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.
Callum walked to the bar counter and began mixing some alcohol. After a while, a rainbow-like cocktail appeared in his hand. He held the glass and walked towards her, saying, ‘Drink it. I remember that you liked this very much.”
Upon mention of that time, a feeling of guilt bubbled up in her heart. She had assumed that this wine would be as mild as fruit wine. Who would have thought she would become so drunk that she would act that way?
Their relationship wouldn’t have been as awkward otherwise.
“No thanks, I’m not thirsty.” She smiled awkwardly
He raised his eyebrows. “I tried so hard to make it, don’t you want it?” He grasped her right hand and pushed the glass into her hand bit by bit, almost forcing 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 the end… I ended up only knowing how to mix this one drink. Isn’t it interesting?”
An indescribable feeling bubbled up in Lillian as she heard these words, and the cocktail in her hand seemed to become extraordinarily heavy.
“Still not drinking it?” His gaze pinned her down.
She pursed her lips. Well, the worst thing that would happen was that she would get drunk. And then….it would be up to him how he would enact his revenge. It was just that… “Our business is not related to my parents. You can take it up with me to vent your anger. You can do whatever you want, but don’t bother my parents.”
He took in her daring expression as if she were ready to sacrifice herself for the greater good. Unbidden, the word “okay” carne tumbling from his thin lips.
Lillian raised her head and knocked back the cocktail in her hand.
The drink was identical to the one before, but her feelings about drinking it then 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.
“Is it good?” he said, looking at her calmly.
“It’s… good.” Her tongue felt thick in her mouth. The taste of the cocktail permeated her mouth fully.
The glass of wine 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? Tell me!”
Perhaps because of that cocktail, she became considerably bolder, and her voice got louder.
With dark eyes, he rumbled, “What you owed me from back then, you will pay me back now.”
She tilted her head and looked at him with her round eyes wide open as if she were thinking of something. “So I can just give back what I owe you?”
“Yes, he answered.
Lillian stood up and shook her head, Perhaps it was because of the alcohol just now that she felt a little dizzy.
This cocktail was indeed as powerful as it used to be.
But at this moment, she had also become daring because it was so potent. She could do things that she couldn’t do under normal circumstances.
Like now, when she was pulling at the zipper of her coat and beginning to take it off.
Callum’s eyes narrowed. A light flashed through them as he watched Lillian’s antics.
Lillian finished taking off her coat. She began peeling off her sweater underneath, then her cotton t-shirt.
“What, you think I want you?” Callum asked coldly.
Lillian blinked. “Oh… that’s right, you hate me so much that you probably… don’t want me anymore. Find someone else, then. Anyway, I owe you one, so I’ll pay you back once.” She hiccuped and continued, “You’ll stop being angry once I repay you.” Her tongue was slightly out of control. She was stumbling over her words.
His face darkened. He approached her and seized her chin with a hand. “What? You would allow anyone to do that kind of thing to you?”
“I’ll just treat it as… being bitten by a dog. If not… how do you want me to pay you back? But… You have to keep your promise… D-Don’t touch my parents. They’re just honest citizens-they’ve never hurt anyone as long as they’ve lived…” She was stuttering and mumbling, but her voice sharpened when she talked about her parents.
He glared at her. This woman was merely trying to protect her parents, after all! Was she afraid he would take out his anger and lay hands on them?
But what he wanted was not what she feared at all.
“Did you ever regret it?” His face moved closer to hers, their lips almost touching. “Have you ever regretted leaving without saying goodbye?”
She stared blankly at the handsome face before her, as beautiful as the dolls she had played with as a child.
“You’re so pretty.” She abruptly smiled and plopped her hands onto his cheeks, her fingers roving restlessly on his face.
Seeing this, he knew that she must be really drunk.
She was as intoxicated as that time before. She had also said the same thing then.
She had also vowed her eternal love for him numerous times, causing him to fall head over heels. If she hadn’t left without saying goodbye the next day, that night would probably have been his favorite memory.
Unlike the ridicule, indifference, and frigid looks he had received from childhood, her eyes were always full of warmth when she looked at him.
