His Dangerous Love

Chapter 57 She Was Ungrateful

Chapter 57 She Was Ungrateful

Jefferson fumbled for a packet of cigarettes, tapped the cigarette case with his fingertips, pulled out a cigarette, and put it in his mouth.

Elianna fully intended to ingratiate herself with Jefferson and hurriedly picked up the lighter on the dining table to light the cigarette for him.

After practicing this a few times, Elianna was able to smoothly light a cigarette with his lighter.

The cigarette was on top of the flame. Lights flickered, and smoke rose.

"I ordered all of Jeff's favorites. Do you want to order anything else?"

Darren was looking at Elianna when he said it. The menu was placed on the dining table and rotated to Elianna's hand.

Elianna glanced at Jefferson before taking the menu. Until now, she didn't have his permission to stay.

Elianna carefully took the menu, pulling it from the dining table toward her and glancing at Jefferson meanwhile.

Jefferson blew a smoke ring. "What's the holdup?"

Although Jefferson was rude, he allowed her to stay.

Elianna perked up and took the menu off the dining table in a whoosh.

Elianna had already filled her stomach and ordered a cup of juice and a small cake.

After getting the menu, Elianna rolled up her sleeves and cleaned up the tableware for Jefferson.

She had red marks on her wrists from last night. A touch of bright red on her delicate white wrist was particularly eye-catching.

The dishes were served after covers were laid for three. Elianna began to busy herself with putting food on Jefferson's plate.

Jefferson rightfully enjoyed Elianna's service, occasionally asking her to shave off fat or pick out scallions he hated.

Darren looked at them for a while and pretended to be sad. "Alas, I'm not that lucky and have to help myself."

"Alas, Anna. Shall I call you Anna or Elianna from now on?"

Elianna glanced at Jefferson, and seeing that he had no intention of responding to Darren, she curled up the corners of her mouth a little and said, "Why don't you just call me Elianna?"

With that, she put a bowl of soup on the dining table and rotated it to Darren.

"I haven't thanked Mr. Darren for helping me out before."

Darren picked up the soup and smiled. "There's nothing to thank me for. After all, my favors come with a price tag. I should be thanking you for getting me this order."

"An order?"

Elianna froze and didn't understand what he meant in the first place.

Elianna then reminded herself that Darren had just said it was worth a building.

She turned to look at Jefferson, amazed.

It turned out that Jefferson traded a building for Elianna.

Jefferson felt the way Elianna looked at him change. He glanced at her, his tone nonchalant.

"What? You find yourself ungrateful?"

Jefferson paid the price of a building to get Elianna out of her predicament, but she was preoccupied with how to use his name to save her own life.

It indeed seemed that she was ungrateful.

Elianna sheepishly picked up Jefferson's bowl, filled it with soup, and pushed it to his hand. From NôvelDrama.Org.

"Jefferson, thank you so much."

Darren, who was drinking soup across the table, gave a laugh at this and coughed uncontrollably.

Darren waved his hand when he realized Elianna was looking at him. "Cough, cough, cough. You guys keep going. Don't mind me... Cough, cough..."

Elianna was already guilty, and this episode made her feel worse.

Elianna secretly reached her hand under the dining table to hold Jefferson's. Jefferson was tall, with big, bony hands.

The bulging veins under the skin on the back of his hand had an inexplicable sexual tension.

The moment Elianna took his hand, Jefferson glanced down.

Elianna's slender fingers reached carefully into his palm.

Jefferson thought to himself, "Heh, she even wants to take my hand."

Without any hesitation, Jefferson broke away from her hand and reached for his cigarette case.

Elianna curled her lips when her hand was yanked away.

After dinner, Jefferson and Darren talked about business.

Elianna listened for a few moments and got up from her seat sensibly. "I'm going out for a walk."

Although she was engaged in a physical relationship with Jefferson, she was on the same side as Omar and Asher.

If there was gossip, she couldn't explain it.

She was already in enough of a mess herself and didn't want to get involved in the Larsen family's fight.

She had just stood up when her wrist was grabbed by Jefferson.