Chapter 165


    Lillian’s initially flushed face paled. Her lips trembled, and she could choke out one sentence, I’m


    sorry.”


    After all, she was the one who had said these words, but she was also the one who failed to act on


    them.


    “You have a lot to be sorry for,” he said.


    There was another moment of silence in the car. After a long while, the car finally rolled to a stop.


    Lillian got out with Callum, only to find it was the same vi he had brought her to yesterday.


    Recalling the unspeakable scene she had witnessedst night, Lillian couldn’t help but stop in her


    tracks.


    “What? You don’t dare to go in?” Callum turned to face Lillian.


    Her lips trembled as she tried faking a smile. She croaked, “Whatever you say will be the same


    whether we’re inside or outside.


    Callum chuckled wryly. “If I wanted to detain you, Lillian, there are many ways I could go around it.


    And I can also guarantee that it won’t be so easy for Jonathan to take you away this time.”


    Lillian hesitated for a moment and then gritted her teeth. Who was afraid of him? If he wanted to


    hurt her, there was no way for her to stop him anyway!


    As a result, Lillian took a couple of steps forward in rage.


    Callum also strode forward indifferently.


    They walked into the vi, and Callum pointed to a sofa. “Sit down,” he ordered.


    As if she were a grade school student, Lillian sat down obediently.


    Callum walked to the bar counter and began mixing some alcohol. After a while, a rainbow-like


    cocktail appeared in his hand. He held the ss and walked towards her, saying, ‘Drink it. I


    remember that you liked this very much.”


    Upon mention of that time, a feeling of guilt bubbled up in her heart. She had assumed that this


    wine would be as mild as fruit wine. Who would have thought she would be so drunk that she


    would act that way?


    Their rtionship wouldn’t have been as awkward otherwise.


    “No thanks, I’m not thirsty.” She smiled awkwardly


    He raised his eyebrows. “I tried so hard to make it, don’t you want it?” He grasped her right hand


    and pushed the ss into her hand bit by bit, almost forcing her to hold it. “I didn’t want to learn how


    to mix drinks at first. After all, I didn’t intend to be a bartender, but I’ve picked it up over the years. In


    the end… I ended up only knowing how to mix this one drink. Isn’t it interesting?”


    An indescribable feeling bubbled up in Lillian as she heard these words, and the cocktail in her


    hand seemed to be extraordinarily heavy.


    “Still not drinking it?” His gaze pinned her down.


    She pursed her lips. Well, the worst thing that would happen was that she would get drunk. And


    then….it would be up to him how he would enact his revenge. It was just that… “Our business is not


    rted to my parents. You can take it up with me to vent your anger. You can do whatever you


    want, but don’t bother my parents.”


    He took in her daring expression as if she were ready to sacrifice herself for the greater good.


    Unbidden, the word “okay” carne tumbling from his thin lips.


    Lillian raised her head and knocked back the cocktail in her hand.


    The drink was identical to the one before, but her feelings about drinking it then and now were


    completely different. In the past, she had only thought about how good it tasted. “But why does it


    taste so bitter now?” she thought.


    “Is it good?” he said, looking at her calmly.


    “It’s… good.” Her tongue felt thick in her mouth. The taste of the cocktail permeated her mouth fully.


    The ss of wine that was supposed to be savored slowly had been downed in one go by her.


    “Callum, what do you want me to do for you to let that incident go? Tell me!”


    Perhaps because of that cocktail, she became considerably bolder, and her voice got louder.


    With dark eyes, he rumbled, “What you owed me from back then, you will pay me back now.”


    She tilted her head and looked at him with her round eyes wide open as if she were thinking of


    something. “So I can just give back what I owe you?”


    “Yes, he answered.


    Lillian stood up and shook her head, Perhaps it was because of the alcohol just now that she felt a


    little dizzy.


    This cocktail was indeed as powerful as it used to be.


    But at this moment, she had also be daring because it was so potent. She could do things that


    she couldn’t do under normal circumstances.


    Like now, when she was pulling at the zipper of her coat and beginning to take it off.


    Callum’s eyes narrowed. A light shed through them as he watched Lillian’s antics.


    Lillian finished taking off her coat. She began peeling off her sweater underneath, then her cotton t-


    shirt.


    “What, you think I want you?” Callum asked coldly.


    Lillian blinked. “Oh… that’s right, you hate me so much that you probably… don’t want me anymore.


    Find someone else, then. Anyway, I owe you one, so I’ll pay you back once.” She huped and


    continued, “You’ll stop being angry once I repay you.” Her tongue was slightly out of control. She


    was stumbling over her words.


    His face darkened. He approached her and seized her chin with a hand. “What? You would allow


    anyone to do that kind of thing to you?”


    “I’ll just treat it as… being bitten by a dog. If not… how do you want me to pay you back? But… You


    have to keep your promise… D-Don’t touch my parents. They’re just honest citizens-they’ve never


    hurt anyone as long as they’ve lived…” She was stuttering and mumbling, but her voice sharpened


    when she talked about her parents.


    He red at her. This woman was merely trying to protect her parents, after all! Was she afraid he


    would take out his anger andy hands on them?


    But what he wanted was not what she feared at all.


    “Did you ever regret it?” His face moved closer to hers, their lips almost touching. “Have you ever


    regretted leaving without saying goodbye?”


    She stared nkly at the handsome face before her, as beautiful as the dolls she had yed with


    as a child.


    “You’re so pretty.” She abruptly smiled and plopped her hands onto his cheeks, her fingers roving


    restlessly on his face.


    Seeing this, he knew that she must be really drunk.


    She was as intoxicated as that time before. She had also said the same thing then.


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    She had also vowed her eternal love for him numerous times, causing him to fall head over heels. If


    she hadn’t left without saying goodbye the next day, that night would probably have been his


    favorite memory.


    Unlike the ridicule, indifference, and frigid looks he had received from childhood, her eyes were


    always full of warmth when she looked at him.