Roxanne had made up her mind to hitch a ride with him. But for some inexplicable reason, a sense of apprehension slithered into her when she laid eyes on the man.
Hence, she stood by the car, incapable of moving.
Clocking her hesitation, Jonathan urged, “Quick, get into the car, Dr. Jarvis.“.
Roxanne snapped back to her senses. Hoping to keep him from noticing any oddity, she nodded impassively and headed toward the passenger seat.
Since she had no choice but to sit in the same car with Lucian, she wanted to minimize her contact with him as much as possible.
Unfortunately, Jonathan had already opened the passenger door when she made to head over and declared, “It‘ll be too cramped with two men sitting in the back. Make do with Lucian, Dr. Jarvis.”
Right after saying that, he bent down and slid into the passenger seat.
In a flash, Roxanne was the only one lest standing outside the car. She stared at the back seat, caught between a rock and a difficult place.
She wasn‘t sure whether she was overthinking things, but everything that happened that night seemed too much of a coincidence.
Jonathan was behaving very strangely as well.
It was as though he had planned everything.
If she hadn‘t known that the man had no idea about her relationship with Lucian, she was almost positive that it was all his scheme.
After standing outside for several seconds, Roxanne bit the bullet and circled over. Swinging open the car door, she got into the car.
When she had settled in, she reflexively glanced at the man beside her.
Lucian seemed to have imbibed a little too much. He appeared rather indolent as he reclined against the seat with a hand propped against his temple languidly. His eyes were closed lightly, and he didn‘t react to her getting into the car.
Seeing that, Roxanne surreptitiously breathed a sigh of relief. She did her best to stick as close to the car window as possible to keep her distance from him.
The car then started moving slowly.
Roxanne furtively rejoiced that she would be alighting from the car before Jonathan so things wouldn‘t be overly awkward.
Unexpectedly, Jonathan exclaimed out of the blue when the car passed an intersection, “I suddenly remember that I‘ve got something to do nearby! Just drop me off here.”
When Roxanne heard that, her heart instantly clenched.
It‘s still a distance away from my place, so I‘d have no choice but to face Lucian if he were to get out of the car here…
At that thought, the urge to do the same seized her.
Regretfully, that would appear too deliberate.
While she was still hesitating, Jonathan had already opened the car door and climbed out of the car. He even prompted Lucian, “I‘m entrusting Dr. Jarvis to you. Make sure to drive her home safely.”
Lucian nodded non–committally.
Then, Jonathan said to Roxanne with a smile, “Remember to text me when you arrive home so that I can put my grandfather‘s mind at ease, Dr. Jarvis.”
Roxanne murmured her acquiescence stiffly.
When the car door had closed, the car continued driving slowly.
Dead silence reigned in the car. One could sense that the atmosphere was entirely different from when Jonathan was present earlier, giving off a sense of an impending storm.
Roxanne was sitting straight, her gaze trained right ahead. She tried her best to ignore the man beside her.
She wasn’t sure whether she was imagining things, but his piercing gaze seemingly locked on her since Jonathan alighted from the car. It had her tensing up subconsciously.
All of a sudden, Lucian’s voice rang out beside her.
“Have I offended you in any way, Ms. Jarvis?”
Relief suffused Roxanne when she heard his voice. She flashed him a detached smile. “Why would you say that, Mr. Farwell?”
Lucian eyed her with a dark look, his voice threaded with displeasure. “If that’s not the case, why are you avoiding me thus, Ms. Jarvis?”.
Frowning slightly, Roxanne feigned ignorance. “When have I avoided you, Mr. Farwell? Precisely speaking, I don’t have much of a chance to meet you since our work doesn’t intersect.”
In other words, they didn’t have a personal relationship besides a professional association.
IesSIona In fact, they even had no interaction at work.
They had no opportunity to meet anyway, so avoiding him made no sense.
The moment her words rang out, the temperature in the car plummeted.
While driving, Cayden cautiously stole a peek at the two people at the back through the rearview mirror. Inwardly, he worried on Roxanne’s behalf.
Why is Ms. Jarvis provoking Mr. Farwell when she knows full well that he‘s in a bad mood now?
As he was fretting, he noticed Lucian lowering the partition in the back seat.
He silently retracted his gaze, not daring to observe the situation in the back anymore.
When Roxanne saw Lucian lowering the partition without warning, her heart lurched. She instinctively twisted sideways and plastered her back against the car window to put some distance between them.
Glimpsing that, Lucian narrowed his eyes in chagrin and questioned icily, “Roxanne Jarvis, why are you shying away from me in such a manner How when you said I hadn’t offended you in any way? Are you afraid that I’d bite?”
A frown marred Roxanne’s countenance, and fainht wariness showed in her eyes. In a distant tone, she explained, “I merely feel that we’re not that close with each other, and your action was rather: sudden to me, Mr. Farwell.”
At the sight of her wary expression, Lucian smirked scornfully. “What do you think I’m planning to do?”
Roxanne said nothing, but their kiss at the hotel when they first bumped into each other after her return to the country flashed across her mind.
That was the only time he took the initiative with me since we got acquainted. Alas, it was when I no longer needed it.
The current situation was inexplicably similar to the circumstances back then.
Lucian stared at her with a dark look, a storm brewing in his eyes.
Ever since we parted ways at the café back then, she had been avoiding me. That aside, she even had her housekeeper send Archie and Benny to the kindergarten and pick them up. It‘s only today that I‘ve got a chance to see her again, thanks to Jonathan making up an excuse. But she has been distancing herself from me the entire night, unwilling to even utter a single word to me!
He initially thought he could understand her thoughts, but he merely felt livid after seeing her for real and experiencing her treatment of him.
His plan had been to vent by drinking, but the alcohol coursing through his veins was only fanning the flames within him.
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.
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