didn’t capture her

called me a few days ago, saying you were taking care of her and what a good daughter you were. She sounded quite guilty, so please don’t hold a grudge against her. “She also mentioned she was setting you up on blind dates? Have you gone on any yet? How are the men? How are their families? I’m telling you Clare, I’ve been through a lot in my life. What’s most important is that he loves you and takes good care of you. His wealth doesn’t matter as long as he has a stable job, and it’s fine even if

before and she was starting to grow impatient. “I know, I know. I’m only twenty-six years old,

families of their own. The younger you are

I get it! I’ll get to it as soon as

“Get to what?”

at

“Clare? Who is that?”

colleague! I’m hanging

to see that Matthew had entered the

“Why are you back so early? I was just getting ready to leave. I’ll come back later to make dinner, so you don’t have to

chuckled while Donnie couldn’t be bothered by her forced, obvious

leaned forward and grabbed hold of Clarissa’s chin