A Pigeon Pair: Sweetheart, Let's Get Married novel Chapter 88

Was he ... flirting with her now?

Everly felt that she should blow her top, or at least give him some scolding.

But she just couldn't spit it out when she was about to say something.

Maverick maintained stock-still, having Everly dare not to move either.

It was quite tiring to keep supporting that way.

Something between them seemed to have changed.

It was just like... they had completely known each other.

This sounded weird. But as for the fact that she had a five-year-old son, he seemed not to mind it at all. Sometimes, Everly was confused about what Maverick was thinking.

By the way, when was he going to let go of her?

She couldn't bear it anymore. Just as she was about to retreat, Maverick directly grabbed her shoulder to stop her from going away.

Everly blinked her eyes.

Maverick put on a serious face, "Pretended to be asleep and avoided my question, do you know what that means?"

"I don't know what you're talking about. I didn't!"

Though she didn't know what he meant, denying would surely be the right thing to do, she thought.

Everly was flustered at this moment. Therefore, she deliberately avoided eye contact with Maverick.

"You didn't what?"

"Whatever it was, I just didn't."

"You just didn't what?"

"Are you messing up with me? No matter what you are talking about, I just didn't do it! Just let go of me! This is not what a gentleman should do." Everly tried to push away his hand that was pinching her shoulder.

Maverick took advantage to grasp her hand.

It happened to be the hand that had been burned by cigarettes. The scar was still there. He lowered his eyes, trying to hide the self-accusation.

"Sorry," he said suddenly, "It's my fault. I shouldn't have let you get hurt, I will pay attention in the future."

Everly was stunned.

Maverick seemed to realize something and immediately corrected, "No, not paying attention. Such things would never happen again."

Everly didn't know what to say. Her wandering eyes had just come to meet with Maverick's.

Eyes would not lie, right?

She had made contact with Maverick for some time. Most of it, she only saw indifference in his eyes. It seemed that he was not interested in anything.

But now he was staring straight at her with persistence and sincerity in his eyes.

This was the first time that she caught different emotions in his eyes.

Behind those emotions, there was a familiar face.

It was her.

Everly's heartbeat once again went out of control. She felt she was like being hit by an electric shock or something.

"Does it hurt?" Maverick suddenly asked.

It was quite a while before she realized that he was asking about the wound on her hand.

Did it hurt?

Of course, it did.

She nodded subconsciously.

"Are you still afraid?" Maverick rubbed his thumb around her wound.

With him standing so close to her and asking the questions in such a gentle and lingering way, Everly found it hard for her to keep smooth breathing.