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?

grown tired

at the suit jacket tossed on the couch and the tie tak off by Ryan as he went to the

retrieved her phone.

Nathan calling.

looked up, she found a glass of water placed in

she

whose expression remained unchanged, and took the water.

said, The car’s here. It’s

of water and nodded. “Be careful

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hand. Take care.”

the glass of water on the side table, unbuttoned his

in front of the liquor cabinet, he poured himself a drink and downed

the back seat of the car, Audrey leaned her head against the window while

couldn’t quite understand what was going on with

was because she had so little experience with

always been clear about his intentions, and