Chapter 137 Jealous

The frigid, resonant voice sliced through the phone, reaching Milly’s ears and making her heart skip a beat. The words she had prepared suddenly seemed to stick in her throat.

“Um… I …

“What was she supposed to say now?

“Heh.” A soft chuckle emanated from the other end, laced with an inexplicable indulgence. “Take your time.”

Milly blushed at his laughter.

She believed she could be ruthless and unfeeling, decisive and swift, with the wisdom of two lifetimes. But hearing his voice for just a moment left her flustered.

She coughed and forced herself to calm down. “Joy told me that you saved me when I fell into the water on set. Thank you.”

Silence followed.

After a moment, he only said, “Hmm.

“Did you call just to say that?”

His tone seemed to shift, becoming subdued as if she had said something wrong.

Remembering something, she quickly added, “Oh, right, there’s something

I got

the helicopter and the truckload of gifts. Joy said they were from you too. But didn’t you say you’d give them to me only after I got into Crestfallen University? Why did you send them early?”

Instead of answering directly, he asked, “Do you like it?”

Milly was taken aback and responded honestly, “I like it, but isn’t it too extravagant?”

“Not at all.”

calm, as if he were discussing something

them

he was angry, but she couldn’t discern

fine when he

him?

there’s nothing else, I’ll

give the sachet to Jonathan?” His deep voice interrupted

aback. It was the second time she had heard this question today. The first

Chapter 137 Jealous

resentment

he

tentatively, “It was Jonathan’s

over two hundred days, and I

as if he was blatantly asking

these men. It

a sachet too? I’ll add some cassia seeds,

Silence again.

“thump thump thump” from the other end as if he was knocking

her life, she might have hung

pause, his voice returned, “I don’t like using

Milly was speechless.

birthday, I’ll throw in a handmade gift that’s way better than that sachet of his, it’s totally one–of- a–kind

out, even

was exactly what she’d said a

miraculously, the icy, resentful

Milly said nothing.

possess some sort of

smile lingered until he ended

work report, trembled

he’d taken his heart pills before

sir, about my project

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