Pampered by My Ex's Cousin

Chapter 585 - 577: His Warmth (Ten)

Not letting herself think further, she quickened her steps and started running in the heavy rain.

Not knowing how far behind, a car came from behind her, its lights growing closer and brighter.

They made the road ahead of her even brighter.

The car slowed down when it reached her side, just slightly faster than her running pace, and stopped just ahead of her.

Ji Anning had noticed that the car had stopped for her, so she also slowly halted, glanced at the vehicle, an unfamiliar car with an unfamiliar license plate.

Who is it?

She felt a bit scared and watched the opening rear door of the car warily.

Two tall, sharply dressed women got out of the car, each holding an umbrella, and walked in unison towards Ji Anning, who stepped back.

"Who are you?"

"Miss Niannian."

As the two women approached, one of them nodded slightly to Ji Anning, called her name, and offered the umbrella she was holding to Ji Anning.

This address... Charles!

Ji Anning immediately thought of Charles and reviewed the women standing before her again, only then realizing they were wearing Charles’s personal bodyguard uniform.

Shocked, she continued to back away, watching the two women warily, and asked, "What do you want?"

So Charles had been following her all along.

She should have realized that!

The two women chased after her with the umbrella, "Mr. Charles asked us to invite Miss Niannian to come back."

"I’ll call Mr. Charles," Ji Anning said as she felt her pocket, only to remember she didn’t have her phone with her.

What to do, she didn’t want to go back yet, couldn’t go back.

"Niannian."

While Ji Anning hesitated about how to escape, a familiar voice suddenly came from the car.

Charles! Charles was here too!

She stared, looking over, a middle-aged man, like a demon or Satan, got out of the car.

The driver on the driver’s seat got out first, setting up the umbrella at the car door waiting for him.

Ji Anning stared, mouth agape and called out, "Mr. Charles."

Charles stood at the car door and did not move, his deep blue eyes looking at Ji Anning, somber and frosty.

The more Ji Anning watched, the more frightened she became, her steps retreating involuntarily.

Charles ignored her reaction, raised his eyebrow and asked, "Since he doesn’t care about you, do you still want to stay by his side with Fenfen?"

Indeed, Ji Anning had entertained that idea, to stay by his side with Fenfen, living a mundane life where she could see him every day.

Even if they couldn’t touch, even if they couldn’t be together.

But... that was merely her wishful thinking.

However, even if she couldn’t stay by her uncle’s side, she definitely couldn’t return to the Charles’s place either, she didn’t want to be used as a tool for him to take revenge on the old man.

She had no feelings for the old man who once disregarded her feelings, her life and death, and forced her, just because she didn’t want to be used.

Thinking this, Ji Anning looked at Charles and said, "Mr. Charles, thank you for your help over the past two years, but I don’t want to go back to the Charles’s house anymore, and I won’t stay by his side, just as you said, he doesn’t need me anymore."

Upon hearing this, Charles’s expression turned cold, "Do you know the consequences of defying me?"

"I do." Ji Anning nodded, her fists clenched tightly behind her legs.

Charles sneered, "It seems you’re not afraid."

"Afraid," Ji Anning tilted her chin slightly, gathering her courage, "but I can’t constantly go against my own heart and torment it just because I’m afraid."