His Destructive, Toxic Love (Jasper and Eliza)

Chapter 323

Eliza took a couple of steps back, startled.

"Who are you?" she asked, eyeing him cautiously.

The man, without looking up, stubbornly held out a rose.

Eliza assumed he was a homeless man, but after getting no response, she shut the door.

She was back home and couldn't get the encounter out of her mind.

Who was that guy?

If he was homeless, maybe he was hungry and hoping for some food in exchange for the flower.

Should she call the cops?

But that seemed like such a minor issue. Would it be a waste of their time?

About an hour later, she peeked through the peephole again.

Weird, the man was still squatting outside.

Could he really be there for food?

she'd bought earlier, and decided to offer it to

She opened the door.

she asked softly, holding out the bread like she

take the bread or even look up at

clutched the rose tightly; maybe a thorn had pricked his palm because there were drops of blood on the ground. Eliza's heart tightened. "Are you hurt? Do you need

No response.

man stayed hunched

bread closer to him. "How about you eat this first, then I can help with your

what she said, the

suddenly lifted the rose

giving me a flower? We don't even know each other. Are you hungry? Here, take the bread." He didn't say

called out to him, but he was gone

didn't even

she turned back, she noticed a name tag on

about 2 inches long, with

The man from the

one who looked

to her doorstep to offer

Could it be...

was here because of that incident when he accidentally pushed her at the construction site. Was this his way of

couldn't figure

It was late, and it was raining. She wondered if Sam knew how to

visited the construction site, my man was acting distracted,