Chapter 10 Do You Want Me So Badly

Elijah held Giselle's slender waist and pulled her strongly into his arms. A light herbal scent traveled up his nostrils, and it smelled familiar to him. Before he could determine whether it was the scent he smelled at night, Giselle had already escaped from his embrace. She lowered her head and thanked him. His eyes turned cold at the way she distanced herself from him, and he took a step back to draw a distance between them. Taking a look outside, he asked Giselle again, "What are you doing here?" "Mrs. Cobb has other matters to attend to and told me to prepare the bath water," Giselle answered honestly. Elijah brushed his gaze over her, as though he wanted to see through her pretense, but his eyes stopped at the necklace around her neck. "Your necklace is—" Only then did Giselle realize that her necklace had slipped out. Hurriedly, she tucked it back beneath her shirt. "It's a very important keepsake from my mother." The look in Elijah's eyes gradually turned dark, and the a