227 Cordially (1/2)

Lei Xinyi narrowed her eyes at him as if assessing his very soul, she ran a hand through her silky hairs in thought then turned to him with a sweet smile, ”What do you think I am? Half-baked?”

Her smile slipped only to be replaced by a snarl, ”Cordially, my ass!”

She bowed her arms on her chest and glared at him accusingly for trying to reel her in her own tricks, ”All you are going to do is, take me to some secluded place and hang me up-side down to be thrown in a well! I am not an idiot nor delusional to imagine a five star hotel waiting for me after…doing what I did!”

”Smart, aren't you?” His smirk deepened with darker hue to it, ”So Smarty pants, answer me. Do you think I need your permission to take you anywhere?”

More than a rhetorical question, it was a taunt. For a moment Lei Xinyi face bleached to be devoid of color before a darkening color took over her facial.

She leaned forward as if going to tell him a secret and her voice dropped some chords in a cryptic way, ”Do you know who I am?” She garnished her words with a smirk equally malice in fervor.

Li Yuan smirk didn't falter instead he leaned forwards and took a hold of her silky strand of Chocolate Black hair between his fingers. He smiled at them, just as velvety soft as he remembered them to be.

He contemplated whether he should share his discoveries or not. Lei Xinyi looked between him and his finger caressing her hair in cynicism.

'Why did he look so relaxed…? Why wasn't he wary of her identity?' Lei Xinyi confidence wavered as the humming silence between them charged with suggestiveness.

She wanted to scurry away but didn't want to appear puny or subservient. So she stood her guard with alertness. In that moment of silence Lei Xinyi registered the scorching threat the man was.

Li Yuan finally met her gazed and his smirk deepened meaningfully, he draped his arm around her waist, and she stiffened but didn't otherwise flinch.

She was trying to present that his presence didn't bother her and she wasn't petrified of him. But her uneven short pants of breath and frantically poignant eyes gave her away.

Li Yuan leaned downward till he was close to her ear and whispered in a sensual voice that should be used only in luring lovers in, ”Born in China, brought up in North-Korea…” he took a pause to observe her unique orbs presenting her surprise, ”Siren or better said…Lei Xinyi.”

Lei Xinyi froze, she couldn't believe he knew her real name and about her origin. Not everybody could link her to her Underworld name Siren…

But then her astonishment turned biter, the man she was dangling in the arms of was the King of Underworld, sure he could get any information he liked…and then when she would have disappeared the Yu's would have claimed to know her!

She pushed away from him harshly and shouted, ”So you did a background check on me?!”

Her shock and disbelief was at once channeled, she sneered out of sizzling rage burning in her. She was shivering by the anger buzzing in her, ”How sweet of you!”

Her sarcasm wasn't unnoticed by him. It hurt him to see her this livid with betrayal written on her face, when he should be the offended party here.

It was understood that he had breached her privacy but he did it in the time, she was literally wiped off Earth, he hadn't slept a single night without crooning his woes to her even when he knew she wasn't listening or responding.

He was even drunk at the moment but her presence was assisting him fighting the refuge to cataleptic abyss of his dreams.

Li Yuan at once pulled her back in, causing her to fall on his hard chest face-first, she struggled but he caressed her head softly with his one arm wrapped on her waist and whispered, ”My Little Raven, be grateful.”

Lei Xinyi snorted and looked up at him with her narrowed hooded cat-like eyes, Li Yuan hand caressing her hair reached to her cheek and caressed it, ”I have come to help you out of this rat-hole and the 'curfew' you are in.”

Lei Xinyi couldn't hold back the sneer of pure mock, ”Let me guess, you want me reveal to you the deepest, darkest secret of the Lei Family so let me be a disappointment,” She cackled in sarcasm, ”I left the Lei family years ago and even their ancestors graves would have relocated by now!”

Li Yuan threw his head back and laughed, ”No, Sweetheart. I have no interest in people who are soon to be perished. Instead I want to help you.”

Lei Xinyi stilled and frowned her brows in an intensive thought, 'Now what was this bullsh*t?! He, the man she unintentionally made a fool out of wanted to help her? Un-f*cking-believable!'

She was about to shout nonsense when a thought struck her, 'He was one hell of a catch. If she was able to make a bargain with him, the Yu's, Lu's and those lousy Underworld men would be something like rubber bullets. But she was treading on thin ice…she needed to assess the situation better.'

Li Yuan saw her contemplating a battle in her pretty little head but didn't disturb her thought process, instead he admired her glazed eye and pouting lips, that looked served to be savored but he held himself back.