Filed To Story: A Second Chance with My Billionaire Love
“You said if I die, you won’t be able to live anymore.”
“Of… of course I wasn’t serious!”
Flossie continued to deny it. “The atmosphere was building up to that. If I didn’t say that, it would seem like I have no conscience.”
“Is that so?”
Halston gave Flossie a meaningful look.
When the green light came on, Flossie thought he would put down the handbrake, but his large hand instead grasped hers tightly…
Flossie froze. She looked at Halston with puzzled eyes, not daring to move an inch.
Her fair cheeks were blushing so hard that it was visible to the naked eye.
What… What’s the meaning of this?
Halston seemed quite at ease. He looked straight ahead and said faintly, “Sorry, grabbed the wrong thing.”
After that, he moved his hand to the gear lever and smoothly adjusted its position from neutral to drive.
The sports car whizzed along the road.
It moved fast, like Flossie’s heartbeat!
She only realized after a long time that she… just got teased?
“Halston, did you just flirt with me?” 1
Flossie tilted her head to the side to look at the man who was focused on driving. Her cheeks were puffed with anger, looking like a little squirrel. It was very cute.
Halston raised his eyebrows and stared at the woman with a smile on his face. Instead of answering, he asked, “What do you think?”
Flossie rubbed her chin and, after thinking about it carefully, said with a serious expression, “I think you’re flirting with me, but your flirting skills are terrible!”
If he wanted to hold her hand, he should have just done it.
Grabbed the wrong thing? Why didn’t he say he was blind instead?
Seeing him purse his lips without saying anything, Flossie continued to ridicule him fearlessly. “I thought you specifically asked your good friend for advice on courting women? Why are your skills still so terrible? You must not be very bright!”
Halston’s handsome face had gone stiff. He said coldly, “Xavier Stuart, how dare you sell me out? You’re gonna pay for this! ”
He already found it embarrassing enough that he had to ask for advice on courting women at his age, but that stupid Xavier actually went and told his target everything, embarrassing him even further!
However, speaking of Xavier, Halston’s handsome face immediately became serious. He asked, “How is that idiot doing? I heard from the paramedics that his injury’s pretty serious.”
Flossie also seemed worried, “It is pretty serious. An air-con box fell on his right leg and broke his calf bone. It only happened because he tried to save me. I don’t even know how I can repay him…”
“You don’t have to!”
Halston suddenly tightened his long fingers on the steering wheel. He sounded displeased as he chastised her, “Don’t take responsibility for everything. If he asks you to give yourself to him, are you really gonna give yourself to him?”
“What are you saying? He’s Xavier. How could he possibly ask that? 11
Flossie looked at Halston with a confused face.
She could not understand why this guy was getting angry at her again for no apparent reason.
Xavier was her savior, and she wanted to repay his kindness. What’s wrong with that?
The atmosphere inside the car suddenly became somewhat tense, as if a storm was brewing. Neither of them spoke.
Flossie did not know where Halston was taking her and she did not bother asking.
She thought the temperamental man was like a ticking time bomb that could explode at any moment. She was an idiot for feeling moved for a brief instant earlier!
After a long time, Halston finally broke the silence. “Don’t you understand that there can be no debt of favors between men and women? If anyone has to repay this kindness, it should be me!”
“You…”
Flossie froze.
It was getting quite late. The car sped forward, passing through rows of street lamps. Under their dim illumination, Halston’s handsome and defined features alternated between bright and dark, unpredictable just like his deep and complex mind.
She was really baffled by him. Since there could be no debt of favors between men and women, and if he repaid Xavier’s favor for her, how should she repay him, then?
Flossie turned her attention to the scenery outside the window. It was only then that she realized the road they were on was the one leading to the Guajardo Villa.
She immediately yelled, “Stop the car! I don’t want to go back to the Guajardo Villa!”
The Guajardo Villa was a cage that had imprisoned her for four years. It was a place filled with hope and disappointment, causing her endless humiliation. She did not want to step foot in that place ever again.
Halston naturally did not stop the car. He said coldly, “The Ellsworth Residence has been reduced to rubble. If you don’t go back to the Guajardo Villa, where else can you go?”
“Anywhere, as long as it’s not the Guajardo Villa!”
Flossie’s attitude was firm. “I can rent or buy a house. The world is big. There’s definitely somewhere I can stay! ”
“That will be unnecessary!”
Halston’s attitude was also very firm. “You still own half the property rights to the Guajardo Villa, which means it’s also your home. In a few days, I’ll transfer the other half of the property rights to you. After that, it’ll be completely yours. You can then do whatever you want with it. You can live in it or you can sell it, I don’t care.”
Since he had said that much, Flossie decided not to argue with him any further.
After all, the Guajardo Villa was worth over a hundred million dollars. Halston was just casually giving her a hundred million dollars. If she kept complaining, it would feel a bit ungrateful.
However, Flossie still retorted faintly, “That’s not what you said when you drove me away.”
“What did you say?”
Halston asked coldly. It seemed he did not hear her clearly.
Flossie quickly shook her head and said, “Nothing. I said the Guajardo Villa is very nice and very big. I really like it.”
“That’s more like it.”
Halston did not pursue the matter and shifted his attention back to driving.
After Jessanna Ximenez left, the Guajardo Villa had finally become peaceful again.
What surprised Flossie the most was that the garden that used to be filled with roses was now filled with sunflowers again. They were blooming as brightly as the sunflowers in the Ellsworth Residence, just the way Flossie liked it.
The servants that used to be mean to Flossie all ran forward to greet her when they saw her return. Some of them even wept with joy.
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