Love Addiction: Doting On My Love by Wendy

Chapter 0142

Violet was dizzy from Lucius’s abrupt pull. She found herself collapsing onto the sofa by the time she regained consciousness.

Lucius towered over her. His piercing stare was murderous.

Reacting instinctively, she recoiled, her eyes betraying fear. She was no stranger to his ruthless

side.

Her retreat only worsened his irritation. His mood soured as he accused, “You’re here to use me,

aren’t you?”

His accusation had pained undertones and sounded almost childlike.

Violet felt a twinge of guilt and tried to explain. “I didn’t mean to…”

“Since you’ve come to use me, let’s make a deal. I can spare them, but what’s in it for me? What can you bring to the table to make it worthwhile?”

Lucius then lounged on the sofa, adopting a businesslike demeanor.

He sprawled his arms across the back of the sofa, appearing relaxed. His earlier anger ostensibly dissipated as he started treating Violet as if she were non–existent.

Violet was overcome with an unexplainable sense of disappointment. She sat motionless with her head lowered, biting her lip repeatedly.

He warned, “My patience is limited. Those people will be gone if you don’t give me a satisfactory answer within a minute!”

Violet tasted the metallic tang of blood from biting her lip too hard.

“Are they not worth anything to you?”

His tone was cold and laced with mockery. “If so…”

“That’s not what I mean,” Violet interjected quickly, “I have nothing to exchange, and you won’t find value in anything I could offer.”

to

self–aware.” Lucius snorted.

She bit her lip again, this

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to the sight of blood on her lip. Instinctively, he reached out

Let go!”

the tears welling up in her eyes at that moment, and

his voice

her lips in a firm

stunned. Violet could not understand what was

fire within him and motivating him to deepen the

the man taking liberties in

events.

taken such

beside her, and they pushed her further back onto the sofa. She

balance and

nearly crushed her. Pent–up resentment drove

grew too ferocious and

breathless, her thoughts clouding over, unsure of how to react. Eventually, she closed her eyes, surrendering to

she regained her senses, the

of the sofa, his gaze icy.

remarked. His tone was harsh, yet his lips curled in

She touched her neck in disbelief. She

ordered unceremoniously, “Stay

the sudden movement, Violet gazed at him in confusion. Her

pressing her firmly against the sofa,

growl, “Are you deaf?”

ears twitched at the ominous

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motionless, her body rigid with tension,

defensively.