Chapter 0110

The meal arrived promptly. Violet handed Naomi the utensils, and began to eat with her head lowered.

Lucius was sitting opposite her, staring at the food in front of him. He poked at it with his fork, but didn’t actually eat anything.

Although the restaurant’s food was reasonably good, Lucius found himself unable to eat.

Instead, he spent the meal observing Violet and Naomi relish their food.

Violet was eagerly filling her mouth with food.

Lucius’s mood soured the more he watched, his eyebrows furrowing in irritation.

Having traveled a great distance to see her, he was met with Violet tearfully thinking about another man and eating merrily, seemingly indifferent to his appearance. Did he not matter to her

at all?

Naomi quickly left for work after the meal. Violet bid her farewell, then turned to see Lucius still

there.

“Just go on with your work. I need to head back to my office too,” she told him, waving goodbye.

“But I’m still hungry.” Lucius retorted.

He didn’t attempt to hold her back, but rubbed his stomach and appeared somewhat pitiful.

Her heart softened slightly, but she reminded him firmly, “You chose not to eat just now.”

“I don’t like eating out,” he stated candidly. “I prefer your cooking.”

“I don’t have a place to cook for you,” she said, making an excuse.

place,” Lucius suggested, countering her

stood

a meal for me? I’ll leave right after eating. Maybe I won’t return,” he

argued.

reluctantly agreed, deciding to cook him one last meal before they parted ways. They would forget each

herself.

116 BONGS

Violet cooked diligently. An hour later, she

eating as if he hadn’t eaten in days. Finishing, he

you a chance. Come cook for me,” he offered, his tone suppesting he was doing

rejected, “No.”

bruised Lucius’s ego. Others begged for a chance to enter the Imperial Palace, but she was the first

just playing hard to get,” he

She shot back “It that’s what you think, then let it be. If you really believe that go

never to engage in

“What’s so bad about cooking for me? I can pay you

need that much money. Her current earnings

rather someone else take this

showed genuine sincerity, truly meaning her words.

frustration escalated with each refusal from Violet. He abruptly

“Hey!”

would strike her, Violet instinctively ducked.

Lucius’s hand caught her arm instead, lifting her chin with one hand and drawing her close with the other around her

intentions, Violet instinctively shut her eyes, and then she felt a soft touch on

and stared at him in shock and

you,” he remarked with satisfaction, licking his lips

resist his kisses, and was surprisingly entranced by them. She wondered if she was losing

“Ouch!”

amid his passionate kiss, Lucius reeled back, glaring at her

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