Chapter 2970 - 160: Ben Lucas Begins to Treat Her Coldly (Part 1)

Chapter 2970: Chapter 160: Ben Lucas Begins to Treat Her Coldly (Part 1)

"It’s okay, I’ll eat by myself tonight. I’ll go to bed early after dinner. You... when you come back, I probably won’t be able to keep you company... accompany you in bed."

In the midst of a crowd, Harrison Lucas was too embarrassed to be straightforward.

But Ben Lucas knew that when she said ’sleep,’ it wasn’t just sleeping; she meant doing that thing in bed.

Ben Lucas’s furrowed brow subtly relaxed upon hearing Harrison Lucas’s words: "Rest is more important, you don’t need to force yourself."

Harrison Lucas’s breath slightly stalled.

The way Ben Lucas relaxed his brow was entirely captured by her eyes.

For Harrison Lucas, who had admired him since childhood and regarded him as an idol.

Even a tiny movement like this, she could still perceive the deeper meaning behind it. Harrison Lucas knew Ben Lucas’s true intentions.

After the young master heard that she couldn’t keep him company tonight, he breathed a sigh of relief.

He... indeed started to regret, regretting being with her, regretting to the point... he no longer wanted to touch her.

Harrison Lucas didn’t dare to linger; she was afraid her emotions would lose control and Ben Lucas would notice something amiss.

So, she quickly used the excuse that she wasn’t feeling well and needed to adjust to the time difference to return to her room.

When she returned to the hotel room, standing by the window, she watched that tall, slender figure cross the avenue in front of the hotel, walk to the corner, and disappear from sight.

Harrison Lucas’s heart uncontrollably constricted, as if gripped tightly by an invisible giant hand.

"No wild thoughts, Harrison Lucas... you are not allowed to trouble the young master, remember your duty..."

Like this, Harrison Lucas told herself every day to adhere to her duty, continuously warning herself not to reveal her inner pain, not to make things difficult for the young master.

During this time, Ben Lucas went out early and came back late for three consecutive days. Each night when he returned, Harrison Lucas had already gone to bed.

They said they traveled together, but in reality, every day, Harrison Lucas was by herself.

She even began to hate this kind of relationship.

If she weren’t Ben Lucas’s nominal girlfriend, she could revert to her role as a subordinate, always accompanying the young master.

She would go in and out with him every day, and wouldn’t have to only watch him go out, unable to ask him anything more like now.

However, this day, the emotions Harrison Lucas had been suppressing almost got out of control because of a certain event.

The thing went like this...

Harrison Lucas stayed in the room alone as usual that day.

But she no longer needed to adjust to the time difference; instead, she couldn’t help but go online to check netizens’ comments, browsing those emotional issues between men and women she rarely paid attention to in the past.

The more Harrison Lucas read the netizens’ ’experiences,’ the more despair she felt about her relationship with the young master.

From the viewpoint of those people, someone with her conditions being with Ben Lucas was entirely mismatched.

Online people all said that the young master’s conditions were unparalleled, someone unreachable, one in a million.

The young master, such a perfect man, didn’t even find Miss Wellington attractive, so how could he possibly find her appealing?

Harrison Lucas had always known what kind of man Ben Lucas was; he was different from those playboys; as a soldier, what he valued most was a sense of duty.

He was a man who could stand tall and firm, and having saved him, he naturally had to repay.

So Harrison Lucas was sure that the way the young master chose to repay was by marrying her.

Even if he fundamentally had no interest in her body.

...

After having lunch delivered by the Guest Room Department, Harrison Lucas turned her back to the wide full-length mirror in the room and took off her shirt.