Chapter 197

I saw his hand slowly tighten at his side; terrifying veins bulged on the back of his hand. I fearfully took two steps back. I tightened my bag straps and said boldly, “No matter what, I don’t want to go to your company. I’m living well now, and my job is good. I don’t want this tranquility disrupted.”

“Hehe…” he sneered. “A work environment full of mockery and insults, and you call that good? Or are you naturally masochistic and enjoy being insulted?”

“Yes, I was being stupid. I enjoyed being scolded. Anyway, I don’t want to change jobs!”

As soon as I finished speaking, Reynaldo’s gaze sharpened. “Everyone wanted to go to Headquarters, except you. So, your resistance… could it be because of some undisclosed secret?”

My face changed slightly, and I shook my head, stepping back. But he remained sharp, his gaze even more piercing and terrifying, as if he could see through my soul. Afraid of being seen through, I gritted my teeth and said deliberately, “Yes, you were right. I don’t want to work under you; I just don’t want to see you.”

To everyone’s surprise, he didn’t get angry. He just looked at me with a light smile, and in his deep eyes, there were emotions I couldn’t understand. He said, “Look, you finally admitted it. Ms. Duffy has never been sincere to anyone; she’s one way in bed and another when she puts on her pants.”

Should I say you’re really good at seducing men?

“Reynaldo!”

“Enough!” Reynaldo coldly interrupted. He chuckled and said, “I informed you to go to Headquarters; I wasn’t seeking your opinion.” You have to go, whether you want to or not.

“I didn’t go!”

This man used to threaten me often. As the threats increased, I seemed less afraid. But this time, he clearly didn’t have such a good temper. He grabbed my hair at the back of my head and pressed my head towards him. Like a demon, he whispered, “Do you want to know what happened to your Trevin and his mother?”

His cold remark suddenly reminded me of the severed finger I had seen that morning. Nausea surged again. I tried my best to hold back the urge to vomit and asked him, “What do you want to say?”

Reynaldo stuck to me closely. His big palm pressed against the back of my head, his warm lips almost touching my earlobe. I was tense, feeling only the scorching heat of his breath on my neck. I shouted his name fearfully, “Reynaldo…”

He chuckled softly in my ear. “The women I’ve been with, even if I don’t want them anymore, I won’t allow others to covet them. So, guess what I did to your Trevin?”

I trembled and didn’t dare to speak. This was the first time I saw such a Reynaldo—cold and bloodthirsty, like a demon crawling out of hell. With a smile, he casually said, “I had his hands and feet chopped off and threw them out of Freybourne to fend for themselves. What do you think of my punishment?”

Cut off both hands and feet? I trembled, looking at him with a fearful expression for the first time. I only knew he was gloomy, moody, complex, and unpredictable, but I never expected him to be so bloodthirsty and cruel. At that moment, I was truly afraid of him, genuinely scared from the bottom of my heart.

Reynaldo gently touched my cold cheeks and chuckled, “Why is your face so pale? What happened? Feeling sorry for your Trevin?”

Trevin and his mother tried to do such things to me, and naturally I wouldn’t pity them. I just felt the man in front of me was terrifying, and that terror refreshed my understanding. I looked into his dark, gloomy eyes and asked with a trembling voice, “Will you… cut off my limbs?”

“You, uh…” He chuckled lightly, suddenly releasing my hair and gently stroking it. He said, “That depends on whether you will listen or not.”

“Reynaldo…” I tugged at his lapel, persistently asking, “Would you cut off my limbs?”

Reynaldo played with my hair and laughed nonchalantly. “It depends on my mood. You’re always so disobedient. If one day you really manage to annoy me, I don’t know what I might do to you.”

Chapter 198