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.”

casual, light-hearted mood from earlier. Instead,

he started playing with the lighter between his fingers. The tiny flame

to the kitchen and

tell him, “Smoking is bad for your health, same goes for staying up late.

“Hm?”

glinting

“No. I’m just saying.”

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

her eyes. “I’m going to

hurried back to her room. Now that her mind was cleared of all

and Matthew walked in. Standing by the side of the bed, he felt envy well up inside of him as

he realized that she was breathing through her mouth in shallow, even breaths, her small

thought, moving his lips against hers until she made a sound of discomfort in her

He shook his head and laughed under his breath before silently exiting the

high in the sky. Turning over and stretching her body, she opened her eyes and blinked drowsily for a moment.

twenty minutes past

missed breakfast and was nearly going to miss

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

out of the guest room, feeling embarrassed when she bumped

“You’re finally awake, Miss.”

so sorry for waking

didn’t say anything. Would

“Yes, thank you…”

so was that fresh produce

took her laptop and went to the living

ambiguous situation with

with each other. Her brain clearly understood that Matthew was

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

meticulously plan out every single detail of

“Miss? Miss?”

of her daze at the

your phone is

“Oh…”

her phone and took a moment to calm

face appeared on screen as soon as

new feature. She said

phone bills? You can only make this kind of call when you’re at home, you know. It’s not a

everything to me. By

just a small apartment. It’s quite clean and cozy, so you don’t

front camera

telling you Clare, I’ve been

before and she was starting to grow

no rush?’ All of your friends are already getting married and starting families of their own. The younger you are when

I’ll get to it as soon as

“Get to what?”

silent at

“Clare? Who is that?”

colleague!

see that Matthew had entered the room. Donnie followed behind him, giving a kind smile and a nod in

was just getting ready to leave. I’ll come back later to make dinner,

couldn’t be bothered by

he leaned forward and grabbed hold of Clarissa’s chin