My Child and I Married a Billionaire novel Chapter 230

Chapter 230: Chapter 230: Gentleman

The girl was at a complete loss for words, but she knew she was no match for him. There was no point in resisting, so she could only lower her eyes submissively and accept it.

The e-scooter swayed and wobbled, finally reaching the vicinity of her house just before the battery died completely. Twisting the throttle did nothing anymore. The girl glanced back at Zeke Walton.

Before, they were either rushing or the light was too dim for her to get a clear look at him.

She only knew that he was tall and thin, with a young-sounding voice and a youthful silhouette.

Her preconceived notion of him had already made her unconsciously label him a bad guy.

But now, turning to look at him under a bright streetlight near her home, she was suddenly struck by how stunning Zeke Walton was.

Sitting one behind the other on the scooter, their faces were only twenty or thirty centimeters apart. She could clearly see his thick, long eyelashes, his large, deep-set eyes, his high-bridged, sharp nose, and his full, ruby-red lips.

Paired with skin as fair and smooth as tofu... ’Is this really a man? He’s more beautiful than most women.’

The girl stared, dumbfounded. Two phrases surfaced in her mind: "pale-faced scholar" and "Gentleman."

If she hadn’t met him under such circumstances—in any other situation, really—she would have found him completely unapproachable because of that face. But now... ’My feelings are a tangled mess.’

While the girl was looking at him, Zeke Walton was also looking at her.

He realized that not only was this girl not from around here, but she also appeared to be from an ethnic minority.

Her features were deep-set and pronounced, with the distinct characteristics of an ethnic minority group.

With features like hers, she would surely be lively and vibrant when happy. But tonight, she had been terrified the entire time. Her eyes now held a mix of panic and sorrow, making her look like a tragic beauty lost in thought.

Zeke Walton never expected that the first time in his life he played the villain, his victim would be such a beautiful young woman. His conscience pricked him.

"Why’d we stop? What are you looking at me for?"

His words snapped the girl back to reality. She pointed at the dashboard.

"The battery’s dead. It won’t go anymore."

’So she’s telling me to get lost.’

Zeke Walton took the hint and swung his leg off the e-scooter. "Got it. What time is it? Can you check how far it is to the bar?"

The girl pressed her phone screen in front of him. It was already past one in the morning, and the bar was still 9.8 kilometers away.

"Fuck," Zeke Walton cursed under his breath.

’It’s still that far!’

He didn’t want to bully the girl, but reality was harsh, so he brazenly made his request.

"Call a car for me. It’s too far, I can’t walk that."

The terror in the girl’s eyes was suddenly replaced by confusion. "What do you mean, ’call a car’ for you?"

"Call a taxi to come pick me up. Give me your phone number. Don’t worry, I’ll pay you back for what it costs."

It wasn’t that the girl was afraid he wouldn’t pay her back; she truly didn’t understand what Zeke Walton meant.

This was her first time in a big city, and she’d only been here for three days.

"Don’t you hail a taxi by waving your hand on the side of the road? Are you asking me to go flag one down for you?"

To save money, the girl was renting a place in an urban village. The area was filled with old, low-rise buildings inhabited by low-income people. Taking a taxi was the height of luxury for them, something almost no one did, so taxis rarely came this way.

Besides, it was already past one in the morning. The girl felt it would be a difficult task.

Zeke Walton was stunned by her line of thinking. "You don’t know what it means to call a car? Can I ask where you’re from? I mean, where’s your hometown?"

When he wasn’t threatening her and spoke nicely, he actually seemed like a decent person.

Perhaps if she was honest about her difficult situation, he might let her off the hook. So the girl answered truthfully.

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