James stared straight at her with his deep eyes. She looked back, indifferently.
After a while, he looked away, started his car and said, "No matter how you think, you are doomed to stay by my side for the rest of your life."
Angela didn't respond but cast her eyes on the stream of traffic outside the window.
"I threatened Jessica. She got unpleasant and doubted my pregnancy. Your grandpa may come to us in a few days."
"... You schemed against her?" James turned to her, with a bit strange countenance.
With his reaction, Angela raised an eyebrow and said, "She had schemed against me heaps of times, so I can't respond in kind?"
"Surely you can," just surprising.
James, with the corners of his mouth lifted, spared one hand to pat Angela on her head. "Good job."
Angela had intended to avoid, but at the moment his hand fell on her, she compressed her lips without any further movement.
Meanwhile, his cellphone began to buzz abruptly.
"It's in my trouser pocket on the right." James turned to Angela briefly.
With an "H'm" Angela put her hand in the pocket just when a car was coming near erratically in the opposite direction. James turned the wheel sharply, forcing her to lean in accordingly, with her hand falling to somewhere it shouldn't be.
Magically, that very thing grew from lax to hard in a few seconds.
Angela's body became stiff as well, her hand burning. She turned to James slowly and found him composed as usual as if the man got hardening was not him.
"Good girl, you can go on playing with it as we return home." Seeing her freezing for quite a while, James looked to her.
Angela, " ... "
Being together for so long, he had never referred to her as "good girl", "baby", or "honey". On hearing that unexpectedly, she hadn't got goosebumps as supposed but experienced an inscrutable feeling.
Like ... sweet?
The cellphone was buzzing constantly.
Angela pinched her lips, took out the cellphone. She frowned upon looking at the calling number. "It's your grandpa."
It's sooner than she had expected.
James nodded. She pressed to answer the call and attached the cellphone to his ear.
"Where are you now? Beetle back immediately!" Lawson growled powerfully. Angela could hear it clear even without the speakerphone mood.
James's complexion remained as usual, and he said distantly, "If I walk back like a beetle, I'm afraid grandpa has to wait for me till tomorrow. Are you patient enough?"
"Stop playing at me. I need to see you and Angela in half an hour." Lawson shouted with rage before hanging up.
Angela took the cellphone back and put it into her bag for the moment.
"Have you thought about the consequences of lying to my grandpa?" James asked.
Angela stroked her belly, and said, "It's not a lie now."
"You think the baby in your belly can protect you? If anyone in the Harvey family gets pregnant, then the baby would be irrelevant to my grandpa," James said. "It's good for you to learn to retaliate to Jessica, but you put yourself in danger only to frame her, indicating that you are still not eligible to dealing with her."
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