Chapter 109: Chokehold
Seeing Asher’s thoughtful look, Mia instantly panicked and hurriedly covered up, “Er, I mean, I heard you didn’t live here before, how come you have a villa in this place now …”
As she explained, she cursed herself for being so stupid to ask so naturally? Wasn’t this the same as her own confession that she knew where Asher lived before and that she was Mia?
“Oh, you heard right, I wasn’t living in this place before, but then I changed for some reason!” Snapping closer to Mia, Asher’s smile was meaningful, “But you’re pretty well informed, I switched five years ago and you actually heard about it!”
Intuitively aware that Asher’s smile was unkind, Mia panicked even more and her speech turned stuttering, “No, no, I heard it by chance, by chance from someone, so don’t mind if I’m wrong.”
There was a silence.
“So don’t you want to know why I’m suddenly getting a new villa when I’m living in a nice one?” Just when Mia thought it would go on like that in silence, Asher suddenly spoke up quite abruptly and with his dark eyes locked on her as if waiting for the answer he intended.
“Why?” An inner voice was telling Mia never to ask, but instead, as if compelled by Asher’s deep, dark eyes, she murmured, “Why did you change places to live?”Copyright Nôv/el/Dra/ma.Org.
Asher, however, did not answer, only stood up and brought over a medical kit, took out red salve to gently wipe her red and swollen ankle, his voice was light, no emotion could be heard, “Because of a woman …”
Seemingly branded by Asher’s hand, Mia’s feet shook violently, and a heart fluttered along with it, looking at Asher’s side face in fascination, did he move out of that villa because of himself?
“Don’t move, I’ll medicate and disinfect you first, or you’ll get an infection.” Gently holding Mia’s tender white ankle, Asher’s voice was unusually gentle, “You close your eyes now and don’t worry about anything, I’ll be careful, it’ll be done in a moment.”
His voice, sensual and low, like an elegant and melodious cello, could almost compel one to sleep at ease.
It’s a moment, like Asher said, where Mia doesn’t want to think about anything, doesn’t want to say anything, just wants to be so still and quiet with Asher and enjoy this moment of peace!
However, this small wish of hers was dashed in the next moment as the voice of Lena’s exasperated voice soon came from the doorway, “What are you doing?”
With a soft sigh, Asher pressed on, ignoring Riina’s big shocked brat and continued to gently wipe Mia’s potion. It was Mia, on the contrary, who seemed to have the embarrassment of being caught red-handed and struggled a little, trying to push Asher’s hand away.
However, Asher acted as if he was against her, and instead of letting go, he gently took hold of her white paws with his large hands. His large hand, with its thick palm lines, gently rubbed Mia’s small foot, and a strange feeling flooded Mia’s heart.
“Why don’t you say something, and why is this woman here? What kind of place is this, is this something she can just come to at will?” Seeing Asher ignore herself, not even turning her head to look at herself, the anger in Riina’s heart deepened, rushing a few steps to the two men, pointing at Mia and questioning her, her voice sharp, almost piercing one’s eardrums in general.
Mia’s face was embarrassed and rolled with embarrassment when she was seen by Lena getting so “close” to Asher, she didn’t know how to react and couldn’t push Asher, so she hung her head desperately to hide her embarrassment.
This man, was he vowing to put himself in this awkward and embarrassing situation?
Asher looked up coldly, glanced faintly at the exasperated Leena, and said faintly, “Strange, if you can come to my villa, why can’t other people come?”
His voice was bland, spoken as a matter of course.
“Asher, what did you say?” Her face turned white in an instant, Leena looked at Asher incredulously, “Asher, I am your fiancee, what kind of a thing is she? Who is she to dare to come to your villa? You tell her to get lost, you tell her to get lost! Do you hear me?”
The current Lina, where there is still a trace of graceful and noble demeanor, because the loss of feelings like crazy, and the street shrew has no difference.
Suddenly, Lena growled and lunged at Mia, grabbing her by the neck and saying viciously, “It’s all because of you, it’s all because of you, I’m going to strangle you, I’m going to strangle you … Do you know how much I want you to suddenly disappear, only you disappear …”
“Lina, what are you doing, you’re crazy!” Suddenly straightening up, she pulled away from the crazy Lina, her face was blue and her voice was so cold that it could almost freeze, “Look what you look like now, don’t you dare touch a hair on her head again!”
