Love Her to No End

Chapter 67 I Yield

“I don’t have any clothing here that’s suitable for young women, Mich. What I do have is a new nightie that I’ve recently bought, so try to make do with it today. I’ll have someone get that sorted out tomorrow.”

“It’s okay, Old Mrs. Xander. I’ve already imposed myself on you quite enough already. My mom might get upset with me if she were to find out how much work I’m putting you through.”

Most kids nowadays are ill-bred and incurably willful, being spoilt rotten the way they are. That, however, is not the case with this girl right here; she is polite, gracious, witty, competent, unfussy with food, and dresses modestly. Mavis’ fondness for the young woman only grew the more she saw of her.

To her, the young woman before her possessed all the qualities that would make her the ideal wife one day. As such, she could not help but lament the fact that the Xanders simply did not have the good fortune to have her become part of their family.

Worried that Michaela would be unable to settle in well since she was staying over for the first time, Mavis spent some time chatting with her before getting up to leave. Nevertheless, she did not neglect to remind Michaela to turn in early.

Michaela saw Mavis to the stairs where she watched the elderly lady descend them with assured steps. She was about to turn back when she spotted Jonathan who was standing not too far away.

Already changed out of his suit, Jonathan was dressed in a more casual outfit that was more comfortable to be worn around the house. For some inexplicable reason, it conferred upon him the geniality of a boy-next-door that was conspicuously absent from his usual high-and-mighty bossman persona.

He had his hands tucked inside the pockets of his pants as he regarded her with a laid-back expression, and when their eyes met, the man’s deep-set eyes and unfathomable gaze were akin to a bottomless pit that threatened to suck her in.

Steadily curling up his lips, he cast her a devilish smile that made her shudder, and in response, Michaela turned and broke into a run, almost without apprehension.

“Stop right there, Michaela Lingard!”

Jonathan furrowed at the woman’s audacity to torment him by her avoidance. Did she really expect to be able to get away scot-free during our time at the Xander residence after entertaining herself at dinner at my expense?

Getting too far ahead of herself, I’d say!

Jonathan’s long and narrow eyes squinted. His pretty and piercing gaze, coupled with the fact that there was not much physical separation between them, to begin with, sent a chill down Michaela’s spine.

Her slightly trembly hands failed to open the door no matter how hard she tried, leaving her fretful

to her side and leaned his forearm against the wall next to the door. Smiling wryly, he said, “Where do you think you’re going? Have you forgotten that this is the place where I lived

her intently, his gaze burning, causing her

subtly as though he was in a splendid mood. “Now, why don’t you tell me, Mich, who is in the wrong here?” he

“I-I…”

eyes reddened. She could certainly start pointing fingers,

already leaned in with his deep-set eyes fixated upon her. “Why did you try to avoid

“I-I didn’t!”

answer, she could not help but feel a little self-conscious under the glare of Jonathan’s intense scrutiny. Not daring to regard Jonathan directly,

something that she

with his background and stature, there was no woman out of Jonathan’s reach. He’s merely toying with me, and this entire affair is nothing but one practical joke

you refusing to look at me?

a mystifying look in his eyes as though to penetrate Michaela’s innermost thoughts. When she did not respond, he nodded, and growled sonorously and dourly, “Fine.

woman’s firm denial. “It’s not what you think! Besides, this is your home. If anyone should leave, it

Xander residence they were in. Hence, she sought to suppress her own voice until it tapered down to barely more than a squeak toward

her was the lack of surprise from the smirking Jonathan. I just knew that she could not bear to be apart from me! Sometimes, it takes the right sort

his slender digits. When Michaela declined to meet his gaze, he snickered. “Then, what do you say to the

so quickly that it rendered

had any intention of walking away. If nothing else, he

from downstairs. “Have you any idea what time it is already? Why are you still going back and forth like that? I reckon that Mich should be asleep by now, so why don’t you give it a

wouldn’t listen. This warm milk that I

the stairs right after

asudden, especially when it occurred to her how intimate Jonathan and her must appear right