“'I’m not hungry!” By the sound of his voice, he seemed reluctant to speak to me.
I didn’t know what to do, so I followed him into the car, jumped into the driver’s seat first, looked at him and said, “I’ll take you home.”
It’s not safe for him to drive like this.
He narrowed his eyes and looked at me. He looked very pale. “Why? Are you feeling sorry for me?”
I frowned. “No! At least we’re friends. You helped me. There’s no reason for me to stand by and do nothing.”
“Oh!” He sneered. “So you’re paying your debts?”
Knowing he was in a bad mood, I said no more and started the car and went straight to The Gibson’s.
The car stopped and he leaned back in his chair with his eyes closed, dark circles visible. He said in a tired voice, “You can stay in the Gibson Family. Yara will manage it. She’s Dennis’s aunt, and she won’t do anything to you.”
I pressed my lips together. “What about you?”
“I’ll go back to Country M!” He pinched his eyebrows. “I only came back here to take care of my mother. Now that her worries are gone, it’s better for me to take her back to Country M.”
I didn’t know much about Yank’s marriage. There was no way to decide who was right and who was wrong, so there was no reason for me to say more.
I was silent for a moment. “Come on,” I said. “I’ll take you up there. You need to eat something, get some rest, and we’ll figure it out later.”
He looked at me sideways, his eyes deep and unfathomable. “Link Kennedy is supposed to be planning how to get you into their family. Your path will get better and better. As for the Lewis family, just do it up to a point. A lot of people died accidentally under Samuel Lewis, so be careful.”
I nodded and looked at him with a slight sigh, “Do you have to go back to Country M? The Gibson Family is so big, even if you don’t run the Gibson Family, there’s still the Shone family, right?”
He smiled, and his mouth was a little dry, probably from his anxiety and anger. “Are you looking out for me? Don't you want me to go?”
I didn’t mean that. After a pause, I said, “I really don’t want you to go.
I owe you so much in my life that I’m afraid I can’t pay you back. If you go back to Country M, we’ll be so far apart, and it’ll be impossible for me to return the favor.”
He sat up straight. “Do you really want to return the favor?”
I nodded. If it had not been for his timely arrival and keeping me up till dawn, I should be dead now. He saved my life.
He said, curling his lips. “If you want to repay the kindness, stay with me tonight!”
I froze and stared at him.
He sneered at me. “Why? You don't want to? In the past, people repay their kindness by marrying each other, but you are already married, so it is impossible for me to marry you. I can only keep you for one night.”
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