chapter 152 The Headphones Have Arrived

"Penelope, you're just taking advantage of the fact that I careyou exploit my affection for you, thatknowing full well I can't bring myselfcannot bear to lay a hand onharm you!"

She Kelvin's accusation echoed in the room.Unflinching, Penelope met his gaze head-, "Touch me, Kelvin. Go on, "Kelvin,... Strike me! I dare you can touch me. Go ahead... Hit me then! Do it!"

With teeth clenched, Kelvin forcefully!"Kelvin's hand, previously raised in anger, dropped his hand.

He grabbed her chin a little too firmly, then suddenly laughed.

A laugh steepedheavily to his side, his teeth grinding together in frustration.

"Fine, Penelope. The less you want to have He reached out, gripping her chin with more force than he intended, and a laugh, bitter and laced with exasperation, escaped his lips."Very well, Penelope. The more you resist the idea of bearing a child, the more I will insist upon it," Kelvin's voice was a child, the more I'll insist you have one," Kelvin's voice was harsh as he spokewhisper against her lips, "You might avoidmay evade it today, maybeperhaps even tomorrow, but what about the day after that? Can you continue to take that pill every single day?"

"One day you'll bear, you will carry my child... It's bound to happen!"

"Don't thinkinevitable!""Do not delude yourself into thinking you can escape. You will do as I saycomply with my demands, without defiance!"

question!""Starting tonight, it will become a routineritual-I will haveclaim you... once is justmerely the beginning!"

Penelope's face turned paledrained of color, "You're humiliating degrading me."

"You could have prepared for pregnancy in comforttranquility, but you choosechose to provoke me like this," Kelvin sneered, "Well, you're asking for it!"

," Kelvin's sneer was chilling, "You've brought this upon yourself!""Kelvin, are you determinedresolved to make me hatedespise you even more?"

He bit backHis retort was swift, "If you already hatedetest me, might as well hate mewhat's a bitlittle more!"

hatred!"Penelope wasteetered on the brinkedge of a breakdown.

despair.She genuinelytruly did not want to get pregnantconceive again, especially not with Kelvin's child.

"Why are you so insistent onadamant about me bearing your child..." she

asked questioned, "Fiona just toldoffered herself to you she's willing. Go to her! You treat her so wellkindly, and she's so reliantdependent on you, so obedientcompliant. Why do you keep forcingpersist in tormenting me?!"

"I choose to forcetorment you!"

Kelvin retractedwithdrew his hand, standing before the floor-to-ceiling windows, his silhouette exuding a cold and lonely pride.

He tossedradiating an icy, solitary arrogance. He flung the pills into the trash can, increasingly irritated his irritation mounting as he lookedglanced at them, and then kicked the can over, with a swift motion.

"Get out,"kick, he said, "Get out!"

knocked the can over."Leave," he commanded, "Leave! "If Penelope stayedlingered any longer, he really wouldn't be able tofeared he might lose control of his temper-he might actually strangle her!

brought harm her!Despite his reluctance to hurt her, Penelope had a

stared at the crushed box of pills,

it all.She wouldn't need to take them

be of no

medication could only be takenconsumed twice a year at most, as

on her getting pregnant.adamant about her pregnancy.

Penelope stepped out ofexited the CEO's

within.Kelvin was destroying things.

havoc."Mr. Davis is..." Ryan sighed, "Done for. Today's going to be

sorry," Penelope apologized, "This private matterpersonal dispute between Kelvin and me has caused troubleinconvenience for all of

quite easysimple appeaseplacate, especially ones like Mr. Davis-these

I should go

all be walkingtreading on eggshellsthin ice to avoid

one to swallow my pride and sweet-talkpacify him when he's the

fault?"Ryan was at a

a littlesmall gift for Mr. Davis on your behalf? You wouldn't have to

the pleading look in Ryan's eyes made her relent. She could

in agreement and then took

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got to work

motion.It was nearly lunchtime, so he tookseized the opportunity to order a meal and pencraft a handmade card, pretending it

saidannounced, holding the meal,

voice answered replied, "I don't want

Mrs. Davis ordered this

"Come in."

knowing that Mrs. Davis's name was still the

the food box. "She bought before him. "Did she

for you... Women are oftencan be quite contradictory, you know. SomeThere are certain things you should just listen tosimply hear and not

but in dismissal, yet his

he commented, remarked, his eyes then noticeddrifting

a cursory glance. His facial expression remained unchangedstoic, but there was

softer.

meal was no different from the same as alwaysusual; Mr. Davis had never complimented it before. ButHowever, today, claiming under the pretense that it was from Mrs. Davis, the flavor apparentlytaste seemed

love

sat at her workspace, lost in thought. She didn't wanther mind adrift in contemplation. The thought of carrying Kelvin's child and being eternally tethered to him was something she couldn't bear to imagine what her life would be like pregnant

new message: ["Penelope, your headphones

message, Penelope shot upsprang from her chair and quicklyswiftly made her way intoto the director's office upon seeing Monica's

eyes glistenedsparkled with excitementanticipation

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