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James’ expression darkened instantly. He hadn’t expected her to crash into him-and her hands
There was no way he was letting her keep groping him. He instinctively took a big step back.
But just as he backed away, Lily completely lost her balance. Her body swayed forward, then tipped uncontrollably backward.
Behind Lily blazed a fire, if she fell back onto it, even if this time next year didn’t become the annive of her death, she’d still end up with her face completely scorched.
“Lily”
James hadn’t expected that keeping his distance from her would cause her to lose her balance and tip backward suddenly. He immediately lunged forward and caught her steadily around the lower back..
It was always some ridiculous coincidence.
Because of his sudden movement, she was propped up by his hand and lurched forward, straight into him. Their lips, without warning, pressed together,
James suddenly thought of Leila’s lips-how they had fallen onto his earlier that day.
That moment of dazed distraction made him forget to pull away from the soft, intoxicating sensation.
While the two of them remained tightly pressed together, the stones at the entrance of the cave shifted. Ivan had crawled in.
“This cave entrance is seriously this small?”
He grumbled in frustration as he squeezed through-then froze when he saw what was happening just a few feet away. My older brother, who had always avoided women and insisted on marrying a manly wife, was actually kissing our future sister-in-law?
Earlier today, Ashton had said James was clinging to the hand of some hideous girly-man, and he’d nearly lost faith in the world. But now? James might still be salvageable. Heh! I’ve got to go tell Grandpa right away.
If Grandpa found out that his sword-wielding, stubborn grandson might still turn out straight, he’d be over the moon.
James heard the pervy laugh echoing from the cave entrance.
He was wearing shorts, so it wasn’t like anything inappropriate was exposed; but he wasn’t used to being shirtless around others. Without caring that his clothes were still wet, he quickly threw his shirt on.
That laugh was too suggestive; for a moment, he didn’t recognize it and thought those lunatics had found their hiding spot. Instinctively, he pulled Lily into his arms to shield her.
Only after he held her tight did he realize that laugh sounded pervy and familiar.
He turned toward the cave entrance on instinct, only to see his third brother’s annoying face.
James shot Ivan a glare, and Ivan instantly covered his eyes.
On the way here, he’d really been worried that his big brother might be killed by those lunatics.
Now, seeing his brother alive and well and clearly getting along great with his future sister-in-law, Ivan couldn’t be happier.
The heavy gloom that had hung over him vanished, he returned to his usual sunny, bright self, fullet youthful energy.
He grinned like an idiot as he pecked through his fingers, watching the sweet scene of his big brother and Lily wrapped in each other’s arms.
A moment later, trying way too hard to act innocent, he said, “James, Lily, I totally didn’t see you two kissing just now. I’ve got night blindness; seriously, I didn’t see a thing. You two go ahead, pretend I’m not even here, treat me like air!”
James’ face darkened. If Ivan really hadn’t seen anything, how would he knote our lips had even touched?
Lily hadn’t expected that she and James would end up colliding like that, much less that Ivan would walk in on it.
She definitely didn’t want James’ family getting the wrong idea that he was into her; instinctively, she opened her mouth to explain what had just happened.
But before she could say a word, another big head popped through the cave entrance.
Ashton knew full well how capable James was in a fight; but the group of lunatics behind that club weren’t weak either.
There were too many of them; two fists couldn’t fend off four attacks, and sneak attacks were hard to guard against. When James had called and told him to bring people and wipe them out, Ashton had still heard loud crashing on the other end of the line.
He’d been terrified that James wouldn’t die in a fight-but might get smashed to death.
Or worse-end up in a coma again.
On the way here, his spirits had hit rock bottom. He’d even secretly wiped his eyes a few times.
Now, seeing James alive and in one piece, he was overwhelmed with emotion and excitement. Forget about whether this would annoy his scary big bro-he blurted out happily, “Who’s kissing who? Why didn’t see it?”
Lily went quiet. Why was there nowhere to vanish into?
-She just wanted to curl up and disappear.
“What kiss?”
Trailing behind Ivan was Simon.
Simon had just happened to be eating with Ivan that night.
He never had a great impression of Lily, but he’d always admired and respected James. When he heard James might be in danger, he panicked; of cours,e he came along.
After Ivan and Ashton crawled into the cave. Simon followed close behind.
And the moment he stood up, he saw James and Lily tightly wrapped in each other’s arms.
James was soaking wet, his shirt wide open-everything about the scene invited the imagination to run wild.
Seeing the two of them, one man and one woman alone in a cave all night-he couldn’t help but feel a sharp sting of jealousy, like something sour and bitter had settled deep in his chest.
Without thinking, the words just came out, “What are you two doing?”
He really didn’t like Lily.
But she was his blind date match; he still wanted to try continuing that relationship.
Not to mention, she had already forced a kiss on him, and even peeked at him in the bathroom.
She’d taken all kinds of liberties with him; he couldn’t accept her turning around and doing the same with Someone else.
Lily didn’t want the Luke family to misunderstand James; but she found Simon absolutely insufferable, and his accusatory tone made zero sense. There was no way she was giving him a polite response. She snapped, “None of your damn business!”
“Lily!”
Simon’s face darkened like a thundercloud; his voice turned so cold it could send chills down anyone’ spine. Lily wasn’t the least bit intimidatedl
After punting some distance between herself and James, she snapped, “You’re insane.”
“Simon, show some respect to Lily!”
Ivan usually got along with Simon; but he respected James-and by extension, he respected his future sister-in-law. He couldn’t stand Simon yelling at her like that.
And frankly, he thought Simon was totally ruining the vibe, James was finally showing some signs of straightness, maybe if he and Ashton hyped things up, big bro and sis-in-law right even kies again.
Now with Simon shouting like that, there was no way Lily would be in the mood to kiss big bro again.
The more Ivan thought about it, the more he regretted bringing Simon along tonight, Huffing in frustration, he said, “Lily is right. She and James are husband and wife, legally married and protected by law. They can do whatever they want-it’s none of your business! If you ever disrespect her again, or help Elsa bully her, I swear I’ll make James beat the crap out of you! And I’ll go straight to grandpa and grandma, and tattle so they can beat you up too!”
Ivan, like Grace and the others, always stood by her unconditionally.
His defense warmed Lily’s heart, but a few of his words made her feel a little awkward.
She and James weren’t exactly a proper married couple.
Their relationship was about to lose its legal standing.
Once the divorce cooling-off period ended, they’d be able to finalize the paperwork.
There was no way she could explain all that to Ivan, so she just snuck a guilty glance at James, silently hoping he didn’t misunderstand her intentions.
James gave a cool, indifferent nod. Clearly, he wasn’t about to take Ivan’s nonsense to heart.
“Lily’s not good enough for my cousin!”
Simon still couldn’t shake the image of Lily clinging to James just moments ago; it gnawed at him.
But he was too prideful to let anyone think he actually wanted to keep dating Lily.
His expression was icy as he glancell her way; his voice turned glacial. “My cousin is exceptional. I just don’t want him sullied by a shameless woman like her.”
“Apologize to her, right now!” Ivan’s handsome face flushed red with anger the second he heard Simon call Lily shameless.
James’ eyes also turned ice-cold in an instant.
It was true, he didn’t have romantic feelings for Lily; but that didn’t mean he’d let anyone insult her without cause.
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