The voice was low and could not be heard very clearly. Freya couldn’t tell whose voice it was, but she was genuinely startled by it.
She hadn’t bought anything online lately, and it was strange enough that she got such a big box for no reason. Now, how could there be a man’s voice in the box?!
If Freya hadn’t always been a staunch atheist, she might have thought she’d met a psychic event.
She took one look at the box and involuntarily took a step back. The big box in front of her seemed like a ticking time bomb.
On second thought, Freya decided to open the box and find out what was inside. She gave the box a tentative kick, and there was a muffled groan inside.
At this point, Freya was almost certain that the box contained a real man!
Kieran also heard the sound inside the box. He frowned slightly. Seeing that Freya was trying to open the box, he pressed her hands.
“I’ll do it!”
The irresistible voice made Freya pull back her hand involuntarily.
Her heart beat faster. Freya knew it was too much to ask, but it was nice to feel protected by him.
Freya worried that this was a trick played by Alisha and the people in the box would bring danger to them, so she rushed into the kitchen and grabbed a kitchen knife.
If the man in that box was really up to no good, she would fight him to death! She would never let him hurt Kieran, the kids, and Kiki!
The box was quickly opened and a man in an off-white casual suit jumped out of it. As Freya tried to swing a kitchen knife at him, his plastic flowers scattered all over the room.
“Boss, I’m back! Surprise? Happy?”
Seth was going to jump out of the box gracefully, but he had a cramp in his foot that made it a little difficult.
He could only tip the box upside down and, awkwardly, slowly and uncomfortably, climbed out of it.
Seth felt refreshed by being freed from the confines of a confined space. He opened his arms and wanted to embrace Freya with great joy. He lowered his head and touched the cold, shining kitchen knife in Freya’s hand.
Seth was a romantic guy, and he thought that giving him to Freya disguised as a courier would ignite her girlish heart, and when she saw him, she would burst into tears of joy and fall into his arms.
Then he would put his arms around her and say, “boss, don’t cry.”
How romantic it would be!
He had imagined Freya’s reaction to him jumping out of the box countless times, and every time Freya had tears in her eyes. Little did he know that the surprise he had so painstakingly produced was faced not with tears of emotion but with the glint of the kitchen knife.
Seth was startled by Freya’s kitchen knife, he involuntarily took a step back, “Boss, calm down! Impulse is the devil!”
Freya also recognized Seth, and she couldn’t stop exclaiming, “Sethy, is that you? I thought it was...”
Freya put the kitchen knife aside for fear of hurting Seth. She checked herself again during the day, and she couldn’t be more sure that she didn’t have sex with Kieran, but even then so, she had a hard time accepting Seth.
She was trying to fall in love with Seth, but she found she had failed. Since she did not love him, it would hurt both her and him if she was forced to be with him.
She had to let two kids down.
Of course, Freya wouldn’t say this to Seth in front of Kieran. She needed to find a time to talk to Seth.
“Boss, it’s me! I’m home early!”
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