Love Addiction: Doting On My Love by Wendy

Chapter 0075

Lucius’s mood darkened again as he observed Violet, who consistently seemed to avoid him like a timid mouse avoiding a cat, yet behaved differently around others.

He cleared his throat loudly to announce his presence.

Half–asleep, Violet was startled awake by the sound and was immediately confronted by Lucius’s cold and stern face.

She quickly sat up, nearly throwing Regina’s hand out of the bed, but managed to gently place it back under the covers.

Violet tried to be as quiet as possible to avoid disturbing Regina, yet Lucius could still detect her

cautiousness towards him.

“I’m sorry,” she offered a timid apology.

It wasn’t a big deal; Lucius understood that without Regina’s permission, Violet wouldn’t have been in that

bed.

Yet he expressed his displeasure, and questioned her sense of propriety. “Sleeping in just any bed? Haven’t

figured out your place yet?”

Feeling self–conscious about her place in Lucius’s eyes and about sleeping in Regina’s bed, Violet’s head

dipped.

“If it were a man in this bed, would it matter to you?” Even though Lucius was oblivious to his underlying resentment, his remarks were filled with a concealed sting.

Violet blinked, perplexed and unable to understand his argument. Was it her sharing Regina’s bed that – disturbed him, or the concept that she’d sleep in anyone’s bed?

Lucius, irritated by her innocent expression, commanded coldly, “Go outside and weed the garden!”

Violet looked at Regina before leaving, as told.

find Lucius beside her, she

Regina. He

sign of annoyance.

she knew Violet was always

avoiding her duties.

to look at

the garden,” Lucius acknowledged,

outside and noticed a little figure, nearly

didn’t protest Lucius’s arrangement, but said casually, “I heard the temperature

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he offered no response to her remark.

fifty degrees. That kind of heat could practically roast someone,” Regina half–joked, commenting

his brows and gazed

plains, meant the sun rose early. While the air conditioning kept the room comfortable,

to call Violet back inside. He believed she was sensible enough to

return once the heat became unbearable.

for his leniency.

undeterred by the

she hadn’t moved

He got to his feet, and said, “I’ll get

something to eat.”

circumstances, a mere word from him would have had the servants bring the food, yet he chose

out himself.

right outside the door, always ready to attend to Lucius.

“Master Lucius?”

Lucius required anything. Without asking George to fetch the food,

with George following

view from downstairs was more expansive due to bulletproof glass walls that provided an unobstructed

of the outside.

grew more stern. As he took a lunch tray upstairs, he told George, “Tell Agatha the

maintained a neutral expression, standing by respectfully, ready