Chapter 398

Dead silence reigned in the car. One could sense that the atmosphere was entirely different from when Jonathan was present earlier, giving off a sense of an impending storm.

Roxanne was sitting straight, her gaze trained right ahead. She tried her best to ignore the man beside her.

She wasn’t sure whether she was imagining things, but his piercing gaze seemingly locked on her since Jonathan alighted from the car. It had her tensing up subconsciously.

All of a sudden, Lucian’s voice rang out beside her.

“Have I offended you in any way, Ms. Jarvis?”

Relief suffused Roxanne when she heard his voice. She flashed him a detached smile. “Why would you say that, Mr. Farwell?”

Lucian eyed her with a dark look, his voice threaded with displeasure. “If that’s not the case, why are you avoiding me thus, Ms. Jarvis?”.

Roxanne feigned ignorance. “When have I avoided you, Mr. Farwell? Precisely speaking, I don’t have much of a chance to meet you since

they didn’t have a personal relationship besides a professional

they even had no interaction at

no opportunity to meet anyway, so avoiding him made

words rang out, the temperature in the

cautiously stole a peek at the two people at the back through the rearview mirror.

Mr. Farwell when she knows full well that he‘s in a bad

was fretting, he noticed Lucian lowering the partition in the back

gaze, not daring to observe the

heart lurched. She instinctively twisted sideways and plastered her back against the car window to put some distance

why are you shying away from me in such a manner How when you said I hadn’t offended

countenance, and fainht wariness showed in her eyes. In a distant tone, she explained, “I merely feel that we’re not that close with each other, and your action was rather: sudden to

expression, Lucian smirked scornfully.

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