Filed to story: A Second Chance with My Billionaire Love
Who else would I come for?”
Halston stayed silent, and simply stared at her with a meaningful look in her eyes.
Flossie lost her patience, and glanced at her surroundings before quietly saying, “I’ve cried and begged-l’ve prostrated myself as much as I can, so please, haven’t you had enough?
Let him go, or you’ll suffer too if I expose you.”
“So, you’re done with crying and begging… and now you’re threatening me?” Halston folded his legs and smiled meaningfully, twirling his glass of tequila and taking a sip of it. “Don’t you know what the price for threatening me is?”
Flossie rolled her eyes at the man’s love of being dramatic-what else could it be other than another round of bickering?
“I don’t want to cause a scene, and no one wants word of this to get out,” she retorted staunchly. “But if you insist, I don’t mind knocking your teeth out!”
Halston was surprisingly not upset, and actually teased her, “That actually rhymes. Maybe you’re working part-time as a rapper?”
Flossie was speechless-when did he become so cringeworthy?! That was the worst joke she’d ever heard!
“Since you came for Jovan, I’m curious to ask-how far would you go for him?” There was a gleam in Halston’s eyes as he looked at her. Truthfully, he had no idea where Jovan was, but he was still curious about how far she would go for Jovan.
Flossie was no fool, however, and sneered, “Judging from that question, I guess you’re not letting him go unless you get to mess with me?”
Halston raised a brow. “That’s one way to put it, yes.”
Flossie suppressed her rage and asked calmly, “Then, tell me-what form of harassment would it take for you to be satisfied?”
She would stick to what she said before-she did not want to cause a scene, and would resolve the issue as subtly as possible. After all, beneath the appearance of their current enmity was their complicated past—it hit too close to home, and she would rather keep everything buried in the past where no one would find it.
“You love Jovan, don’t you?” Halston asked Flossie, resting his chin on his hands.
Flossie stayed silent and scowling. Anyone else would not hurt her if they asked that question. But it had to be Halston, and it made her throat tighten. After all, she could never tell the man before her that it was he whom she would love for all eternity!
However, Halston took Flossie’s silence for admission, and his sharp gaze turned cold. Even if he did not want to admit it, he knew very well that he was very upset at that moment. He did not know what he was upset about, but it was clear that he was!
And like an obstinate child who refused to lose, he was bent on interrogating the woman for the truth.
“I can see that you love him very much. Is that why you eloped with him, and betrayed me?”
The memories he lost had been an inner demon that hounded him relentlessly. He knew he should let sleeping dogs lie, but he simply could not resist!
It would be best if he could remember everything!
Flossie was so tired that she decided to just give up and claim responsibility for everything.
“If you say it’s true, then it must be true. You don’t have to hold out hope for me because I’m obviously blindsiding you so that I can be with Jovan. I only cared for you to silence my conscience, so come at me if you still bear a grudge-don’t hurt Jovan, he’s just an innocent victim I manipulated!”
“Come at you?!” Halston snorted in disdain, slowly rising to his feet and walking up to Flossie.
“Do you know what’s the worst torment for a woman?”
“I’m sorry, but I’m inexperienced when it comes to being a sicko,” Flossie replied with an impassive look. She knew that he probably hated her to the bone, and must have thought of hundreds of ways to torment her.
But it was fine-was she not fortunate if her sacrifice could be traded for everyone’s happiness?
“I guess I can tell you…” Halston said with a vague smile, putting a hand around her waist and pulling her towards him. He leaned down and murmured in her ear viciously, “It’s by having her spread her legs for another man even though her heart belongs to another… to put it plainly, sleep with me.”
Flossie did a double take, and whispered, “You’re sick.”
If she remembered correctly, Jovan said that before too-there were times when she wondered if Jovan possessed Halston after the transfusion and passed on his deviant tendencies. Why else would he seem to mimic
Jovan so often?
“Is that a yes?” Halston was trying to probe Flossie to see how far she would go for Jovan, only to have her react nonchalantly.
For some reason, that left him feeling mysteriously dejected.
It was certainly weird-he was the one in control here, so why did the woman before him remain inscrutable?
“Or perhaps you’re affording me the chance to say no, Mr. Guajardo?” Flossie suddenly smiled, remaining calm even as she provoked Halston.
“No!” Halston snapped, his stern glare making him look as if he wanted to devour her. “You don’t get to say no!”
And with that, he led Flossie out of the Bar of Fame as everyone looked on, holding her slender wrist as he pulled her to his sports car and jammed his foot on the pedal.
He never said a word as he drove.
Flossie had no idea where he was going to take her or what he was going to do to her, so she did not ask. There was no escape now that she had fallen into his hands-she could only hope that he would not hurt more innocents after he had enough fun and cooled off, so that everything could come to a stop.
Meanwhile, Halston drove out of the bustling city center to a quiet beach.
Flossie had been uncomfortable at first, but that feeling slowly faded since it was a very long journey. All she felt was weariness, and her eyelids grew heavy…
Halston simply kept steering the car through the coastal roads. To be honest, he did not have a destination. He just wanted to keep driving forward with her in his car, ideally for all eternity.
Ocean waves could be heard on both ends of the road, and the stars were exceedingly bright. Anyone would be happy to feel the sea breeze brushing against their face.
Why the romance, damn it?! He was supposed to be tormenting her!
And yet, said romance soon disappeared due to a certain sound…
Hearing the rhythmic snoring, Halston turned around to find that Flossie was fast asleep without a care. Furious, he spun the steering wheel and jammed his food on the brakes.
As the car came to a screeching halt at the turn on a coastal zone, Flossie immediately jolted awake and reached for the car door handle, looking around in panic, “Argh! What happened?! Was there an earthquake?!”
She saw that the car had stopped by the beach, enveloped in darkness and silence—
danger seemed to lurk everywhere.
Meanwhile, Halston opened the window to let the fresh breeze in, looking up at the starry sky above.
“Carefree, aren’t you?” He scoffed flatly as he lit himself a cigarette, exhaling a puff of smoke. “Someone who knew better would know you’re due for punishment, but those who don’t would think that you’re here to sightsee.”
Embarrassed, Flossie hastily tidied her appearance and cleared her throat.” Sorry I wasn’t taking this seriously. Should I be more worried about not meeting your expectations? If that won’t do, I could cry for you again…”
As soon as she said it, she started bawling, “Please, I’m begging you, Mr. Bigshot CEO. Let me go, I won’t do it again… Please don’t torture me anymore…”
Halston breathed another puff of smoke in frustrated silence-she really would be the death of him!
“See? That reaction was fantastic but you refused to play along. How am I supposed to do this?” Flossie kept flirting with him, but the fact that the man refused to play along made things awkward.
One could never cook without ingredients-how was she going to achieve anything if she was forced to match this stoic guy?
“You can shut up now,” Halston growled through the smoke-this woman was brazenly messing around even though her doom was at hand!
“Fine, you’re the boss. You said to shut up, so I’ll shut up.” Flossie reclined against her seat and kept her mouth shut-she had no choice but to be fully compliant. Maybe if she managed to cajole Halston, he would not keep harassing her and Jovan, or even take her to the beach in the middle of the night, just to make her watch him smoke.