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.”

unnervingly calm, as if he were discussing

them once

Joy’s suggestion. She sensed he was angry, but she couldn’t discern the reason for

fine when he

have disturbed him? That seemed plausible

there’s nothing

sachet to Jonathan?” His deep voice

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

Chapter 137 Jealous

the same resentment and

what he

replied tentatively, “It was

over two hundred days, and I have

he was

men. It seemed she was so

too? I’ll add some cassia

Silence again.

if he was knocking on something. Milly grew anxious, uncertain

her life, she might have hung

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

Milly was speechless.

way better than that sachet of

slipped out, even she

said a few minutes ago to calm

miraculously, the icy, resentful

Milly said nothing.

this story’s universe, those words possess some sort of enchanting power? Are

smile lingered until he ended

work report, trembled uncontrollably, unsure if the CEO’s smile signalled his

taken his heart pills before the

sir, about my

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