For example, he will let someone control her. For example, Leo feeds her to drink it. According to Leo’s character, it’s probably the second. Claire thinks it may be another extreme way.
The process isn’t so good that Claire doesn’t want to think about it. She pouts and thinks it is just a cup of coffee. She just watched Leo drink it with her own eyes. There will be nothing unclean.
In that case, she dare to drink it.
Claire raises her eyebrows and steps forward. She picks up the coffee and takes a sip. The coffee is a little hot so she can’t finish it all at once.
Claire takes the coffee and says to Leo, “I’m going out.”
“No,” Leo declines Claire’s offer directly. He raises his chin and points to the sofa and says, “you have to drink this coffee in my sight.”
“...” Claire looks at the sofa. She is angry but she doesn’t show it.
Claire thinks that she can take this opportunity to have a rest anyway. She can be lazy. Why does she flinch?
Claire walks to the sofa with her coffee. She drinks coffee and occasionally reads the newspaper on the tea table. Claire ignores Leo.
It seems that Claire is the only one in the world who dare to be so reckless in front of the boss.
Leo doesn’t care when he sees Claire like this. He continues to work but he looks at Claire from time to time.
Claire finishes her coffee and stands up and walks straight to the door. Leo is aware of Claire’s intentions. He stops her. “Wait a minute.”
Hearing this, Claire stops again. She looks at Leo in silence and wonders what he is going to do.
Leo raises his head from the pile of papers without expression. He takes a look at Claire and orders, “make me another cup of coffee.”
Claire raises her eyebrows when she hears Leo. So that’s why he calls her?
After Leo finishes, he continues to lower his head and work. It seems that nothing just happened.
Claire turns and leaves.
Before she gets to the door, Leo’s low voice rings behind her. “Listen, if this coffee is as bad as that one, you have to finish it alone.”
“...” Claire stops.
Threat! This is absolutely a naked threat!
Leo is criticizing her behavior in a roundabout way. If Claire still does what she just did, she will have to finish her coffee. She may feel sick. If she doesn’t drink it, Leo has thousands of ways to force her to drink it.
Claire realizes for the first time that she can’t get angry with Leo.
Claire stands there and gets angry for a while. She soon calms down and walks out of the office.
Before long, Claire makes a new cup of coffee and comes back. Leo takes a sip and praises it with satisfaction. Yes, it is the taste he likes.
Comments
The readers' comments on the novel: Genius Son Sells his Mom to Dad
The storyline could have been better -- organization and cohesion of episodes could stand improvement, ending could have been more definitive resolving the many conflicts between the protagonists. Of course, the despicable treatment of Leo towards Claire initially, e.g., selling her off in an auction and giving her to the madam of the club as princess is inhuman and a violation to the wife's rights and honor. I was wondering why she did not leave after these maltreatments. Oh, well, the conclusion [if the narrative ends in Chapter 488] is quite disappointing and anti-climactic. Thank you just the same....
The end of the story is wanting, considering how the episodes build up to conflict after conflict and concluding in yet another conflict. But then c'est la vie! Thank you....