Free Web NovelChapter 119: Haunted House
’’If you are tired, let’s go home. We can bring our little princess out to play some other time,’’ Ryle continued whispering in Daisy’s ear.
But Lu Xian whose ears had grown by a few inches heard everything. What was that ’our’? The man was acting like they were a happy family of three.
Daisy did not find anything different about Ryle’s words because he had always doted on Angel like that, ’’I am not that tired,’’ It’s just heels. Since Angel seemed to be enjoying her trip to the amusement park so far, she wanted her to explore some more.
’’Cough...’’
Lu Xian coughed a few times and Daisy remembered that the man was still there.
’’What are you doing here in an amusement park at this hour?" she turned to ask the man. Even though they were not extremely close and she had a bad past with the Lu Family but he had always extended a helping hand towards her so she did not find it a necessity to treat him like air.
’’I had... a meeting here,’’ Lu Xian paused for a moment before he continued, ’’But I did not expect that I would bump into you. It was a surprise. A pleasant one, nevertheless.’’
Daisy nodded, ’’Well... ah...’’
A sound escaped her mouth when Ryle’s hand unconsciously trailed lower and tightened around her waist.
Ryle was not even aware of his tightened grip until he saw her glaring at him. He cleared his throat and rubbed the spot where he had held her waist gently, ’’My hand slipped. Angel will be tired if we spend time standing here and chitchatting nonsense. Why don’t we take her around?" frёewebnoѵel.ƈo๓
As if on cue, the little girl had already lost her interest in the toy she won from the rigorous shooting sessions and her wandering eyes had found themselves another amusement.
She wilfully swayed her calves in Ryle’s arms and looked at the spot with sparkling eyes, ’’Mommyyy... Angeeel... g... stie....’’
’’Raeeel... raeeel...’’
The three people looked in the direction Angel was pointing at.
And Daisy’s expression changed when she saw where the little girl wanted to go, ’’No.’’
Fat teardrops sparkled on the corner of Angel’s eyes at her mother’s stern ’no’.
But Daisy was not moved in the slightest.
Ryle’s lips twitched as the girl coquettishly rubbed her face on his suit jacket and hugged him with her little hands, almost dropping the doll she held. He chuckled, ’’Little princess, pick some other place. We are not going to the haunted house.’’
At the second denial, the tears that she had been holding back were set free as Angel started crying.
Ryle tried to coax her but her little face had turned red.
When Daisy coaxed her, she eventually grew quiet but there were dried tear stains on her face as she sadly looked at the haunted house and jumped back into Ryle’s arms from Daisy’s arms.
Ryle effortlessly held her as he touched the tip of his nose, ’’Fine, let’s go.’’
’’No.’’
’’It will be fine,’’ Ryle assured Daisy, ’’I’ll protect her.’’
’’It’s not about protection...’’ Daisy hesitated but when she looked at the little girl’s depressed face, she inhaled a deep breath and sighed, ’’Fine.’’
’’Are we really taking a child to the haunted house?"
They had just taken a few steps when they heard the voice.
Ryle halted in his tracks and turned around to look at the man behind Daisy, ’’We?" his lips curved up in a smile as he did a once over of the man before clicking his tongue, ’’Didn’t know you were that much of an idler.’’
’’Didn’t you say you had a meeting?" Daisy questioned the man.
"You don’t really think that he would have a meeting around here, do you?" Ryle looked at Daisy as if he was trying to figure out whether she was joking or she was serious.
"What else?" People who worked in the dark side did not necessarily organize their meetings in conventional setups. While Lu Xian was indeed the CEO of Lu Corporation, she knew the man was equally entrenched in the chasm of the underworld.
Ryle was speechless.
This woman had no issues facing assassins alone and dealing with syndicates but even a genius like her at times like this when she could not see a pest wriggling for her attention.
’’Well, I think there is some misunderstanding here. My meeting is in 2 hours,’’ Lu Xian said after checking the time on his watch, ’’I just ended up coming early so I have plenty of time to accompany you,’’ he looked at Ryle with a straight face.
