Chapter 554 – Finding the Secret Daddy for My Baby Novel

Filed To Story: Finding the Secret Daddy for My Baby Novel

Could it be that it was the other way around for them? Did she have to chase him across the mountains?

“Your foot is fine. Can you walk?” Richard asked seriously. Then, he noticed that her shoelaces were untied and placed the flashlight aside before helping her tie them.

Angela, who had her head turned, looked back and down at the man gently tying her shoelace. He clearly cared about her and took care of her in everything he did, but why did he have to look like an emotionless machine?

Did he not know that everything he was doing was making her misunderstand?

After he was done tying her shoelaces, his phone flashed in the dark, indicating that he had received a text. Then, he stretched out his hand and took his phone to check. This phone of his wouldn’t have any spam.

Anything sent to this phone was considered important information.

Yet, when Richard opened the message, it was a series of texts from Annie. Immediately, he frowned as he read through them.

Angela watched him read the texts with a stern face and stretched out her neck curiously to take a look. She wanted to know who had texted him and if it was a beautiful woman.

He noticed that she was poking her head forward and instantly kept his phone in the pocket of his camouflage jacket.

Angela was stunned for a few seconds when Richard instantly kept away his phone like that; were the texts so important that she couldn’t even steal a glance at them?

“Let’s go back!” He stood up and said.

“Was that a girl that texted you?” She raised her head and inquired.

Naturally, he did not need to answer her. Besides, he would call off his engagement with Annie once he returned. So, there was no need for Angela to know about it.

“Since you aren’t denying it, then it must be true! It seems like there are quite a few girls that like you!” Angela exclaimed ast she stood up, swinging the torch around and shining it into Richard’s eyes. Hel reached out his hand and blocked it before saying, “Be careful when you walk.”

She actually did that on purpose because she felt a little uncomfortable that other women were texting him. He was looking at the messages so seriously, and when she glanced at it just now, she noticed it was a long text. That woman might be confessing to him.

And Angela’s guess was correct; Annie did send a long love-sick text to Richard!

Angela was strolling ahead as she was in no rush to go back. On the other hand, Richard was frowning as he trailed behind her. A woman’s heart was like glass; he did not know how he upset her.

As she was walking, she suddenly noticed a big black shadow on the treetops in front of her and scared her out of her wits. She immediately turned around and hugged the man behind her tightly. “T There’s a ghost.”

When he shone his torch in that direction, he saw that it was just a frightened monkey. Nevertheless, Angela still hugged him tightly, wishing she could hang herself on him.

“It’s just a monkey,” Richard lowered his voice and assured her.

At this moment, she also heard the monkey’s cries; that noise in the dark also frightened her. Although she quickly let go of him, she did not dare to go far. Instead, she held onto his hand. “I’m scared. Let’s hold hands and walk.”

She didn’t care whether he was agreeable to her arrangement or not. Nonetheless, she felt that there was still too big of a gap between them when they held hands, so she grabbed his arm instead, her whole body leaning onto his.

Richard let out a sigh when he noticed that she was petrified. Therefore, he pulled away and offered, “I’ll carry you down.”

“Really?” Her eyes immediately lit up since that was what she really wanted.

He didn’t answer with words and merely squatted down in front of her as she made herself comfortable by lying on his back. She felt safe being carried down as she laid onto his broad back.

After that, the two worked together tacitly as Angela illuminated the road for him. It was not an easy task to carry her down the mountain, but Richard didn’t falter the whole time.

Although she enjoyed how he treated her, an envious thought grew in her. She thought that he would only carry one woman on his back in the future and no one else.

“Richard Lloyd, you didn’t answer my question!”

“What question?” Richard cocked his head slightly.

“If another female target who needs your protection suddenly shows up, and if she is young and beautiful, will you treat her like how you’re treating me?” Angela went to great lengths to come up with this hypothetical situation.

He continued to ignore her and walked down the hill, step by step. Angela, who was on his back, stared at him with some resentment. “Is it that hard to answer this question?”

“There’s no need to answer such a meaningless question,” he replied faintly.

“It might not mean anything to you, but it does to me,” she blurted out.

“What does it mean to you?” He questioned quietly.

She was rendered speechless by his blunt response. After all, she had never been in a situation where she would have to confess to a guy first. So, she vaguely said, “You need to answer me first. Would you treat other girls like this as well? Once you’ve answered that, I’ll give you yours.”

This way, she could hear what he had to say first. If he said yes, there was no need for her to answer him.

Unfortunately, Richard remained stubborn and continued to ignore her.

Angela laid her chin on his shoulder as she waited for a moment. When she saw that he was genuinely ignoring her, she took advantage of the dark and that there was no one around to whisper in his ears, “Captain Lloyd, I actually like you quite a bit. Do you like me?”

As soon as she confessed, Angela watched Richard’s side profile as she waited for his answer.

She waited for three seconds, ten seconds, a minute…

Three minutes…

They were already almost at the bottom of the mountain, yet he hadn’t even answered her.

At this point, she had given up. When she noticed that the ground was flat, she couldn’t help but exclaim, “Let me down! I can walk by myself.”

As for Richard, he didn’t reject her and carefully placed her down. Under the moonlight, he locked his sharp eyes onto hers, but no emotions could be seen.

Therefore, she wanted to walk past him silently, but in the next second, her arm was clasped by a firm hand.

Her heart began to thump against her chest. She almost allowed herself to be pulled by his force and into his embrace, but a cold male voice came into her ears in the next second, “Don’t waste your time on me. It is impossible for you and me to be together.”

When she heard this, her face immediately flushed red before she turned pale again. Sure enough, she had been ahead of herself.

This rejection was simple and gave no room for argument.

“To me, you are just someone I need to protect. That’s all. There’s no room to talk about liking each other here,” Richard added..

Angela retracted her hands in embarrassment at his blunt rejection, pursed her lips, and endured a sense of grievance. At this moment, the monkey had returned to the branch next to her. It was probably attracted to the light as he began screeching next to her.

This time, she did not react. Instead, Richard, who was beside her, wrapped his arms around her and pulled her to his side, fearing that the monkey might attack her.

Meanwhile, she lowered her head and looked at the arms that were holding her tightly. She realized that he was just protecting her as part of his job; it didn’t stem from any interest in her.

With her head still lowered, she quickly walked back to the base as she tried to widen the gap between herself and him. This was probably the only way that she would retain her dignity.

This was the first time in her life that her confession to a man was rejected, and her arrogant self-esteem was utterly shattered.

She finally relaxed after she returned to her room and leaned back against the door. Although her face was painted with annoyance, she felt that she had done nothing wrong. She had just confessed to a man that she liked and was rejected. It was normal.

---