My One-month Marriage With Mr. Hawkins novel Chapter 43

Ernest knitted his brows, his eyes couldn't hide the pity he felt.

His voice was lowered and it was as soft as it never had been before, "Florence, it's me, everything will be okay."

He wanted to get closer to her, but Florence tried to back away from him.

Florence bit her lips, and said, "Thank you."

She knew that it was Ernest, and she was thankful for him to appear to rescue her, but she didn't know how to face him.

He knew that she raped in the hotel last time, and this time, he saw the security guard sit on her with his own eyes.

She must be a very dissolute woman in his point of view...

A darkness flashed through Ernest's eyes as he clenched his fists silently.

After a while, he said with his deep voice, "Let's go, I will drop you off at home."

He didn't try to get closer to her again.

Only when they left the room, Florence recovered a little bit from the depressing feeling she had.

She wanted to get away from this hut, the further the better, so she started to walk faster.

Ernest was behind her, not too close, but close enough, his eyes were fixed on her back, and his expression complicated.

The way she looked really made him pity her, he wanted to hug her, comfort her, but she pushed him away from herself.

Florence felt very messy inside, she walked so fast that she accidentally stumbled and twisted her ankle.

"Ahh!"

She groaned and fell on the sand.

Ernest quickly caught up with her, "What happened?"

"It's nothing, just my ankle."

Florence said and tried to stand up again, but the pain shot through her foot.

Ernest saw Florence's face turn pale, and his own expression darkened, he reached out to grab her ankle.

"It's injured, you shouldn't walk anymore."

Florence was very annoyed, she felt she was really unfortunate, how could she even get injured by simply walking?

But she couldn't just sit there and wait for an ambulance...

She bit her teeth and tried to get up again, while Ernest pulled her and took her piggyback.

Florence was frozen in surprise when she felt the broad strong shoulders of this man, and his breathing that was so close to her.

"Mr. Hawkins, what are you doing?" She struggled a little, "Please let me down, I can walk by myself."

Ernest had her safely on his back, and went towards the hotel.

His voice was low and delude, "Florence, you are my fiancee now, it's my responsibility to protect and take care of you."

So what he was doing was within the bounds of reason.

But...

Florence didn't feel comfortable, and said with a lowered voice, "We are only pretendign to be engaged, nobody will see us here, you don't have to do this."

Ernest froze slightly, he was somehow annoyed, if he never mentioned about pretending to be engaged when they met, and they really were, there wouldn't be this estrangement between them now.

Ernest's voice was stiff as he spoke, "If we are doing this, we need to do the full program, no matter if people are watching or not."

Florence was speechless, he did his job well.

Florence didn't struggle again as she knew that he only did this to seem a good fiance, since she really wasn't in the condition to walk back to the hotel all by herself.

She hung on his back as her face blushed.

Ernest knew the way and quickly arrived at her room, when they were in front of the door, he said, "Hand me the room key."

Florence took the room key out of her bag and handed it to Ernest, she felt a little doubtful because she never mentioned that she lived there, how did he know?

She couldn't help but to remember the shadow that she saw early in the morning that went into her neighboring room, that looked just like Ernest.

As she thought about that, Florence asked, "Do you stay here as well?"

"Yeah." Ernest answered as he opened the door, "I am in the room next to yours."