Chapter 0036

thought that Pete would laugh at my disheveled state. I thought that he would clap and ridicule me. It was what he'd done for more than 20 years, and he was good at it.

I hadn't expected him to show such concern.

However, I did not need concern or revenge at this time. All I wanted was some peace and quiet.

"Don't bother." I turned him down.

I tried to walk past him, but he grabbed my wrist and stopped

1. me.

I'd been in too many confrontations today, so I wasn't in a good mood. I couldn't help but raise my voice. "Pete Shelman, go and find yourself some other plaything. I'm not in the mood to be your toy right now!" Pete's eyes darkened with an emotion that I couldn't decipher. You're not my toy," he said earnestly.

Without giving me a chance to react, he pushed my hair behind my ears and leaned closer to me. He was so close that I could smell the aftershave lingering on him.

When I snapped back to my senses, I tried to back away, but he grabbed my hand forcefully. "Let's go to the hospital. You need to get that looked at."

widened my eyes. The distress suffered from Nicholas' attitude seemed to take second place over my

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my hand against his forehead. "In the name of all the deities in the world, I

hand away in disgust. "I just don't want to be stuck with your ugly mug. It's

soon as I moved my mouth, my cheek throbbed in pain.

I did not give him any answer. I didn't know what to say apart from rejecting

"Watch out!"

then, he jumped toward me and pushed me a few steps backward. A

up my hair and aggravated

belonged

as well. He

got into one of his

car, it

of us

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trying to piece back my broken heart.

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