Free Web NovelChapter 47: Chapter 47: Very Good, You’ve Learned to Eat and Run! (2)
"Georgia Thorne, you’ve scared me twice today!" Nancy Hughes said angrily, dropping the broom. "I thought a burglar had broken in!"
"I just went downstairs for a walk."
Nancy Hughes’s sharp eyes spotted the bag in her hand. "You went shopping? Did you buy medicine?"
Georgia Thorne instinctively hid the birth control pills behind her back and grunted in affirmation. "My throat feels a little scratchy. I think I might be catching a cold."
Georgia Thorne had been crying that afternoon, so her voice did sound different than usual.
Nancy Hughes didn’t suspect a thing. Georgia Thorne was clearly in a bad mood, so she just offered a piece of advice. "Get some sleep. A good night’s sleep will help you forget all the bad things that happened today."
Touched by her good friend’s comfort, Georgia Thorne nodded and went into her room.
There was still some cold water in the teacup.
She popped a pill from the blister pack and put it in her mouth.
’Good thing Nancy Hughes didn’t see.’
She spent the weekend resting at home, and on Monday, she went to work.
Georgia Thorne made breakfast while Nancy Hughes was still asleep. She hastily ate a few bites, grabbed her things, and rushed off to work.
Just as she got downstairs, she saw a sapphire blue sports car parked in front of the apartment building.
It was a very flashy car, the first time she’d ever seen one like it in all the time she’d lived here.
She glanced down at the time, gave the car a passing look, and quickened her pace.
Inside the car, Zane Lennox didn’t even have time to get out before he saw Georgia Thorne walking away.
To his surprise, it was as if she hadn’t even seen him.
The smile on his face vanished instantly.
He stepped on the gas, keeping pace with her.
After walking for a stretch, just as she was nearing the bus stop, Georgia Thorne noticed something was off.
That sports car seemed to have been following her, maintaining a steady, unhurried pace.
Was it her imagination? Or...
Just as Georgia Thorne was wondering, her phone rang.
She took it out and saw it was an unfamiliar number.
She answered hesitantly. ’It might be a client.’
"Hello, this is Georgia Thorne. May I ask who’s calling?"
Zane Lennox held the steering wheel with one hand, listening to Georgia Thorne’s voice come through the speakerphone.
She didn’t know who he was, so her tone was polite. Her soft, feminine voice was like a spring breeze, gently caressing his heart.
It was so pleasant to listen to that his annoyance at being ignored began to fade.
"Look behind you."
The phone distorted the sound of his voice, so Georgia Thorne didn’t recognize that it was Zane Lennox.
She turned her head in suspicion and saw the sports car stopped behind her.
Even more confused, she then heard the man on the other end of the line say, "I’m right here."
As he spoke, Zane Lennox pushed open the car door and got out of the sapphire blue sports car.
It was a very romantic scene, and Zane Lennox expected Georgia Thorne to be too stunned to speak.
In fact, Georgia Thorne was indeed too stunned to speak.
But her reaction afterward was completely unexpected.
Georgia Thorne hung up the phone and greeted the man leaning against the car.
"Mr. Lennox, what a coincidence seeing you here. I have to get to work, so I’ll be going now!"
Her attitude was still polite, her smile so perfect that no one could find fault with it.
But Zane Lennox despised this kind of fake smile from her. It was a smile that radiated indifference.
’She’s trying to avoid me.’
Zane Lennox moved extremely quickly, catching up to her in a few large strides and grabbing her wrist firmly.
"Zane Lennox, what are you doing!" Georgia Thorne immediately tried to shake off his hand in disgust.
’Just as I thought. She’s disgusted by me!’
’It’s because she’s disgusted that she’s so desperate to get away from me.’
’She clearly didn’t resist when I kissed her that night.’
’Or is it because of that kiss that she wants to avoid me?’
As this thought crossed his mind, his grip on her arm tightened. "I came here specifically to take you to work."
