Chapter 44

However, when I pushed open the bathroom door, I was completely stunned.

I saw Reynaldo leaning against the sink inside, holding a mobile phone in hand, wearing a loose robe with the collar open. The scratches on his muscular chest were particularly noticeable.

I instinctively averted my gaze and asked him, “You haven’t left yet?”

“I received a phone call.”

Reynaldo walked up to me, lowered his gaze, and looked at me with a deep and somewhat frightening expression.

I wondered and followed his gaze, lowering my eyes to look at myself. After a moment, I pretended to cough and said uncomfortably, “Don’t look at me like that; don’t make it seem like you’ve never seen a woman before.”

Actually, I quite admire my present self. I can stand in front of him completely naked and speak without blushing or my heart skipping a beat. I remember in the past, after I finished taking a shower, I forgot to grab my pajamas. Seizing the opportunity while he was not in the room, I quickly ran out, but I happened to be caught by him just as he was coming in. At that time, my scream startled the whole family, and they all thought something was wrong with me.

Looking at me like this, I feel a little embarrassed, but I don’t have any other feelings. Let him watch if he wants to; anyway, he has already seen everything, it doesn’t matter.

Reynaldo leaned closer to me again, almost pressing his entire body against mine. He slightly bent down and whispered in my ear, “I have seen many women, but you are the first one to stand here so bare for me to see.”

“You…” I was speechless.

I didn’t wear clothes because I thought he had gone out. It was as if I intentionally didn’t wear clothes to show him, when it reached his mouth. Thinking that I still had to rush to the company to report, I didn’t want to get entangled with him either.

I reached out to push him. “Could you move aside a bit?”

However, he grabbed my wrist and leaned down to whisper in my ear, “What’s this? Didn’t get enough last night and now you’re trying to tempt me again?” He spoke while his hand ambiguously wandered around my waist.

I shrank my body and furrowed my brows to look at him. I discovered that this man had a characteristic: when he was angry, especially lacking confidence, feeling particularly inferior, he was always suspecting that his woman had betrayed him. But once he was in a good mood, he would become inexplicably confident, always thinking that women wanted to throw themselves at him and were tempting him. I really had no words to comment on his personality trait.

Just as I was thinking, the man’s hand slid even more inappropriately onto my chest. I glared at him indignantly.

He snorted coldly, “How can you be so absent-minded? Were you just thinking about another man?”

Look, look… He got angry again and started doubting everything without confidence.

I grabbed his hand and muffledly said, “I wasn’t thinking about anyone, just thinking about you.”

He clearly paused for a moment, then laughed incredulously, “Miss me?”

“Yeah, I wondered what you were up to this morning, blocking me here and not letting me brush my teeth and get ready!”

“Esmeralda!” he yelled at me angrily.

I impatiently pushed him away. If he kept on bothering me like this, I would definitely be late.

I walked up to the sink and took the toothbrush to get ready to brush my teeth. He suddenly approached as well, leaning against the sink, furrowing his brows as he looked at me and said, “Why did you wake up so early today?”

“Um, I’m busy,” I replied without looking up, squeezing toothpaste.

He stared at me for a few seconds and continued to ask, “Are you going out to look for a job again?”

I was brushing my teeth and ignored him.

He snorted and laughed, his tone cold and mocking. “If you could find a job, you would have found one already. Trust me, work is not suitable for you.”

I really hated it when he said things like “this job is not suitable for someone like you.”

I rinsed my mouth and smiled at him, saying, “Well, I’m sorry to disappoint you, but I have already found a job and will be reporting for duty today.”

Reynaldo laughed incredulously. “Actually, it’s not embarrassing to not find a job. You don’t need to keep telling lie after lie.”

I chuckled twice and couldn’t be bothered to explain it to him. I applied light makeup to myself and changed into a set of professional attire.