“Fine, Asher, I’m your fiancée, and you’re actually protecting this woman, are you still holding out hope for this woman, right?” At this moment, as if she was really mad, Lina surprisingly didn’t fear Asher as much as she usually did and questioned viciously.
In pulling away from Lena, Asher used almost ten percent of his strength, without the slightest mercy at all, Lena was a woman after all, a stumble had fallen to the ground, in a mess. A pair of carefully manicured eyes also gradually coalesced with a malevolent glow, looking fiercely at Mia.
Asher held Mia who kept stroking his neck, his handsome face was full of worry, when he turned his head to look at Lina, his voice was immediately cold as if it came from hell, “Lina, I’m telling you, if you dare to hurt her even a little bit, I will never let you go! Don’t talk about your fiancee’s identity every moment, that identity is given to you by me, I can take it away anytime, you’re actually too stupid to even think about this?”
Riina’s face, completely bloodless, wretchedly rose from the ground, her face full of tears, looking at Asher with a desperate expression, “Asher, what do you take me for, your toy, to stay by your side if you like it, to throw aside if you don’t? You treat my marriage like a child’s play and play me for a fool …”
“Lena, what you want from me, I’m sure you understand better than anyone. You put up with it because you know full well that the life you want is the only one I can give you! If it weren’t for that, could you put up with me over and over again?” Glancing coldly at the wretched Riina, Asher’s voice was cold and merciless, stabbing at Riina like a sharp sword.
Stronger unions are rarely about emotions in the first place.
Only to think that the only people in the world who could be worthy of each other!
Riina froze, sniffling, “Asher, don’t you think, how much I love you? Yes, I do think you’re the only one who can deserve me, but, more than anything, I’m staying by your side because I love you!”
“Shut up!” Asher interrupted her coldly, “Don’t you say the word love, if you say it, you insult the word! Also, the reason I’ve been turning a blind eye to some of the things you’ve done before is because I still care about who you are, and if you ever lay a finger on her again, I won’t be as polite as I was before!”
Asher’s voice, without a hint of emotion, and Lena’s eyes, suddenly welled up with despair!
This man, he wouldn’t pity her one bit!
“Asher, why would you do this to me, it’s not fair to me!” After a few seconds of pause, Leena finally removed all pretense and dropped to the floor, crying out without the slightest concern for her image.
Her voice was tinged with endless despair.
Everything she’d feared had finally come true!
Asher carefully examined Mia’s white neck, heartbreakingly looking at the red fingerprints left on her neck, becoming even more indignant at Riina’s actions and turning her head to say coldly, “Riina, I’m telling you, there’s never been any fairness with me. If you really want fairness, then fine, break the engagement and you’ll get it!”
“No, no, I don’t want to, I don’t want to break the engagement, I don’t want a marriage engagement!” Suddenly raising her tear-stained face, Riina’s face was filled with panic and helplessness as she desperately waved her hands and shouted helplessly, “Asher, I was wrong, I was really wrong, I shouldn’t have done this … As long as you don’t break the engagement, I promise you everything, okay? ”
Asher gave her a cold look and didn’t say anything, his dark eyes were already overflowing with disgust, it was getting to him every time Anna did this!
Seeing that Asher still wanted to get angry, Mia gently took his big hand, shook her head at him and said in a low voice, “You should stop saying that, she’s quite pathetic too … knowing that she can’t get it, but she’s still desperately trying to get it back… …”
Yeah, relationships are almost always like that, knowing you can’t get it, knowing it doesn’t belong to you, but refusing to die and trying desperately to get it back …
Feelings, do they have to be so tortured by each other?
“Miss Leng, I beg you, I beg you, please help me plead, I really can’t leave Asher, I really can’t leave him. If I leave him, I’ll really die!” Suddenly hearing Mia’s words, Lina’s eyes, which had already dried up in despair, suddenly burst out with hope and brilliance, lunging forward and tugging tightly on Mia’s sleeve.
She seems to have completely forgotten that she had just choked Mia with the vicious intent of putting her to death!
Disgust, pity and helplessness, all intertwined in Mia’s eyes at the same time, five years ago, she knew what kind of character Riina was, five years have passed and Riina’s character doesn’t seem to have changed at all!
All she cares about is herself, always!