Chapter 271

Chapter 271

“I chatted with my friends until late last night, so I decided to just stay over at their place.”

Jeremy bent down and approached Corinne. “What sort of friend? Are they guys or girls? What are

their names? Where do they live?”

His barrage of questions offended Corinne, and she could not help but explode in a rage. “Am I not

allowed to have friends? Or do you mean to tell me that I’m not allowed to have any privacy when I’m

with you? Must I tell you everything in detail? How is this any different from being in prison?”

Jeremy froze slightly, and he narrowed his eyes quietly as he looked at her unhappy, dissatisfied little

face. He smiled rather than got angry at her, and his thin lips pursed slightly as nearly half his fatigue

disappeared in an instant. She seemed to be rather energetic still and had the strength to argue with

him.

He stared at her in silence for a while, but instead of arguing with her, he asked in a sneering voice,

“Where’s your phone? You could’ve called me to inform me if you wanted to stay overnight at a friend’s

house, right?”

At the mention of her phone, Corinne lost some of her confidence and spread her hands open

helplessly. “Sorry.

About your cell phone… I… I lost it last night, and I don’t know where I could’ve dropped it. I’ll buy a

new one of the same model to compensate you.”

It probably fell out during a physical conflict with the female

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internet celebrity the previous day, and she only found out about it when she took a taxi that morning.

Luckily for her, however, she managed to have cash with her.

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Jeremy snorted softly, raised his hand, and took out the very cell phone from his jacket pocket. He held

it up in front of her with his long fingers and tapped it against her forehead. ” You’re going to lose your

brain one day if you keep losing your stuff all the time.”

Corinne blinked unexpectedly, took the phone, and looked at it to confirm that it was the same one she

had dropped by mistake. She raised her head in surprise and asked curiously, What’s going on,

Mister? Why is it with you?”

The man answered concisely, “Someone found it up by the river and handed it over to the police, who

then returned it to its owner.”

‘I see!‘ Corinne nodded and said thankfully, “I’m so glad someone found it! I was worried that someone

might steal the phone. I can’t afford to pay you the huge amount of money that’s tied to your bank

card,” she muttered to herself.

“Corinne,” Jeremy called her name all of a sudden.

“Yes?” Corinne raised her head naturally and waited for him to continue his sentence, but her heart

skipped a beat when she saw his bottomless black eyes.

Jeremy looked at her intently and said to her in a deep voice, It’s never my intention to imprison you, so

you don’t need to be that guarded in front of me.”

Corinne was startled.

His attitude might be stern, but his tone was incredibly gentle

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as he added, “You can have privacy, you can have little secrets that you’re free to keep from me, and

you can have your own social circle, but never, ever, decide not to come back home without informing

me. What if something happens to you?”

As he spoke, his big rough hands caressed her face as his bony long fingers gently brushed against

her delicate cheeks like he just unearthed a long–lost treasure that he could not bear to part with.

He answered her earlier complaints without ignoring her feelings, and he even gave her a very specific

answer and attitude.

His unpredictable and ambiguous attitude made Corinne very puzzled; he sounded like he was

reproaching her while

persuading her with solid reasoning at the same time. ‘Is he too tired? So much so that he’s getting

confused?‘

Jeremy lowered his gaze and stared at Corinne’s small and beautiful face. He looked at her starting

from her eyebrows, then to her nose, and finally to that sharp tongue of hers. It had been a week since

he saw her, and though he did not feel much when he missed her, he could get by with a lit cigarette

and meditating with his eyes closed.

It was only when Jeremy touched her in real life that he realized there was an uncontrollable burning

desire within him. He could not wait for even a second longer as he raised her little face and kissed her

ravishingly.