Chapter 398


    Dead silence reigned in the car. One could sense that the atmosphere was entirely different from when


    Jonathan was present earlier, giving off a sense of an impending storm.


    Roxanne was sitting straight, her gaze trained right ahead. She tried her best to ignore the man beside


    her.


    She wasn’t sure whether she was imagining things, but his piercing gaze seemingly locked on her


    since Jonathan alighted from the car. It had her tensing up subconsciously.


    All of a sudden, Lucian’s voice rang out beside her.


    “Have I offended you in any way, Ms. Jarvis?”


    Relief suffused Roxanne when she heard his voice. She shed him a detached smile. “Why would you


    say that, Mr. Farwell?”


    Lucian eyed her with a dark look, his voice threaded with displeasure. “If that’s not the case, why are


    you avoiding me thus, Ms. Jarvis?”.


    Frowning slightly, Roxanne feigned ignorance. “When have I avoided you, Mr. Farwell? Precisely


    speaking, I don’t have much of a chance to meet you since our work doesn’t intersect.”


    In other words, they didn’t have a personal rtionship besides a professional association.


    IesSIona In fact, they even had no interaction at work.


    They had no opportunity to meet anyway, so avoiding him made no sense.


    The moment her words rang out, the temperature in the car plummeted.


    While driving, Cayden cautiously stole a peek at the two people at the back through the rearview mirror.


    Inwardly, he worried on Roxanne’s behalf.


    Why is Ms. Jarvis provoking Mr. Farwell when she knows full well that he‘s in a bad mood now?


    As he was fretting, he noticed Lucian lowering the partition in the back seat.


    He silently retracted his gaze, not daring to observe the situation in the back anymore.


    When Roxanne saw Lucian lowering the partition without warning, her heart lurched. She instinctively


    twisted sideways and stered her back against the car window to put some distance between them.


    Glimpsing that, Lucian narrowed his eyes in chagrin and questioned icily, “Roxanne Jarvis, why are you


    shying away from me in such a manner How when you said I hadn’t offended you in any way? Are you


    afraid that I’d bite?”


    A frown marred Roxanne’s countenance, and fainht wariness showed in her eyes. In a distant tone,


    she exined, “I merely feel that we’re not that close with each other, and your action was rather:


    sudden to me, Mr. Farwell.”


    At the sight of her wary expression, Lucian smirked scornfully. “What do you think I’m nning to do?”


    Roxanne said nothing, but their kiss at the hotel when they first bumped into each other after her return


    to the country shed across her mind.


    That was the only time he took the initiative with me since we got acquainted. s, it was when I no long


    The current situation was inexplicably simr to the circumstances back then.


    Lucian stared at her with a dark look, a storm brewing in his eyes.


    Ever since we parted ways at the café back then, she had been avoiding me. That aside, she even had


    He initially thought he could understand her thoughts, but he merely felt livid after seeing her for real


    and experiencing her treatment of him.


    His n had been to vent by drinking, but the alcohol coursing through his veins was only fanning the


    mes within him.


    Roxanne could distinctly sense the oppressiveness in the car intensifying. Her hands by her side


    unconsciously balled into fists, her nails digging into her palms as she forcefully suppressed the panic


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