Meeting The One For Me

Chapter 238

The garage shutter had completely lowered, and it was terrifyingly dark inside the car. Audrey couldn’t see Ryan’s aggressively penetrating gaze and could only hear both their breathing.

Ryan’s jaw was tightly clenched, and he closed his eyes to steady his breath. Pushing open the car door, he lifted Audrey out.

The motion sensor lights in the garage illuminated.

He set Audrey down steadily on the ground, then grabbed the suit jacket from the passenger seat, closed the car door, and entered the security code of the villa before heading inside.” I’ll have the driver take you back.”

Audrey hesitated for a moment, but still quickened her steps to follow him into the elevator and up to the house. She watched as Ryan dialed the driver’s number to have the car brought to the front gate.

Meanwhile, her hands clenched behind her back.

She felt a slight sense of disappointment, though she didn’t quite understand why.

Perhaps it was because, despite Ryan’s urgency at Night Palace, he was now sending her back as soon as they arrived at the villa.

Was it because she hadn’t explained herself properly, or did her refusal anger Ryan?

Ryan grown

jacket tossed on the

retrieved her phone.

Nathan

and blocked Nathan’s number. When she looked up, she found a glass

she

up at Ryan, whose expression remained unchanged,

the view from the floor–to–ceiling windows. Ryan said, The car’s here. It’s getting late. You should head

water and nodded. “Be careful not to touch water with your

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hand. Take care.”

left. He then placed the glass of water on the side table,

poured himself

her head against the window while watching the bustling

couldn’t quite understand what was going on

had

straightforward. He had always been clear about