Love at First Sight? Mr. Harrison Has Been Scheming All Along-Chapter 71: The Man’s Soft, Warm Lips Landed on Her Ear
Sean Harrison walked ahead, and Nadia Willow followed behind him.
They kept a distance of about two meters between them.
Nadia walked with an elegant gait, speaking as she went. "What’s wrong? Are you being chivalrous, or are you just afraid your scars will frighten her?"
Sean Harrison didn’t break his stride.
Nadia continued to follow him. "If she can’t even handle that, what will she do if she finds out you once cut a living person over a hundred times..."
Before she could finish, Sean Harrison suddenly spun around, his large hand clamping tightly around her neck.
His height blocked the overhead lights, casting his entire face into shadow. His ink-black eyes stared at her face as his well-defined fingers tightened, bit by bit.
Nadia Willow said nothing, simply staring back at Sean Harrison.
As his fingers squeezed harder, her initial composure gradually gave way to panic, and finally, to terror.
Her face slowly turned crimson, and she could no longer keep her arms nonchalantly crossed over her chest. Instead, she grabbed at his hand, her tense fingers trying to pry away the ones shackling her, desperate for him to let go.
No one else passed through the hallway.
The silence was terrifying.
It was as if time had stopped.
Just as Nadia Willow’s mouth gaped, desperate for air...
Sean Harrison finally released his hand.
"COUGH, COUGH, COUGH, COUGH, COUGH!"
Nadia gasped for fresh air, unable to stop coughing. The terror in her eyes was impossible to conceal.
She had thought Sean Harrison wouldn’t dare do anything to her.
But even if there wasn’t true killing intent in his eyes just now, it was definitely more than a simple warning.
This time, Sean Harrison didn’t walk away. He stood right in front of her. "Your divorce, your return to the country, whatever you do—it has nothing to do with me. There’s no need for us to contact each other again."
"Really? Rex, if it weren’t for me back then, you’d have blood on your hands right now. And all these years, you helped me so much, letting me misunderstand. What right do you have to just call it quits?!"
Nadia Willow’s expression was cold.
She had known Sean Harrison for many years. In her earliest memories, he was cowardly and taciturn.
When she first saw him, the young boy’s eyes were pitch-black and he seemed incredibly gloomy.
Back then, the boy was bullied at school, and she had been one of the bullies. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂
The bullying only stopped because the main perpetrators started disappearing one by one around the time of final exams.
Until one day, she received an international call from an unknown number.
The caller was Sean Harrison. He told her to go to a certain place to save someone.
To this day, Nadia Willow could not forget the scene she witnessed upon entering that room.
Later, when Sean Harrison returned from Celestria, he was like a different person. Although he still didn’t interact much with others, you could see he had become more positive and driven...
Many things happened in the years that followed.
And Nadia Willow had belatedly realized that her feelings for Sean Harrison had long since changed.
"You helped me back then, and I paid off your ex-husband’s massive gambling debts and cleaned up the mess he made. We’re even now." Sean Harrison’s ink-black eyes bored into her. "You have no leverage to negotiate with me."
"Really?" Nadia Willow sneered. "But you wanted to kill me just now, didn’t you? How does that make you any different from Miss Linden’s father? If Miss Linden knew you were just like her father, she would definitely stay away from you."
Sean Harrison looked at Nadia Willow, his dark eyes like a deep well, concealing unknowable emotions.
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Rory Linden stood waiting alone at the door of the private room.
She could sense that the relationship between Sean Harrison and Nadia Willow was complicated, but they weren’t a couple.
When he had left just now, she also sensed that there was a side to Sean Harrison she didn’t know.
The hallway was quiet.
Time passed silently.
Rory Linden stared down at the pattern on the carpet until a shadow blocked the light to her side.
"Why didn’t you go back inside the room?"
The man’s voice sounded, no different from before—level, yet gentle.
"I... I don’t know them well. I wouldn’t know what to say if I went in, so I just decided to wait for you out here."
Rory Linden was telling the truth.
Even from their brief interaction, she could imagine what she would face if she went in alone.
Henry Lancaster would surely bombard her with a million questions she couldn’t answer.
"Mm, let’s go in."
The man’s palm rested on her back, broad and warm.
For the rest of the meal, Rory Linden remained silent, just as before, keeping her head down and eating quietly.
Fortunately, the dinner party ended early.
Since Sean Harrison hadn’t been drinking, he could drive.
After they got in the car, Sean Harrison finally asked her, "What did you think of the food?"
"Well... it wasn’t very good," Rory Linden said honestly. "It’s expensive, the portions are small, and a lot of the dishes were just bizarre..."
Although The Eastwind Pavilion’s decor was antique and charming, the menu wasn’t traditional Celestria cuisine, but rather a collection of strange, innovative dishes.
And every single one of those innovative dishes was bad.
"I agree, it was mediocre. Henry Lancaster picked the place. I’ll take you somewhere else next time."
Sean Harrison’s tone was easygoing.
Rory Linden secretly glanced at the man beside her out of the corner of her eye.
Night had completely fallen. The warm glow of the streetlights filtered through the window, tracing a gentle outline on the man’s profile.
’It’s like everything that happened in the restaurant hallway was just an illusion.’
The car arrived home. Rory Linden took a shower and changed her clothes before bringing a glass of water to the study to find Sean Harrison.
The man was sitting in the large chair behind the desk, seemingly still dealing with work.
Rory Linden placed the glass of water and a few pills on the desk. "Take your medicine. And get some rest soon after you’re done with work."
Sean Harrison looked up.
She stood beside his desk. Having just showered, her long hair fell naturally, and she exuded a soft aura.
Nadia Willow’s words echoed in his mind again and again.
’If she knew what I’ve done, would she leave...?’
Sean Harrison stood up, took the glass of water and pills from her, and swallowed the medicine.
"Very good." Like a magician, Rory Linden produced a piece of chocolate from out of nowhere. "This is your reward for taking your medicine like you’re supposed to."
This was a trick she often used during her hospital internship back when she was a student.
At first, she only gave candy to the children, but then the adults in the same ward started asking for rewards too.
Over time, she developed the habit of giving candy as encouragement for people to take their medicine.
Sean Harrison lowered his gaze, accepting the candy from her hand. With his other hand, he wrapped his arm around her slender waist, instantly closing the distance between them.
Rory Linden hadn’t expected him to react like this, and for a moment, she didn’t know what to do.
The light in the study was bright.
She closed her eyes almost instinctively, the last thing she saw being her own reflection in his dark eyes.
The room was unnervingly quiet.
Time seemed to stand still.
After what felt like an eternity, Rory Linden felt the man’s soft, warm lips on the shell of her ear, his teeth grazing her earlobe with restrained gentleness.
He asked her, "That question... how much longer are you going to think about it...?"
