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
when
not calm herself down no matter how hard
thoughts were all in a muddle, and she was
the end, she gave up and went to
long before she fell into a
Tobias and Hayden for breakfast. She was flattered to receive such special treatment from him all of a
toast, but he also prepared sunny-side-ups for her, which was
Hayden couldn't help noticing the change in
nose and asked, "Daddy, why are you being so nice to Natalie today? I never see you helping her spread jam on her toast." Tobias gave him a cool glance and replied, "She's my woman now, so of course,
choked on her
would tell Hayden that. How did dare he tell him
"woman"?
to look at her. "Are you going
as he waited for
she was suddenly at a loss for
piece of toast into his mouth.
morning, asking her whether she
Natalie left for work, she was finally able to free herself from Hayden's interrogation. She breathed a sigh of relief
straight to
help but complain, "Mr. Whitlock,
that Tobias would so shamelessly tell Hayden that she was his woman the
his beautifully arched
agree to date
suspicious glance at her.
questions caught
nothing like that," she
gaze back onto the road. "That's more like it.
frowned, her mind busy doing
words did make
felt that something
let go of her since arriving at the company. Pulling her alongside him, they
hour when they breezed into the building, and YS
in tears. "Mr. Whitlock, could you stop holding my hand? It's inappropriate if others
halted his footsteps, but he did not let go of her. Instead, his grip
was firm and
no choice but to let him lead her
so far as to escort her to the
two of them had drawn a lot of attraction along the
work, she noticed that something
was unusually kind to her. Even Lanny, who had always looked
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