Chapter 274 Try Again
All the way home, Calista could still feel Lucian’s heavy gaze on her back.
Yara was squatting beside the table, peeling some shrimp in gloves. The meat was neatly arranged aside. She looked over as the door opened to see Calista taking off her shoes.
“Why are you in such a rush? Is there someone after you?”
Calista glanced at the table. Nothing else had been touched besides the barbeque meat, which had
cooled down.
“Why aren’t you eating?”
“I was waiting for you,” Yara replied, taking off her gloves to pour a glass of wine for her.
“You didn’t say you wouldn’t be coming back. I can’t finish all this food by myself. I was peeling the shrimp
while waiting for you. If you had not returned after I’m done, I would have eaten.”
Calista was a bit thirsty and took a big gulp of the wine.
“Is this your idea of a diet?”
Yara didn’t respond well to the comment and began to vent her frustration.
“I am tired! Do all the people around Lucian have issues like him? They say that buying antiques ont
Antique Street is all about having a keen eye and finding underpriced gems, but he didn’t believe it. Today, under the sun, he dragged me to a treasure hunt for his grandfather. I planned to stay in the shop all day, I didn’t even apply sunscreen or wear a hat. Being exposed to the sun without protection is no different
from running naked! This is unacceptable!”
She tilted her head back and inched closer to Calista’s, “Look, my face is sunburned and peeling.”
Calista didn’t respond.
“Also, I agreed to help out of kindness. But while I was trying to negotiate, he stumped them with his legal.
terms. Those who didn’t know he was buying antiques for his grandfather might think there’s a crackdown
on this industry. I’m too embarrassed to run any business on that street after this!”
to Yara’s rant, Calista said, “Perhaps Mr. Howard is just a meticulous person.
are not meticulous; it’s insane, Yara retorted, obviously harboring much resentment towards Lucian
ver want to see his face again. By the way, where were you? You seemed in a hurry.”
had happened. Yars was furious and cursed Zachary: Then, she
“Lucian is so overprotective of you. Does he like you?”
With a glass in hand, Calista pondered and recalled something Lucian had said, frowning slightly,”
Perhaps.”
“What do you think?”
Although Yara wanted to match Calista with Hector, she felt Calista wasn’t interested in Hector, possibly
because Calista hadn’t gotten over Lucian.
“Once bitten, twice shy. If you had experienced a marriage like that, what would you do now?” Calista
asked.
Yare th
tilted her head, thought for a moment, and answered thoughtfully.
“I might cut off his balls, fulfilling his aspiration of maintaining his purity, and then he could live in misery while I go to prison. We would never cross paths again, let alone face the dilemma of him having regrets
and trying to win me back.”
Calista was speechless. She shouldn’t have made that assumption.
The next day, after getting off work, Calista went directly to the manor on the hill. Berta had never been friendly towards her, and today was no exception.
She looked at Calista as if she wanted to devour her.
“Sir heard that you had an incident at Apthon and has arranged a bodyguard for you.”
Upon hearing this, Calista stopped in her tracks and looked back at Berta sharply.
“He knows about the incident at Apthon?”
Berta looked at her disdainfully.
“He knows everything.”
Footsteps echoed, and Berta instantly reverted to her usual straight face and headed into the kitchen.
was such a two–faced person!
Calata had no intention of accepting the bodyguard provided by this man. He was a mystery, and this
strange throughout.
Berte wouldn’t be hostile to her. If not, that bodyguard was probably i
m
She had already thought of a way to refuse, but unexpectedly, the man who walked out was the one who
had saved her at Apthon.
She was drugged, but the effects hadn’t fully kicked in, so she had seen his face clearly when he exited
the car.
“It’s you!”
Im Liam. Sir instructed me to watch over you,” the man introduced himself politely.
“Were you also instructed to save me at Apthon?”
Liam frowned.
“That was bad luck. I just happened to run into it. I couldn’t stand by and watch.” His short–sleeve shirt revealed fresh wounds on his arms. He sustained them when he rescued her that night.
Calista didn’t believe a word. Why didn’t he help her when she got kidnapped off the streets?
He rescued her while in the car, and she didn’t call for help. How did he know she was in danger?
“Who is this, sir? Or rather, which family from Apthon does he belong to?”
Her gaze was intense and pressing. Liam remained nonchalant.
“He doesn’t have a face. He might be a man if his voice isn’t altered. I don’t know anything else.”
“You don’t even know your employer, and you dared to take the job?”
“I am just a bodyguard. I take any job when someone hires me. I just need to know what the person I am
protecting looks like, it doesn’t matter what the employer looks like.”
Calista was skeptical, but Liam was tight–lipped, even more so than Lucian. No matter how she tried, she
couldn’t get any helpful information from him.
Speaking of Lucian, he was in a highly private psychological clinic at that moment, watching with a cold.
pression as a doctor removed some equipment from him.
The psychologist adjusted his glasses and said gently, “Mr. Northwood, there’s nothing wrong with your
body. You’re even more sensitive than usual. You mentioned your lack of performance when facing your
That is likely because you are too nervous around her. Your first experience wasn’t pleasant, and
fraid
id of hurting her again, hence the reaction. I suggest you try again, with longer foreplay, to sase
Of course, I will try to counsel you as well.
on:
Lucian entered the consulting room with a gloomy face and left with the same expression. He headed straight out without paying attention to Cade sitting on the sofa waiting for him.
Cade was sending a message when he noticed someone in black trousers passing by. Looking up in confusion, he saw Lucian had already walked far ahead.
Cade muttered, “What the hell?”
He got up to follow her.
“What’s with that expression? Did the doctor say there’s no hope?”
Lucian’s expression darkened further. To him, the doctor’s suggestion sounded even worse than having
no hope.
“Shut up.
Cade coughed awkwardly, his voice gentle and coaxing, “Where are you going?”
Lucian gritted his teeth, “To find Calista.”
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