Chapter 274 - Thin face (1/2)

”I can do it, Brian, it's fine,” Rachel said as she tried to get around his back, however, Brian would not let her and instead used his body as a wall to block her from doing anything around the vicinity of the sink.

”Rachel,” Brian said and Rachel stopped her fidgeting. Brian turned around and pressed her against the sink. Rachel just looked at him nervously, she couldn't help but be nervous as she thought that she had probably made him mad.

Brian looked into her eyes and when he saw how nervous she looked his gaze softened. He tried his best to be as gentle as possible but it didn't seem like she has been able to be at ease with him. They hadn't talked about her past relationships and he hadn't pushed her to talk about them either.

He believed that it was quite a sensitive topic and she should open up about it at her own time, but from what he had gathered so far was that they were not pleasant, seeing how nervous she got when she thought he was mad or whenever he looked like he was displeased about something made him worried.

He didn't know how bad it was previously and even though he could investigate about it, he would rather not as he thought it would be better if she told him everything herself when she was ready. If he did carry out an investigation and she found out about it later it might cause her to have a negative reaction because it would seem like he was trying to be controlling.

”Rachel” Brian called again and held her chin between his damp fingers. Rachel involuntarily shivered as his skin felt cool against hers.

When she looked into his eyes she was met by his dark gentle gaze. She could never get over how intense his gaze usually was and his pitch-black eyes looked like a dark and bottomless calm lake. She felt herself slowly calm down and she realised that she must have been acting off.

Rachel felt bad for projecting her past experiences on to him and was also embarrassed by her behaviour. She bit her lip and looked down at her hands out of embarrassment.

”Come here sweetheart,” Brian said and wrapped his strong arms around her. Rachel relaxed in his embrace and hugged him back.

She felt him kiss the top of her head and he continued to hold her for a few more seconds. Even when he pulled back Rachel continued holding on to his strong arms. She looked at his tattooed arms which never seize to fascinate her before she looked up at him.

Brian smiled and kissed the top of her head again. He was tempted to ask her to talk about what she was thinking but he thought that it was probably too soon so he refrained from doing so.

”Just finish unpacking, I'll come for you as soon as you're done,” Brian said and watched as she turned around to leave obediently. He couldn't stop himself from teasingly smacking her rear making her jump in surprise.

Rachel glared at him but the effect was completely lost because of her reddened face. Brian chuckled in amusement as he watched her rush out of the kitchen as if he was going to do it again.

Rachel walked into her room and looked at the nearly empty suitcases. She didn't have much trouble unpacking since she had arranged her clothes accordingly in her suitcases so she just had to move them to the closet, with the exception of the clothes that she needed to hang.

It didn't take her long since she didn't have much to do anyway. She quickly finished unpacking and placed her suitcases in a corner of the large walk-in closet. She then went to take a shower since she had sweated quite a bit in the past few hours. Unfortunately, she had completely forgotten that Brian was still around.