"Knock, knock-"
"Little Specky, are you swimming inside the bathroom?" Adrienne was not yet done washing herself up, but Jefferson was already knocking on the door and yelling. He really was a pain in the a*s.
"Why don't you come in and swim on your own?" Adrienne itched to reply that to him, but she attempted to control her temper. "I will be done soon," she answered.
Jefferson leaned against the door and said, "Little Specky, I had a sudden thought."
"What's the matter?" Adrienne put on her bathrobe, opened the door, and went out. She got a towel to dry her hair. As she was not wearing her spectacles, she looked at him a little dopily, which appeared quite endearing to Jefferson.
He averted his gaze reluctantly and asked, "If I hadn't come earlier on, would you have gotten a room with Zelson?"
Jefferson had not forgotten Zelson's sly gaze when he was looking at Adrienne. D*mn, if he had not arrived in time, who knows what Zelson would have done, Jefferson thought.
"Yes." Adrienne nodded honestly. She had agreed to Zelson's suggestion to stay together at a hotel earlier on. If Jefferson had not come, the one accompanying her at this moment would certainly be Zelson.
Earlier on, Jefferson had taken her away. She wondered how Zelson was doing at this instant.
Adrienne decided to call Zelson later.
Jefferson raised his tone and questioned, "Adrienne, do you f*cking know what your're saying?"
"What's wrong with you now?" Adrienne asked. She didn't know what she had done to provoke him and get him so enraged again. This man really liked making mountains out of molehills, she thought.
Jefferson had just been thinking that Adrienne was pretty, but at this instant, he could only see an idiot. He asked, "Do you know that you're a married woman?"
Adrienne asked, "Jefferson, can you stop being unreasonable and talk about it civilly?"
"I'm being unreasonable? How can you, an idiot, criticize me while you were fully prepared to share a room with another man behind my back?"
"What's wrong with that? We would have been sleeping on separate beds," Adrienne answered. She was so infuriated, but in order not to egg him on, she tried to explain to him, "Jefferson, can you stop being so dirty-minded? Zelson is not only my superior, but he's also the mentor who lead me into this field. He is an honest man, unlike you."
"Unlike me?" These two words were like a fuse which blew up Jefferson instantly. "Would you believe me if I said I'd kill you now?"
"Jefferson, go take a leak and look at yourself and then compare yourself with Mr. Zelson. Isn't he a better person than you? Isn't he more honest than you? Isn't he more trustable than you?" Adrienne had a lot to say in reply but she did not dare to voice it out because she knew Jefferson too well. If she said these words to him, he would definitely kill her.
For the sake of keeping the peace, Adrienne continued dodging the topic. "Whatever, I'm going to bed."
"We're not done yet. Who allowed you to go to bed?" Jefferson argued. "I told you that Zelson was not a good person. Are you turning a blind ear to my words?"
Jefferson was ticking Adrienne off so much that she started to get a little mean. She retorted, "Yeah, yeah. Zelson is not a good person, neither is anyone else. You're the only good person in the world. Are you satisfied now?"
Zelson asked again, "In that case, what do you need to worry about, Mr. Hefner?"
Jefferson fell silent.
Once again, he was shut down by Zelson's rebuttal.
Zelson went on to criticize him, "Jefferson, I can tell you quite responsibly that if you continue to treat Adrienne in your so-called good manner, not only will you not be closer to her, but you will only push her farther and farther away from you. She is a human being with her own feelings and thoughts. She is not your possession. But you, Mr. Jefferson, you don't understand this key point at all."
"I don't understand?" Jefferson sneered. "Zenson, how long have you known Adrienne? Do you know how long I have known her? Don't think that just because you parade and preen around, you know our relationship well. She is my woman and also the person I protect. I will kill whoever has evil intentions towards her."
Jefferson definitely understood that Adrienne was a human being with her own feelings and thoughts. It was because he knew her too well that he treated her in his own way.
That night, she saw another murder at the place her parents were killed. Many had not seen how terrified she was, but he had seen it. If he didn't think of a way to distract her, if nothing else unexpected happened, she would have nightmares again that night.
It was not that Jefferson did not want to tell Adrienne that he loved her. He did not marry her for fun; he sincerely wanted to take good care of her for the rest of his life as her husband. However, Adrienne, that little idiot, did not believe it at all.
Since she didn't believe it at present, then he would wait. Jefferson had faith that she would be enlightened and understand him one day. He knew that it might be a very long process, but no matter how long it was, even if it was a lifetime, he was willing to wait for her.
It would be that way unless she told him personally that she did not need his love or his protection even after she understood his feelings for her.
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