I looked up at him as Hendrix was getting a little too much. I said, "It's your fault. What do you mean by 'is that okay with you'? It sounds like I'm forcing you. What's with that tone of yours?" Hendrix still replied patiently, "What kind of tone do you want me to use then?"

Evan was driving the car, and I couldn't help feeling a little playful as I said, "Mr. Roberts, will you do exactly what I ask you to?"

Hendrix raised his eyebrows while playing with my hand as he said gently, "Nope!"

Exasperated, I retorted, "You were just trying to coax me like a kid, weren't you?"

He smiled faintly, and the smile on the corners of his lips was particularly pleasant, "As long as the child here is happy, I don't mind coaxing her!"

I glared at him, "You're the kid here. I don't need you to coax me."

When we returned to the villa, it was already a little late in the evening. I went straight into the bathroom to take a bath. Hendrix sat on a fancy chair to read the book that he supposedly hadn't

finished.

from walking over to him. Sitting next to him, I looked at

on me. He frowned slightly and said,

didn't drink much. It was Linda and Naomi who drank so much. I was just accompanying

his eyebrows. Looking stern, he reminded me, "Unless you are

and muttered, "You're just being

my hair for me, saying, "Since you've acknowledged your

so I stopped arguing with him and closed my eyes to

matters, I couldn't help but ask again, "Are you still going to withdraw from the Lancille

days, although he had not told me anything about it, I was feeling anxious about the Milton Group continuing on in such a

he said with

with a hum, still a little

eyebrows, replying, "You

seemed to be that way. If the Lancille Village project was about to

going back to Jarold City as he held my shoulder and said, "Have you decided when

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