He honestly didn’t know where Brinleigh could be, but of course, Lucinda didn’t believe him.
She thought he was just holding out.
Trying to exercise some patience, she looked down at the man kneeling in front of her and said slowly, “Nathaniel, you know me very well.
I don’t care how many things you have hidden or how powerful you are out of here. As long as you are under this roof, you will be my manservant and you will play by my rules. If disobedient pets can be punished, what more of you? Huh?”
She sighed dramatically as if contemplating her options before she asked again, “I’ll ask you for the last time. Where?”
When Nathaniel looked up at her and saw her cold eyes staring down at him, her felt a sharp pain in his heart.
Would she really punish him because of Brinleigh?
Did that mean she really Like Brinleigh?
Nathaniel’s heart ached at the thought of this.
“I don’t know!” Eyes red, he asked in a pained voice, “Do you Like him so much that you’d punish me for him? I just sent him away, I promise. I didn’t hurt him!”
Lucinda looked at him, speechless.
No matter how hard she racked her brain, she didn’t think she had ever seen such a shameless person. How dare he act like he knew nothing?
“I think you’re the one who likes her. I mean, how could you have hurt her? You wouldn’t! And aren’t you disgusted with yourself for acting in front of me so long?”
What the hell?
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Nathaniel froze.
He didn’t like Brinleigh! That would be sick!
“I Like women, Lucinda! Scratch that, I like the woman in front of me! I like you! Everything I have done so far is very sincere. Don’t you see that?”
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He meant every word he just said.
However, Lucinda smiled wryly, admiring his ability to be so serious in his lies.
Her patience had run out. She left him and walked to the window.
It was still raining heavily outside. The sound was very loud when the rain hit the eave and slates of the villa. And it was probably because of that they both didn’t really hear each other clearly, since Lucinda was talking about Eleanor all along while Nathaniel Brinleigh.
The pouring rain was just as noisy as Nathaniel–nothing meaningful or sincere.
She had enough and just couldn’t let it go. So she said calmly, “The rain is so beautiful, don’t you think? Since you don’t want to tell me what I want to know, go to the garden and kneel down. Enjoy the rain all you want. Then, when you’re ready to finally tell me the truth, you get up and meet me.”
“What?” Nathaniel wasn’t sure he heard right.