Chapter 11 Determined To Seduce Him.
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With a splash, Zachary emerged from the water, his hair wet and slicked back. As soon as he saw Drayton, he greeted him. casually, as if it were the most natural thing in the world. “Uncle Drayton, when did you get back?”
He leaned closer to Janelle, his voice dropping to a whisper. “This handsome guy is my uncle, Drayton. He’s the CEO of our family business. He usually comes off as aloof and serious, but don’t mind him.”
Janelle, still processing the unexpected turn of events, blinked in disbelief. “Your uncle… he’s the one?”
“Yeah”
Janelle couldn’t help but ask, still in shock. “What’s your actual name?”
“Zachary Quiller!” he replied with a grin. “How could you not know yet?”
Janelle glanced back toward the shore, but by the time she did, the brooding man had already walked off, leaving her to
digest the revelation
“Let’s keep exploring,” Zachary said nonchalantly, “My uncle might have just made a quick trip home. He’s probably off to deal with company matters soon, don’t mind him.”
Janelle’s mind, however, was far from focused on the swimming. Floating on her back, her thoughts were consumed by the
chilling expression on Drayton’s face from earlier. With Zachary’s revelation lingering in her mind, she felt a swirling mix of confusion and curiosity.
Suddenly, the sound of footsteps interrupted her thoughts. She turned to see the butler, Nedley, approaching Zachary by the poolside. “Mr. Zachary,” he said with a respectful tone, “Mr. Quiller has requested your presence in his room. He has something important to relay.”
Though feeling somewhat disappointed, Zachary had no choice but to first make his way ashore and head toward the living
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Realizing she was in Drayton’s territory, Janelle lost the desire to continue swimming. With a resigned sigh, she dragged her drenched body out of the pool and headed for the nearby bathroom to shower and change.
Under the hot water, as it cascaded over her, she let her mind wander. Her thoughts were a bit scattered, but one thing was clear–she could never have predicted that Zachary was Drayton’s nephew.
What a cliché!
It felt like something straight out of a melodramatic story.
The mansion she had visited before, where she had first met him, now seemed like just a place he used to entertain women This was the real home where he lived.
She didn’t dwell on it any longer. After less than ten minutes, she quickly got dressed and left the bathroom.
She had initially planned to slip away unnoticed, but her million–dollar purse was still in the living room, with her phone and car keys tucked inside. Left with no choice, she had to feign nonchalance as she made her way toward the living room.
Unexpectedly, just as she had barely stepped into the living room and was looking around for her bag, she abruptly felt someone roughly yanking her hair from behind.
She felt a sharp pain in her scalp, which instinctively led her to let out a shrill scream. In response to the pain, her head. involuntarily jerked back..
Upon looking up, she met the furious, blazing eyes of Drayton!
“You-”
Janelle’s gaze swept across the room, noticing no trace of Zachary. It was then she realized that Drayton had already managed
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to discreetly send him away under some pretext.
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Tell me, when did you start getting involved with Zachary?” He gripped her hair fiercely, bringing his face close to hers. gritting his teeth as he interrogated, “Did you deliberately get close to him?”
Confronted with his dangerous countenance, Janelle didn’t even blink an eye.
She didn’t bother to resist, letting him tug at her. Teasingly, she asked. “Why so worked up? Are you jealous because you saw me having fun with another man?”
Upon hearing these words, he grew even more agitated, his forehead veins bulging in frustration. In his fit of anger, he forcefully pushed her back onto the sofa.
Janelle’s head had collided with the armrest of the sofa. She instantly grimaced in pain, her head spinning somewhat.
“You’re free to mingle with uncouth men, it’s none of my business”
Drayton stared at her with a gloomy gaze, grinting his teeth as he warned, “But I’m telling you, don’t dare to provoke Zachary jagain, don’t even think about getting any closer to him, or I swear I’ll end you!”
It became glaringly obvious to Janelle that her affair with Zachary was something Drayton took seriously–far more seriously than she had ever imagined.
Yet, Janelle had long grown weary of his constant threats. As someone who thrived on the adrenaline of extreme sports and feared nothing, the idea of being intimidated by him, or even death itself, seemed laughable to her.
And so, she simply leaned casually on the sofa, shooting Drayton a mischievous smile.
With a fearless, almost reckless provocation, Janelle shot back. “I’ll keep seeing him if I want to. Go ahead, kill me if you dare. Who’s afraid of whom, huh?”
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