My Four Miraculous Treasures

Chapter 53

To think he would actually hold her up.

By 'hold', Willow didn't mean this.

Mr. Hughes probably didn't learn his language well so he couldn't understand what she meant.

Willow was lifted to the point where her heels had left the ground, so she had to stand on tiptoes. Her other arm was grasping her tray tightly in fear of the red wine shattering to the ground. Those were worth twenty thousand dollars.

Held in her hand was twenty-thousand dollars worth of red wine. Standing before her was a man's icy expression with a blizzard raging behind his dark eyes, threatening to freeze her whole being. Willow's chest tightened under the pressure and she panicked.

Her eyelashes were quivering as she blinked nervously. She urged in a weak voice, "Mr. Hughes, calm down. Please put me down. I can't breathe..."

She was wearing a tight-fitted V-neck dress. His fist was pressing against her throat when he lifted her by the collar, and his knuckles were obstructing her breathing.

Her throat was hurting while she suffocated.

ant in the presence of Jasper's masculinity.

about to be exposed as a result of him lifting

easily notice Willow's thighs

of irritation and frowned.

She tried hard to balance herself,

she had been clutching onto fell to the ground

the marble floor. The glass bottles shattered into

as well. Her jaw dropped in shock, and she didn't even care about the aching pain in her butt. The floor was covered in glass shards and red wine with

into a kneeling position to stare at the mess. She grabbed her hair and

twenty thousand. She couldn't afford it

earn

wages were reducing, but her debt was

at home, and she needed the money to

and the pressure that came with