"What?!"
"Or did you think I drove all the way from the city center to this dump of yours just for a joyride?!" Zane Lennox said, his tone full of disdain for where she lived.
Georgia Thorne was utterly astonished to hear this.
She almost suspected she was hearing things.
She struggled but couldn’t break free from Zane Lennox’s grasp.
"Zane Lennox, you’re hurting me!" Georgia Thorne’s brow furrowed tightly.
Zane Lennox loosened his grip apologetically and gave a slight smile. "The more you try to run, the tighter I want to hold on."
Georgia Thorne was speechless.
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Georgia Thorne took a deep breath, trying to clear her thoughts.
She looked up at Zane Lennox and said, "Zane Lennox, I don’t think we’re close enough for you to be driving me to work."
Driving someone to work was something couples did, not practical strangers like them.
Georgia Thorne said it bluntly, not wanting to get any more involved with Zane Lennox.
Zane Lennox’s expression turned cold. He truly hadn’t expected Georgia Thorne to say that.
He was in no mood for apologies or claims of "no other intentions."
"Zane Lennox, I have to get to—"
"I’ll give you two choices. One, you get in my car willingly. Two, I carry you into it." Zane Lennox tightened his grip on her wrist, cutting her off coldly.
"Zane Lennox, I’ve already made myself perfectly clear—ah!"
The hand gripping her wrist yanked, and her body was suddenly lifted off the ground.
Finding herself in Zane Lennox’s arms, Georgia Thorne instinctively grabbed his lapels. She glanced down at the ground and roared angrily, "Zane Lennox!"
"I made myself perfectly clear to you, too. Two choices, and you chose the latter." Zane Lennox gave a roguish smirk, bent down, and whispered laughingly in her ear, "Actually, I like holding you like this, too."
Georgia Thorne was speechless.
’He’s such an overbearing man.’ Georgia Thorne frowned, trying her best to keep her distance from Zane Lennox.
After all, no matter how much she tried to shrink away in his arms, she couldn’t avoid being close to him.
Zane Lennox placed her in the passenger seat. "If you don’t want to put on your seatbelt, I’d be more than happy to help."
As he spoke, his flirtatious gaze swept over Georgia Thorne.
Georgia Thorne blushed and immediately retorted in a gruff voice, "No need!"
She quickly pulled the seatbelt and buckled it. ’I’m going to lose my mind!’
When Zane Lennox parked his flashy sports car in front of Georgia Thorne’s office building, it had already attracted a lot of attention.
She suddenly felt the urge to not get out of the car.
As she hesitantly unbuckled her seatbelt, she heard the man beside her say, "What, do you need me to carry you out of the car, too?"
She turned her head to meet his smiling eyes and said through gritted teeth, "Zane Lennox, what exactly are you trying to do?"
"I thought you would know!"
’How could I possibly know!’
Georgia Thorne didn’t want to waste any more words on this man. She angrily pushed open the door and got out of the car.
Many of her colleagues saw her and, realizing the woman getting out of the luxury sports car was Georgia Thorne, immediately grew scornful.
’Women in sales hook up with men so easily.’
’That sports car Georgia got out of must be at least five or six million. The sugar daddy she’s hooked must be loaded.’
Some were envious of Georgia Thorne, others looked down on her. ’He must be some old, ugly man.’
However, when Zane Lennox got out of the car, all the women who had been sneering at Georgia Thorne were stunned.
’It’s Zane Lennox!’
Zane Lennox was very famous. As the president of the Lennox Group, he had only been with the company for a year but had already brought the entire staff, from top to bottom, in line.
It wasn’t just his reputation; his looks also made him one of the most sought-after eligible bachelors.
"Georgia, I’ll pick you up after work tonight, and we’ll go home together!"
Zane Lennox’s appearance alone was enough to shock the women.
But then he just had to go and deliberately say something so suggestive, making sure everyone would misunderstand.
