“No! No!” Kristie refuted. “I’m afraid of the dark! That was why I asked him to guard me while I slept! Don’t talk nonsense, you little brat!”
With that, she pulled Carl’s ear.
Carl yelped in pain before saying aggrievedly, “You could’ve just switched on the lights, no? You aren’t making sense, Aunt Kristie!”
“Shut up!” Kristie glared at him. “If you keep talking, I’m going to choke you!”
Hearing that, Carl quickly moved away.
Seeing that Rayna was still staring at her, Kristie felt embarrassed. She stomped her feet and complained, “Why are you staring at me? Do you think I’m into him?”
Rayna asked tentatively, “Then why did you—”
“No way!” Kristie retorted, shooting James a side glance. “He’s so old and ugly! Besides, he’s just a bodyguard! How could he ever be worthy of me?”
Rayna wanted to defend her brother, but she didn’t know what to say. She could only glance at James pitifully.
As a matter of fact, there was nothing she could do to help James.
James, on the other hand, didn’t say anything throughout their conversation. Instead, he pulled himself a chair and sat down to watch them eat.
At around eight in the evening, James wanted to bring Kristie away, so he said to Rayna, “I’ll bring her home to rest. Since Mr. York is in the hospital, you should be fine, right, Rayna?”
“Huh?” Kristie was stumped. Why did he address Rayna so? She then forgot about the fact that James was holding her hand when she grumbled, “Why did you address Rayna by her name?”
James quickly came to his senses and replied calmly, “I talk fast, so you must’ve heard it wrong.”
Thinking that she didn’t hear him wrongly, Kristie said, “But I heard—”
Rayna interrupted her by saying, “Kristie, you’ve been staying in the hospital all this while. You need some rest. Go home, okay?”
“I don’t want to go home!” Kristie pouted. “Can’t I just stay here with you and Carl?”
Rayna waved dismissively. “Listen to me. You can come over again tomorrow morning.”
“All right, then. I’ll bring Ms. Winton home now.” James pulled Kristie out of the ward.
Kristie only realized that James had been holding onto her hand after exiting the ward. His palm is so warm, and I’m getting a weird feeling.
She yanked her hand out of his grip. “W-We’re going back, but can you please stay away from me?”
Kristie distanced herself from him while mumbling something to herself.
James was at a loss for words. I haven’t pissed her off recently, right? Why is she acting this way?
Usually, Kristie would sit in the passenger seat. When she went back with James that evening, however, she sat in the back. She would always talk to him back then, but she kept to herself that evening.
James noticed all the changes in her behavior as he drove in silence.
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