NovelEnglishChapter 271 Hearing that I had taken off again, he must have rushed over in the middle of the night, not even having the tto change his clothes, right? I approached him, feigning vulnerability, and tugged at the hem of his pajamas, saying, "Mr. Hilton, always so neat and orderly, a man for whom elegance is everything. What's with the pajamas today? And staring atlike that, you're makingblush." He reached out to gently squeeze my hand, his face still clouded with a frown, not lightened by my attempt at coyness. Instead, his grip tightened on my wrist in the next instant, and he hadpinned against the back of the armchair. "Claire Floyd, have I spoiled you too much? Coming and going as you please? Am I just a trash can for your whims?" I lowered my gaze, not daring to meet his eyes.
But in that moment of looking down, I spotted a security camera. This was Lily Williams' room... she must have seen everything.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtMax seemed to have known about the camera all along, as he simply pickedup and started to walk out. "Max, putdown. Let's talk this out." "There's nothing to discuss. You're not allowed to leave," he declared, his voice fierce and unyielding, like a raging storm.
Despite my struggles, everyone around gavea look that clearly said, "You've brought this on yourself." "Max, I'm sorry. I just wanted to secretly becstronger and then protect you." "I don't need you to secretly becstronger. Whatever you want to do, even if you want to conquer the world, I'd fight it for you. But leavingtand again, that's where you're wrong." For a moment, I lost all will to struggle, my body going limp.
I teased him, "Could you really? If I really wanted to conquer a country?" Max stopped in his tracks. "I've always known about the situation in Bravenland." His words madefrown, and then I playfully punched his chest. "Max, what don't you know? You seem to know everything but always keep secrets from me." He took my fist and gently massaged it, saying, "You wanted to live as a normal person. How could I push you into the firepit that is Bravenland?" "But Lily is my sister, Richard Price is my brother. They're innocent. They shouldn't have to die for me, nor should you, an outsider, get dragged into this." "An outsider?" Max set down, and at that moment, standing in the hallway with a cold breeze blowing, I felt a chillstepping out from his embrace.
Swnov But Max seemed even colder, his usual rational self easily agitated by me.
I had indeed provoked him.
"Can I explain?" "You may," he said, barely holding back his anger but maintaining his gentlemanly demeanor.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏm"I said you were an outsider..." Before I could finish my sentence, his lips spressed against mine, the pinningagainst a columnielbelongs to en.kkies ent hallway, his anger I dared not repeat the word "outsider" again.
Passing servants covered their eyes and hurried away.
I sobbed softly, hitting him, "I've just becthe new master of this place. Can't you sparesdignity? I don't want to be labeled as someone who just listens to her husband." "Claire Floyd, only you..."
He tookby the hand, drove us away from the mansion at top speed, and broughtback to the ancestral Hison fam Hilton family estate. Finally, he ledto kneel in the Hilton family chapel. "Why are we kneeling in the chapel?" He smiled and said, "Because I've cleared out all those old stubborn folks from the chapel, leaving only my mother."
I was stunned. He pulled back the yellow drapes, and in that moment, dint the vast chapel was dedicated to just one person.
Max had stood against the old guard single-handedly, even removing the ancestors from the chapel to enshrine only his mother. For his mother, he had conquered the Hilton family empire.
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