Chapter 186

Ashlyn was already walking for five minutes now. She had made it out of the villa district but was not able to hail a cab yet.

She was feeling irritated when her phone rang insistently.

It was Lucas. She pressed the answer button.

“Where did you go, damn it?”

The cold voice that reached her ears conveyed its master’s unamused mood quite adequately.

“What do you want?” Ashlyn’s tone was even ruder than Lucas’s.

Holding his phone to his ear, Lucas’s expression darkened noticeably. He was carrying a bag of fresh seafood that he bought from the morning market.

He had decided to go to the market this morning to buy fresh seafood just for Ashlyn.

And yet, this was how she decided to repay him, by vanishing without so much a single explanation.

When he returned to the villa and found the house empty, he flew into a terrible mood.

ranging from frustration, irritation, panic, and maybe even

him

“Where are you?”

“Going home.”

voice inexplicably made Lucas feel better. “Home? What home? Your home is

the living room to

when she heard

but she put her phone into her pocket and continued walking forward, hoping that she could find a cab before Lucas got

for her, the surrounding areas were entirely villa districts. Cabs

Bentley speeding towards

Lucas was pressing his lips together tightly. He opened the car door and pulled Ashlyn inside without another word. Obviously, he was in a

you

frown suddenly eased when his gaze landed on her. His dark eyes swept over her from head to

looked very familiar, almost like it was one of his. The same could be said for the khaki slacks she sported. The oversized shirt hung loosely on her slender frame,

if he could close his entire hand around it. She had casually folded up the over-long

men’s formal wear and yet Ashlyn managed to make them look like

her a hat

to describe it. Ashlyn was

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