Chapter 24: Let Me Go! (1/2)

The broad shadow of the man rested upon Lu in her slumber, under the dim light of the office at midnight. She snoozed with her rosy cheeks laid on her arm. Her tousled hair scattered across the desk, covering half of her sleeping face.

Huo Yunting, as soon as he reached his muscular arms to embrace her, froze upon a shudder his wife made. The grimness of his expression increased, “It’s cold at night and she did not have her coat, now she’s sleeping here with the door wide open, is she plotting a sick leave tomorrow?” He snorted, as he took off his coat, gently he intended to place it over her, till…

“Chen…”

Very softly the sleeping beauty muttered.

If it was not for the dead silence of the office and their almost negligible distance between each other, he would never have been able to perceive such name, of a stranger, obviously man, coming from his woman.

Chen???

Who’s Chen?

Who’s that?

He inched towards her, only to see the dried stream of tears over her revealed cheek, behind the strands of hair that stuck on it.

She cried before, it seemed like an awful one too.

How dare she cried for other men!?

Huo Yunting was not really delighted of this discovery, as the coat was then flung to the ground the moment he lifted his woman like an angered caveman, heading back to his own cave.

On the way walking back to his office, Huo lowered his head to observe the woman in his embrace. Twitched, he realized it was not a simple flow of tears, as he saw her eyes were completely swollen.

What man was so worthy crying so hard for?

He was displeased, very displeased.

The door to his office was slammed open with a soccer kick, the thunderous sound shocked Lu awake, who found herself in the devil’s embrace.

When did he come back?

Why is he carrying me?

And he looks… pretty mad…

But then she recalled the bit of her dream, it was a nightmare, a heart-wrenching episode that distracted her from the upcoming intimacy.