Natalie's breathing hitched a little.
What would he do?
Did it mean if she took her word back, Tobias would kill her?
"You're not thinking about killing me and getting rid of my body, are you?" Her voice wavered.
His lips curled into a sly grin. "No. I'll torture you in bed over and over again."
Natalie's eyes widened and her lips parted in disbelief.
There was no turning back now.
The two of them finally arrived at the Whitlock family's villa.
"Mr. Whitlock, I'm going to bed." She hurriedly bid Tobias goodnight, clearly wishing to leave.
All the events that played out through the day were too overwhelming. She needed some time alone to process everything.
As she spun around and strode towards her room, Tobias grabbed her arm and yanked her towards him. Her entire body jerked with the sudden tug.
"Natalie, please call me Tobias. Mr. Whitlock sounds too formal."
Her heart skipped a beat. "But you're my boss."
"And your future husband," he whispered huskily as his dark eyes stared right into her soul.
Her mind turned into a buzzing mess of static.
Husband...
Was he really taking their relationship that seriously?
"But I am really not used to calling you that, Mr. Whitlock," she replied weakly after pausing for a moment. Tobias was her superior, after all. She felt uncomfortable calling him by his first name. It felt too... intimate. Tobias playfully patted her face and said, "You'll slowly get used to it."
She returned a stiff smile. "Alright."
"By the way," he added, "you'll have to slowly get used to sleeping with me too."
Heat immediately rushed to her cheeks.
She sped off into her bedroom, her face scarlet red.
initially planned to
calmly when she
down no matter how hard
and she was unable to
gave up and went to
before she fell into
She was flattered to receive such special treatment from him all of a sudden. Tobias was extremely caring
only did he help spread the jam on her toast,
help noticing
you helping her spread jam on her toast." Tobias gave him a cool glance and replied, "She's my woman now,
almost choked on her
would tell Hayden that. How did dare he tell him
"woman"?
and he turned to look at her. "Are you going to be my stepmother,
rapidly as he waited for her
eyes, she was suddenly at a loss for
of answering his question, she stuffed a piece of toast into his
asking her whether she was going to
was finally able to free herself from Hayden's
drove them straight to
thought about the breakfast incident and couldn't help but complain, "Mr. Whitlock, you shouldn't
do that the night before. She did not think that Tobias would
raised his beautifully arched brows
to date
glance at her. "Was
caught her off
it's...it's nothing like that,"
handsome man smirked and shifted his gaze back onto the road. "That's more like
mind
did
felt that
hand tight. He had not let go of her since arriving at the company. Pulling her alongside him, they walked towards the office
when they breezed into
almost burst in tears. "Mr. Whitlock, could you stop holding my hand? It's
not let go of her. Instead, his grip on her tightened. "You are my girl now,
tone was
lead her into the office,
so far as to
them had drawn a lot of
to work, she noticed that something
always looked
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