Please Be Gentle With Me Mr Grant novel Chapter 63

“Huh? What’s that mean?”

“So don’t go out in daylight today.”

“…”

That rare bit of goodwill she felt towards Matthew faded instantly.

Blanca pushed him off directly, eyes spitting fire. “Matthew Grant! If your so-called duties of being Mrs. Grant is to ward off your suitors and take hits for you, then I don’t think I’m suitable for the task!”

She wasn’t some dummy target to be shot at by everyone.

Blanca scowled. Her features were delicate, but maybe because it was her emotions or maybe because she’d been slapped, her cheeks were red and puffy, a comical sight.

“Pfft.”

Matthew didn’t manage to hold back his laughter. The way he looked at her face, Blanca understood immediately.

She clutched her own face and looked at Matthew, angered. Matthew set his smile away and said calmly, “Do you still get to choose? Don’t you want to know who the pendant belongs to?”

Matthew knew exactly where her weakness was.

The wind went out of Blanca’s sails.

She could tough her way through anything else, but not this…

Where did she come from? Why did her parents abandon her? That had weighed on her all this time, torturing her every day.

Like a deflated balloon, Blanca’s eyes dimmed. “Is that the only trick you have up your sleeve, Matthew?”