The Ceo’s Convict Wife by Jennifer Mike

Chapter 165

Lillian’s initially flushed face paled. Her lips trembled, and she could choke out one sentence, I’m sorry.”

After all, she was the one who had said these words, but she was also the one who failed to act on them.

“You have a lot to be sorry for,” he said.

There was another moment of silence in the car. After a long while, the car finally rolled to a stop. Lillian got out with Callum, only to find it was the same villa he had brought her to yesterday.

Recalling the unspeakable scene she had witnessed last night, Lillian couldn’t help but stop in her tracks.

“What? You don’t dare to go in?” Callum turned to face Lillian.

Her lips trembled as she tried faking a smile. She croaked, “Whatever you say will be the same whether we’re inside or outside.

Callum chuckled wryly. “If I wanted to detain you, Lillian, there are many ways I could go around it. And I can also guarantee that it won’t be so easy for Jonathan to take you away this time.”

Lillian hesitated for a moment and then gritted her teeth. Who was afraid of him? If he wanted to hurt her, there was no way for her to stop him anyway!

As a result, Lillian took a couple of steps forward in rage.

Callum also strode forward indifferently.

They walked into the villa, and Callum pointed to a sofa. “Sit down,” he ordered.

As if she were a grade school student, Lillian sat down obediently.

hand. He held the glass and walked towards her, saying,

in her heart. She had assumed that this wine would be as mild as fruit wine. Who would have thought

been as awkward

thanks, I’m not thirsty.” She smiled

her to hold it. “I didn’t want to learn how to mix drinks at first. After all, I didn’t intend to be a bartender, but I’ve picked it up over the years.

in Lillian as she heard these words, and the cocktail in her hand seemed to

His gaze

get drunk. And then….it would be up to him how he would enact his revenge. It was just

were ready to sacrifice herself for the greater good. Unbidden, the word “okay” carne tumbling from his thin lips.

head and knocked back

and now were completely different. In the past, she had only thought about how good it tasted. “But why does it taste so bitter now?” she thought.

said, looking

in her mouth. The taste of the cocktail

that was supposed to be savored slowly had been downed in one go by her. “Callum, what do you want me to do for you to let that incident go?

became considerably bolder,

rumbled, “What you owed me from

and looked at him with her round eyes wide open as if she were thinking

“Yes, he answered.

and shook her head, Perhaps it was because of the alcohol just now that she felt a

as powerful as it

was so potent. She could do things that she couldn’t

at the zipper of her coat and beginning to take it off.

A light flashed through them as he watched Lillian’s antics.

peeling off her sweater