Chapter 431

After a long stretch of silence, a scornful chuckle broke the stillness. "Seriously? That’s just straight-up naive." Hanson Bentley tilted his head a bit, a smirk tugging at his pale face. A bead of water slid slowly down from his forehead—hard to tell if it was sweat or just water dripping from the damp cloth. He casually wiped it away, still wearing that amused look. "Miss Fields, you’ve been cursing me the entire way here. Gotta say, your descriptions are pretty spot-on. But telling all that to a lunatic—don’t you think that’s a little stupid?" Trying to make a crazy man act noble? Bargain with him? That’s almost laughable. "You saying that kinda proves my point. But I still have to ask, Mr. Bentley…" Claire Thompson copied his head tilt and shot him a playful smirk. "What exactly were you thinking when you pulled me out of the water?" If he truly was just a heartless demon, why did he save her in a life-or-death moment? Doesn’t that make things… ironic? Hanson snorted lightly. "You