The maid’s footsteps could be heard from the room. Someone stopped at the door and asked softly, “Eldest Young Lady, are you alright?”
Janet froze.
The maid must have heard the commotion and got worried, so she came over.
Janet glared at the man and hinted at him to release her.
However, Liam pretended not to see her expression. He kept his hands on her waist and pressed against the door.
Janet could not do anything about him, thus she responded to the maid, “Everything’s fine.”
The maid was doubtful but she did not ask any more questions and left.
Once the maid was gone, Janet glared at Liam again and uttered harshly, “Aren’t you going to let me go?”
Liam regarded her with a calm expression. Instead of letting her go, he inched closer, narrowing the gap between them.
Janet’s heart palpitated as she felt a strong oppressive force. Instinctively, she moved her head backward.
Suddenly, Liam chuckled.
“Jan, you have me in mind.”
Janet trembled.
As if he was certain of this, Liam reached out to hold her chin and forced her to look at him. The harshness and resentment in his dark eyes had receded, but there was a new sort of emotion that Janet could not interpret.
“Do you know what I often wonder about all these years?”
Janet was in a daze. She remained silent and stared at him.
Liam caressed the skin on her chin and whispered, “I often wonder why you dumped me when you liked me so much back then. Did you mean what you said to me last time? You got together with me out of curiosity. A poor guy like me is out of your league, Eldest Young Lady Hancock…”
Memories of the past flooded her mind.
Five years ago, Janet was still very young. The youthful, restless girl fell for the cool, rugged Liam Jackman the first time she laid eyes on him.
Still, she was so young at that time. Despite liking him, it was difficult to confess her feelings.
The more she liked him, the more troubled she felt.
She loved him to bits, yet she had to constantly put on a nonchalant look.
Moreover, she was the eldest daughter of the Hancock family.
Her friends came from rich and elite families, and they belonged to the upper echelons of Jincheng.
Before the incident that befell Cathy, Nell was also a pampered child of the Jennings family.
Often, people loved to make comparisons within the elites. One day, someone asked her whether she was with a penniless guy and even jeered at her.
For some unknown reason, she simply blurted out that she was just fooling around and there was nothing to be surprised about!
The other party taunted her and said that she would marry a country bumpkin in the future and become a miserable shrew for the rest of her life. She panicked and said that she would never do so. She was the Eldest Young Lady of the Hancocks and she was not serious in her relationship with the country bumpkin, who was out of her league anyway.
She had never meant what she said.
She wanted to say that she was sure that the young man was not some random poor guy from the country.
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