CHAPTER 325: CHAPTER 174: DARING TO BE SO PRESUMPTUOUS IN FRONT OF HIM (2/2)

Night had already fallen. The rush hour had passed, and there were few cars on the road. There were no streetlights, only the distant, scattered city lights faintly illuminating his striking features, exuding an aura of coldness.

At this moment, his phone rang.

He picked up the phone and, without hesitation, pressed the answer button. Before the other party could speak, he coolly stated, "The gathering is canceled!!"

On the other end, Roger Leonard hadn’t figured out the situation yet, but the beeping sound already echoed in his ear.

Howard Geoffrey casually tossed the phone onto the seat, then suddenly punched the car’s glass window.

The window shattered on impact...

The shattered glass shards, some fell outside, and some onto the seat, leaving the car interior in disarray.

Howard Geoffrey’s hand was bleeding from being cut by the glass shards, but he seemed to feel nothing, letting the blood drip from his injured hand onto the seat below, one drop at a time...

Rebecca Quentin, what should he do about her?

No woman had ever behaved so wantonly in front of him before, and yet she repeatedly provoked him...

Did she really think he would indulge her recklessly?

Damn it...

Howard cursed inwardly, the anger brewing in his chest hitting the limits of his patience, which for more than thirty years had never been challenged...

Yet, this overwhelming rage, when faced with the deepest yearning in his heart, eventually saw yearning triumph over anger.

There was never anything he wanted to possess so desperately, except her...

For her, he suppressed his hatred, stood up to the mother he had never defied before, and promised to abandon "Skytop" to leisurely spend the rest of life with her...

Despite his efforts, he couldn’t gain even a bit of her gentle response...

Every night, when he held her, how he wished to receive from her the tender embrace they once shared, but there was nothing, only her cold body like a lifeless corpse, unresponsive.

Why was she so stubborn?

About the matter with Alice Robinson, he had already asked her for some time... Was trusting him just once so difficult?

If what she cared about was the fact that he had never truly cared and had hurt her, he could make amends for his past mistakes, bit by bit, yet why did she leave him no chance at all?

Did she truly steel her heart to see him as nothing?

No, she shouldn’t dare!!

From the moment they met, they were destined to entwine all their lives...

After having a child, Rebecca Quentin had gotten used to sleeping early...

After dinner and putting Andrew to sleep, she went into the bathroom with her pajamas...

Still, she wouldn’t have expected, when she came out of the bathroom after bathing, to meet those deep-set eyes with an unwitting glance.

His proud figure stood three meters away from her, no longer exuding the chilling severity he had when he left; he now quietly gazed at her.

Rebecca Quentin withdrew her eyes from inadvertently meeting Howard Geoffrey’s gaze and walked straight forward.

Regardless of Howard Geoffrey blocking her way, she passed by him, intending to leave the room.

However, the moment she brushed past him, he suddenly grabbed her hand. "Going to sleep in the next room again?" he coldly questioned.

Rebecca Quentin stood helplessly, not answering.

She didn’t need to answer; he knew she intended to go to the next-door nursery to sleep with Andrew...

There were already two maids taking shifts watching over Andrew; she didn’t need to stay by his side at night, yet for this entire week, she had spent her nights in the nursery.

He had let her be, unwilling to push her too much, knowing her stubborn personality, that rushing things would backfire... Yet tonight, he could no longer let her continue to drift away, fearing their growing distance.

He pulled her to the bedside and suddenly lifted her onto his lap.

With a tender affection, he kissed the back of her slender neck, murmuring softly, "I apologize for what happened earlier; it was due to my inability to control my emotions."

Howard Geoffrey’s apology was met with Rebecca Quentin’s persistent silence.

"Does it still hurt?"

Gently touching her faintly bruised jaw, his voice grew softer.

Rebecca Quentin’s expression remained icy, without any reaction.

Howard Geoffrey spoke slowly, "Becca, if you keep refusing to talk to me, I think I’ll need to make sure you spend more time with me..."

Hearing the deeply meaningful words from Howard Geoffrey, a slight change finally appeared in Rebecca Quentin’s indifferent eyes.

"I will have someone bring Andrew to my mom’s place, so we’ll have plenty of time to discuss our issues."

Rebecca Quentin looked at Howard Geoffrey with eyes full of hatred. He was clearly using Andrew to threaten her...

Seeing Rebecca Quentin look at him, Howard Geoffrey curved a faint smile, "I thought you’d never look at me again in this lifetime!"

"Is intimidation all you know?"

"It might seem despicable to you, but it’s the only way I have to force you to talk to me."

"You can keep my body, but you can never keep my heart."

Howard Geoffrey smirked, "Your heart? Did you forget that your heart already belongs to me?"

Rebecca Quentin scoffed, "Howard, I don’t understand how someone as cold-blooded and ruthless as you can put on an act of deep affection in front of me?"

Cold-blooded, ruthless?

The emphasis Rebecca Quentin put on those eight words caused Howard Geoffrey’s brows to furrow.

"In the past, I must have been blind to have fallen for someone like you..."

Howard Geoffrey spoke with calmness born of immense self-control and endurance, "Rebecca Quentin, you should speak more clearly."

Rebecca Quentin rose from Howard Geoffrey’s lap, looking at his coldly handsome face, word by word she uttered, "I always thought my father committed suicide seeking redemption, but seven years ago, you had already given him a grave plot, cruelly using me to coerce him into suicide... Howard, during these years, was there ever a night you couldn’t sleep because of guilt?"

Howard Geoffrey’s eyes turned suddenly cold, "Who told you this?"

"Who told me is not important; what matters is... I have finally seen you for what you are, a murderer..." Rebecca Quentin was already emotionally overwhelmed, tears escaping as she choked out, "Daddy made mistakes, he could face the law’s judgment, why did you cruelly force him to end his life? Did you know, Daddy was the most important person in my life..."