All too late for his love

Chapter 336

“Mr. Nightingale, here’s your jacket,” Willow spoke, pulling lan back to reality.

He stiffly accepted the jacket with intense emotions in his deep eyes. She could not make sense of the emotions in his eyes, and she had no desire to. Since he refused to leave, Willow had to politely ask him

to leave.

“Mr. Nightingale, I’ve returned your jacket. Please leave. To ensure that he’d comply, she added, “I need

to take a shower.”

He couldn’t possibly hang around her tiny apartment when she took a shower, could he?

Hearing that, he finally noticed the bruises on her neck, apart from the red strangulation marks. He was averse to women and shied from physical contact, but he knew what had happened to cause the bruises

on her neck.

spot, he glanced at her vacantly. He was a tacit

a shower to wash away the filth on her body from last night–no thanks to

“Willow…”

he wanted to remind her to keep the incident a secret from

will not tell Mr. Quayle about last night. He

me, but I did not complain about you with

wasn’t what I meant, lan

and straight to the point, yet he was at a loss

Willow. The cynical expression on her face

Nightingale, you didn’t have to resort to great lengths last

really didn’t have to.”

“I know you didn’t want to attend the blind date with me. To be honest, I

hard to turn down Mr. Quayle’s request–he’s such a nice and enthusiastic old

in you, and I will not cause you any trouble.

life for Aaron, but I never intended to

will

her promise. To her dismay, he remained rooted in the middle of her