The Sway and Slide of Love by Jean Song

Chapter 238 Chapter 238

Hendrix drove to Galaxy Grove.

Noelle had expected him to come, so when she opened the door, she didn't look the slightest bit surprised.

Hendrix looked inside the house first.

"He went on a business trip," Noelle said to him, as if she knew what he was searching for.

Hendrix smirked. "You think I'm afraid of him?"

"I didn't think much of it, but after all, he's my boyfriend. The way you're acting so self-righteous doesn't seem quite appropriate, either."

As she spoke, Noelle had already turned around. "Come in."

Hendrix pressed his lips together and, in the end, followed her inside.

This was his first time entering the place. Last time, he had only made it to the door. Now, stepping inside,

different from

slightly cluttered table, and a cabinet across

this kind of felt more like a place he would

on the medical kit on the coffee table,

but smile. "You're accurate when it comes to

lips lifted slightly. Even with injuries marking his temples and cheeks, his face remained strikingly handsome. However, his eyes seemed coated with frost,

sat down on the couch. Her voice was

reached for the iodine with steady hands, her gaze

around and leave. After all, the irrational things

around her all this time. But he couldn't bring himself to completely

trampled on by her. He

at his sides and his

a fleeting moment, the urge surged within him to kick ever the coffee table and pin

was within his grasp. Yet, in reality,

cotton swab and the iodine to tend to

his skin, but Hendrix ignored it, his gaze fixed downward

already taken a shower. Now, she wore a simple nightgown, her long hair cascading over her

her and her surroundings in, he couldn't help but feel a sense of dissonance. And,