Revenge is best served cold

Chapter 88 Embracing With Open Arms

I sighed. I opened my mouth to speak, but for a moment, I had no idea what to say.

Eric already had everything planned out for me.

Logically speaking, I should have felt moved, but I was instead feeling rather sullen. If Eric had to handle everything for me, then what else was there left for me to do?

Was I supposed to just sit back and enjoy the results?

I was really afraid of developing a dependence on Eric. Every time I encountered danger, I would think of him. Dependence was the scariest thing to me because once I became familiar with this sense of dependence, I would find it harder and harder to leave his side. Thinking this, I instinctively took a step back, creating distance between Eric and myself.

"Thank you very much for helping me this time, Eric," I said. "I understand that you mean well, but I hope that you'll let me know in advance when encountering a similar situation in the future. That way, I can choose whether or not to accept your help. After all, it wouldn't be fair to you to keep aiding me one-sidedly."

picked up on my abnormal mood. He suppressed the

rather ill-thought-out this time,”

hopes that the situation would be resolved as

the help you've given me this time,” I said in consternation. “How about this? I'll

probably the only way I could repay him at this point

curved up in a faint smile as he gazed at me. “You see, I'm a greedy person. I want that design, but I also want something else. I I blinked at him in confusion. "What other thing

fulfill his wish. Besides, given his character, he wasn't the

to provide

tightly and said in an extremely intimate, captivating voice, Accompany me somewhere.” Before I could reply, he had already started

gazes fitted between the

You know, those

on the receiving end of