My One-month Marriage With Mr. Hawkins novel Chapter 442

Sensing that Stanford was studying her and Clarence, Florence felt a bit guilty.

She didn’t dare to let Stanford learn about Clarence’s real identity for the time being, because she was afraid that it would not help to eliminate their grudges and instead it would bring some other misunderstandings.

Florence didn’t dare to stay close with Clarence and moved aside. She also shifted her gaze away from Clarence.

She changed a topic, “Come on, let’s play the cards.”

Looking at the cards in his hand, Stanford slightly furrowed his brows and his handsome face became a bit stiff.

Just now Florence and Clarence mocked at Benjamin for not being able to play the game ‘Fight the Landlord’ and embarrassed Benjamin a lot.

Stanford felt delighted when watching the scene, but now…

As a matter of fact, Stanford also didn’t know how to play this card game, then wasn’t him also a rookie who was even inferior to a three-year-old kid?

Stanford held the cards stiffly. After hesitating for several seconds, he threw the cards onto the bed.

“Now that we’ve driven Benjamin to leave, we don’t need to play this game now. It’s late. Flory, you should go to bed now.”

Florence pressed her lips together. It turned out that Stanford had seen through her small trick.

At the very beginning, she asked Phoebe to play cards together on the spur of the moment and regarded it as an excuse for her to come to Clarence’s bedroom at night.

But now, when the four of them were sitting on the bed in a circle, it looked harmonious.

It seemed like this was a rare opportunity to close the gap between Stanford and Ernest.

Therefore, with a smile on her face, Florence pulled Stanford back to the bed again.

“Stanford, actually it’s still early now. I can’t fall asleep even if I come back now. It’s not easy for four of us to be together, oh please, please accompany us to play the game. It will not last long.”

Her voice was soft and cute, and it sounded like she was begging him cutely.

Stanford’s heart softened.

Stanford had never refused Florence’s request. Moreover, ever since he forcibly separated Florence and Ernest before, Florence had been indifferent to him. Now Florence invited to play card game together…

It was really hard for Stanford to refuse this.

He hesitated for a while and then nodded his head, “All right. But…”

He paused and then said in a stiff tone, “But I don’t know how to play ‘Fight the Landlord’.”

Florence was delighted when Stanford agreed to play the game with them. But her smile became stiff at the next moment.

Her brother, who seemed to be capable in everything, didn’t know how to play ‘Fight the Landlord’?

No wonder that he was so anxious to leave just now.

Florence felt a bit awkward. When she was about to propose playing the other game that the four of them all knew how to play, Phoebe’s voice sounded, “Chinese people like to play ‘Fight the Landlord’. But Mr. Fraser, you grew up in a foreign country and it’s normal that you don’t know how to play this game. I guess that you may not have heard of it, right?”

Her words relieved Stanford’s embarrassment.

Stanford looked towards Phoebe in surprise as he hadn’t expected that she would rescue him from the embarrassment.

When Benjamin was embarrassed before, they were all watching at the show like onlookers, but when now it was his turn, Phoebe stood out to relieve his embarrassment and found an excuse for him. Was this the so-called double standards?

Stanford felt a gush of weird feeling in his chest, but it felt good.

“This card game is very easy. Mr. Fraser, let me explain it to you, you will get hang of it soon.”

With some cards in her hand, Phoebe moved towards Stanford and sat near him.

The moment she came close to him, Stanford’s nose was greeted by the light feminine fragrance from her body.

Stanford was a bit stunned when he turned his head and saw Phoebe who was only several centimeters away from him.

Expect for his mother and Florence, he had never been so close to the other person.

Stanford immediately wanted to move away from Phoebe. But Phoebe leaned towards him with some cards in her hand and explained how to ‘fight against the landlord’ in a gentle and pleasant voice.

Stanford became stiff when seeing that Phoebe was explaining it to him intently.

Florence immediately blushed. She shot him a glare and moved aside shyly and annoyingly.

Stanford had good learning ability. Phoebe simply explained the key points to him and he got hang of the game so quickly.

He straightened his back and said with a serious expression, “Let’s get started.”

He fixed his eyes on the cards in front of him and he looked so serious as if he was going to do something important.

Florence was amused. It turned out Stanford would have such a reaction when he felt awkward. He looked really cute at the moment.

Phoebe was the most active player. She immediately collected the cards on the bed, shuffled the cards and then dealt them.

Then the game finally began.

The ‘Fight the Landlord’ game would separate the four players into two groups. Moreover, they knew who the landlord for every round was, yet didn’t know who their teammates were. They had to guess it and of course, they could mislead the other players.

The rules for this game were not complicated. Although it was the first time for Stanford to play this game, he knew about the basic rules.

But it was not that easy for a rookie to get hang of the techniques for this game.

Therefore, in the first round in which Phoebe and Stanford were teammates, they lost the game because of Stanford’s mistakes.

Looking at her cards, Phoebe whined, “Oh, I really can’t accept this. We should win this game.”

Stanford also knew that they lost the game because of him and felt a bit uneasy.

He said in a deep voice, “I’m sorry.”

“I didn’t blame you. It’s your first time to play this game and it’s normal that you’re not experienced in this.”

Phoebe consoled him and subconsciously patted his shoulder.

Stanford was stunned and his expression turned gloomy.

How could she pat his shoulder casually?