Chapter 576

When he noticed how frightened Eloise was—with her eyes welling up with tears and her body trembling uncontrollably—Ryan couldn't help but feel a pang of guilt. It seemed like he shouldn't have made such a joke with her. "I was just messing with you! Please don't cry!" With a sigh of relief, Eloise's face regained some color. She looked timidly at Ryan and said, "Please don't pull these kinds of pranks on me again, Ryan. It could easily lead to misunderstandings with the other ladies." Ryan's brow furrowed as he mulled over Eloise's remark. "What do you mean by misunderstandings?" After being stranded on a deserted island, with only one man among the women, it was perfectly normal for him to be intimate with any of them. What was there to misunderstand? Eloise's gaze darted around nervously. She occasionally glanced behind Ryan. "I'm worried that the other ladies might misunderstand and think I intentionally brought you to the woods to be intimate with you." So, that was what