Lucas Griffin's dark eyes were tightly locked on Amanda Jenkins' flushed little face.
A few days ago, when he first saw her sleeping under the sun.
He was certain he hadn't recognized the wrong person.
She was the woman who, like a little sun in that darkness, had once given him warmth.
Lucas Griffin released Amanda Jenkins' hand, his solid palm caressing her slender shoulders.
Actually, there was no need for verification, he merely wanted to force her to admit it.
To admit that he had once been a part of her life, and not just a stranger...
"Lucas Griffin, what the hell do you want?"
"Come with me to the United States."
"To the United States!?" Amanda Jenkins exclaimed in surprise, "Why should I go to the United States with you!"
Lucas Griffin was silent for a moment as if he wanted to say something to Amanda Jenkins, but seeing her utterly stubborn and impatient manner, his thin lips moved slightly, and he uttered two words, "Accompany me."
Amanda Jenkins felt like crying but had no tears, "Lucas Griffin, Young Master Griffin! What do you take me for! I don't have time to play with you, stop the car! I want to get out!"
Lucas Griffin frowned, pulling the struggling girl into his embrace.
Amanda Jenkins hit his sturdy chest with a thud, growing even angrier, she raised her head and bit fiercely into Lucas Griffin's neck.
"Let go!" Lucas Griffin gritted his teeth, enduring the pain.
Fearing he would hurt her, he didn't push her away with force, and with patience, commanded in a low voice, "Amanda Jenkins, let go of me!"
But Amanda Jenkins didn't release her bite, she was truly being driven insane by him!
If she did not show him some color, he'd really start treating her like his possession!
Jonas Jox quickly stopped the car at the roadside and, turning back anxiously to look at the two, unfastened his seatbelt, preparing to get out and help.
Suddenly, Lucas Griffin's eyebrows tightened, and he raised his right palm, chopping down on a specific point at the back of Amanda Jenkins' neck.
Amanda Jenkins fainted, her body falling backward.
Lucas Griffin immediately reached out to hold her head to prevent her from hitting the car window and then pulled her into his embrace.
The car finally became quiet...
Jonas Jox was stunned, "Kirin... Brother Kirin..."
Lucas Griffin touched his neck, his hand coming away with fresh red blood.
He looked down angrily at the unconscious Amanda Jenkins in his arms, exhaling a breath in frustration.
Truly a wildcat!!
"Brother Kirin, we should go to the nearest hospital to get that bandaged."
"No need." Lucas Griffin took out a brown checkered handkerchief from his suit pocket, casually wiping the blood from his neck.
"Brother Kirin, when chasing a girl, it's better to be gentle. My mom always says women are easy to appease."
Lucas Griffin frowned, "Who told you I'm chasing her? She's already mine, what's there to chase?"
"Uh..." Jonas Jox smirked sycophantically, "Brother Kirin is right, it was improper of me to say so. I also know that Brother Kirin is taking her to the United States to protect her. After the big scene at the old man's birthday banquet, and the bar fight yesterday, the whole Brocade City knows who Miss Jenkins is, and she's bound to get some hassle. If you take her to the United States for a week, by the time you come back, those gossipers will have quieted down. Also today, if it wasn't for you taking her away, letting her go to the hospital to apologize to Miss Bollock, with Miss Bollock's fiery temper, a fight on her return would have been inevitable. Brother Kirin, I feel Miss Jenkins is different from other girls, you should tell her these..."
"Enough with the crap!" Lucas Griffin's face darkened, "Drive!"
Jonas Jox quickly shut his mouth, turned around, and continued driving seriously, shaking his head helplessly though.
Proud as Lucas Griffin was, although he showed extraordinary gentleness to Amanda Jenkins, precisely because of this, he had never been gentle to anyone else and naturally did not know how to measure this tenderness.
The car started up.
Lucas Griffin looked down at Amanda Jenkins in his arms, thinking of his actions just now, and regret started to rise from the bottom of his heart again.
He truly wanted to give her all the best in the world, to protect and cherish her.
But she was just too stubborn, purely gentle and indulgent with her, and she would not be thankful at all!
Even if he told her the reason for taking her to the United States, she wouldn't care.
Regardless, he wouldn't let her run away again.
She couldn't escape...
...
When Amanda Jenkins woke up, she was lying in a bed, with the soft humming of machinery in her ears.
"You're awake."
Hearing Lucas Griffin's voice, Amanda Jenkins quickly looked toward the source of the sound.
She saw him sitting two meters away at a square table, with a lamp lit on it.
At that moment, Lucas Griffin was engrossed in his documents, not looking at Amanda.
Amanda rubbed her somewhat sore neck, trying hard to recall what had happened before.
"Lucas Griffin, what did you do to me?"
"I knocked you out," Lucas Griffin admitted calmly.
"You hit me!" Amanda abruptly stood up, felt dizzy again, and hastily leaned on the nearby wall.
"You bit me."
"That's because you deserved it!" Amanda didn't feel she was in the wrong at all, "Where is this?"
Lucas Griffin turned off the lamp on the table and pulled open the porthole beside him, "On a plane."
Intense sunlight streamed in from outside, and Amanda raised her hand to shield her eyes.
Through the gaps between her fingers, she could see the white clouds and blue sky outside the porthole.
Finally, Lucas Griffin turned his head and looked at her...
The bright sunlight seemed to cast a halo around him, with his handsome features half in sunlight and half in shadow.
Lucas Griffin lifted the corner of his lips, "Come with me to the United States."
For an instant, Amanda's heartbeat skipped because of his smile.
But that feeling was fleeting, as her heart filled with rage and unwillingness, "You! How did you bring me onto the plane? My ID and passport are at home."
"That's not needed, this is our family's private jet." Lucas Griffin pressed a button above his head.
Soon, a row of pretty flight attendants came forward one after another with food and placed it on the table.
Looking at the array of delicious food on the table, Amanda swallowed her saliva.
Since leaving the sanatorium yesterday, she hadn't eaten dinner and went to the bar with Derei; she didn't eat anything after being taken to the police station that evening, and this morning her father dragged her to the hospital.
Now, she was so hungry she could feel her front sticking to her back.
"Come eat," Lucas Griffin ordered, deliberately lowering his voice to make it sound gentler.
Amanda hesitated, and her stomach "gurgled" again.
Forget it, one cannot simply be at odds with one's own body; starving to death wouldn't leave anyone to claim her body.
Amanda walked over to the table, then hesitated again.
The ancients often said not to eat the food of pity.
If she ate now, it would mean bowing down to Lucas Griffin.
"Sit down and eat; these are all your favorite foods."
He pulled her hand, forcing her to sit down.
Amanda looked at the food on the table; indeed, each one was her favorite. She looked up at Lucas Griffin with confusion, "How do you know..."
"I know everything about you."
"Everything? What does that mean?"
"All your affairs." A faint smile appeared on the corner of his lips.
Amanda's heart faltered, he knows everything?
Did that also include the secrets she had deeply hidden?