<h4>Chapter 2250: Chapter 2242: Are You Being Too Conceited?</h4>


    Frank Parker’s deep brown eyes locked with hers, staring into her dark pupils for a moment, before slowly asking, "Did you call me out just to ask about this?"


    "Yes." Joanna Lawrence nodded, "I hope you can tell me what happened."


    Frank Parker’s thin lips pressed together, silent for a moment, before his lips curved slightly, "As I said, I only did a few deals with your father, nothing more."


    "I don’t believe that." Joanna said directly, "Parker Group could not possibly do any business with the Lawrence family. You wouldn’t even look at the small profit made from doing business with the Lawrence family. Why did you help the Lawrence family, was it because... because you knew I saved you?"


    "Because you knew that I saved you, and you wanted to repay the favor. So, you invested in the Lawrence family’spany and helped them."


    Frank’s eyes narrowed, but he said nothing.


    "Did I guess correctly?" Joanna’s lips pressed together, and she fell silent for a moment. Then she looked up again, "First of all, I want to thank you for your help. But in the future, I will handle the Lawrence family’s affairs myself, you..."


    "Joanna Lawrence, aren’t you getting a bit too presumptuous?"


    Before she could finish her sentence, Frank interrupted with a cold voice.


    She stiffened, somewhat dismayed, and looked up.


    Frank’s gaze became colder, as did the expression on his face. He seemed very unfamiliar at this moment, and even a little frightening.


    As Joanna stared nkly, she heard his cold voice continue, "Who I choose to help is up to me. What right do you have to arrange how I handle things?"


    "Helping your father has nothing to do with you. You saved me, and I’ve always wanted to repay the favor. But since you won’t ept it, never mind." Frank’s eyes half-closed as he looked down at her, "Is it because I was too persistent that you feel I should be taken lightly?"


    Joanna opened her eyes wide, "No, I didn’t... "


    "You don’t want to be involved with me anymore, so you hope I won’t have any rtionship with the Lawrence family either, right? If I continue helping the Lawrence family, you will feel psychologically burdened, ufortable, right?"


    "You’re more worried that I’ll cling to you in this way. Because I’m pleasing your father, I must want his support so he can speak well of me in front of you. That’s what you’re thinking, right?" Frankughed while talking, but there was no trace of a smile in his eyes.


    His eyes, his expressions, grew colder and colder.


    Joanna opened her mouth as if to exin.


    She wanted to tell him that she didn’t think that way.


    But suddenly, she realized that although some of Frank’s words were unpleasant to hear, part of them was true.


    Just now, she really thought that Frank was deliberately pleasing her father.


    She was also afraid that he would continue to cling to her.


    Frank captured every nuance of her face, watching as Joanna struggled to speak, then He couldn’t help but scoff, "As I said, Joanna Lawrence, that’s what you’re thinking."


    "It seems that my persistent pursuit really annoyed you." Frank’s lips curled in self-mockery, "I never thought I would be despised by someone."


    This person, who still mattered so much to him at heart.