Ryle’s smile grew wider but a vein popped on his forehead.
Just like that, the three of them, along with the little initiator of the activity went together inside the Haunted house.
But soon, Ryle felt like something was amiss.
The woman who gave him a look when he wrapped an arm around her waist was walking by his side and occasionally her hand would graze past him in the dim setup of the cave.
Initially, he was confused but in the next few moments when Daisy hooked her hand around his vacant arm, he realized something.
Was the woman afraid of getting close to him in the broad daylight? And when it was dark, she had no inhibitions.
There was no other way he could describe this situation.
Happiness came too suddenly.
Like the gentleman that he was, he opened his mouth to speak, ’’Daze..’’
’’Mm?" Daisy did not even bother glaring at him over the nickname.
’’You should have told me sooner about this. We could have worked it out.’’
"Told you what...?" Daisy whispered in a soft voice.
Lu Xian leaned closer to eavesdrop on the people who seemed to be whispering to each other.
Ryle sighed, ’’That you prefer...’’ dark.
"Ahhhhh! Ghost!"
Ryle’s sentence had yet to finish when an ear-piercing scream erupted in the cave-like place as Lu Xian covered his ears with both his hands and cowered to a corner.
Ryle’s lips thinned, ’’You... Do you have no sense of shame being scared....’’ his words trailed off when a soft body bumped into his chest.
Daisy hugged his waist tightly with one hand.
Ryle glanced at the little girl whom he was holding on one side of his body and then his gaze settled on the girl’s mother who had thrown herself onto the other side. freewebnσvel.cѳm
’’It’s okay to be scared,’’ With an effortless transition in his words and voice, Ryle stroked Daisy’s back.
Even Angel was looking at her mother with the same curiosity, ’’Mommy?" the little ball mumbled as she blinked her wide eyes.
’’I am not scared,’’ Daisy said.
It suddenly made sense why Daisy was reluctant to step inside the haunted house.
’’Yes, you are not,’’ Ryle had just consoled the woman when he felt a tug on his suit jacket.
He looked above his shoulder and his gaze landed on Lu Xian who was standing behind him.
’’I have a poor eyesight. I can’t see properly in the dark,’’ Lu Xian muttered with a straight face.
’’Get your fingers off,’’ Ryle’s eyes narrowed, ’’Do I look like I am your bodyguard?" With that said, Ryle held Daisy in his arms and stepped to the side but Lu Xian followed him with a straight face as if he had no reputation to consider.
’’Wooo...’’
’’G...stie...’’
’’No, it’s a ghost,’’ Ryle taught the little girl patiently as they went deeper inside the cave.
’’Gh... stttt... Raeeel! Woooo!"
The person he was worried about the most was enjoying the trip inside the haunted house while the people who had expressed concern for the child before they mentioned had at some point glued themselves to Ryle with every ghost that appeared on their way.
"Ghostieee... woooo...’’ By the time they stepped out of the haunted house, two things had happened. For one, Angel’s pronunciation improved along with her mood after a thrilling experience inside the haunted house, and as for the second, Ryle’s back and chest were soaked in sweat.
Ryle tilted his head to the side and glanced at the man who was still clinging to him like a leech, ’’Get off.’’
Without waiting for the man to come to his senses, he swung his free shoulder to shrug him off.
Being disdained like that, Lu Xian cleared his throat and said aloofly, ’’I am getting late for my meeting. I’ll leave now...’’ He had taken a few steps when he stopped and looked at Daisy who was detaching herself from Ryle. His gaze lingered on her.
Ryle’s face darkened.
Once Lu Xian left, Ryle also continued walking forward without saying another word to Daisy.
’’Hey...’’ Daisy chased after him, confused.
She could not understand why he looked like somebody had stolen his billions. But all the way to his car, he did not speak to Daisy.
Daisy was bewildered.
