Way Back Into Love (Essie) novel Chapter 9

"Go ahead." Thinking of this, Essie sighed in relief. She would do anything as long as his list of requests weren't asking too much of her.

"First, no affairs. You don't cheat on me. Second, you'll have to take care of me,"

he said seriously as his lips straightened into a thin line.

How dare he? The first condition didn't even make any sense! The second one was that he obviously intended to treat her like a slave. As they say, if one handed you lemons, you can just go and make lemonade. She shook her head at the thought.

But as long as she could win the bet against Sunny, then she could bear all of it. After all, it was only for two months.

"Fine, but you should also behave yourself. Don't take advantage of me," she warned him.

"I've seen every part of your body, and there is absolutely no part that I haven't touched. What else can I take advantage of?" he teased.

Essie flushed, wishing that the ground beneath her could swallow her right up. She wanted to curse him into the oblivion as she turned and walked towards the bus stop.

When they were waiting for the bus to arrive, a woman walked up to them. "It's you two! What a coincidence!" she exclaimed.

Essie furrowed her eyebrows, thinking that the woman must've mistaken her for some other person. "That day when you registered at the Civil Affairs Bureau, my husband and I were also registering at the same time." It seemed that the memory was still fresh in the woman's mind.

"Hello." Startled by the lady's sudden appearance, Essie rubbed the back of her neck awkwardly.

The woman smiled and glanced at Zac gently. "Handsome boy. You two really shocked us that day. The registration staff said that you two were drunk, so you can do it once you're sober, but you grabbed his collar and threatened him to approve it or else he'd disappear from the ends of the earth."

She laughed, turning to Essie. "You're more powerful. You grabbed a paper knife from the desk and pointed it at your wrist saying that if you aren't going to be registered that day, then your blood will drench the office. We were so touched that we just had to tell the staff to serve you first."

Zac coughed in embarrassment at the memory. It was better for him to not have remembered it at all.

Essie's cheeks flushed.

'I'll want to marry the man over my dead body!

The last thing I want is to be married!'