Chapter 33 The Instinctive Reaction
Chapter 33 The Instinctive Reaction
It seemed that Hiram wasn't pleased with what he saw.
"Hiram, stop acting like we're close. Stay away from me. You're so heavy, I can't breathe when you
press against me like that." Rachel turned off her phone and threw it onto the bed. She then shifted her
eyes to Hiram, annoyed.
"We're not close? Then why are you lying on my bed?" Hiram lay down beside Rachel without touching
her.
Rachel was shocked at the desire in Hiram's eyes. She slightly shifted away from him. "You told me
that you wouldn't touch me. You wouldn't touch me during this month. I think you still remember that."
"Are you saying I've done something wrong to you?" Hiram carefully observed the expression on
Rachel's face as he spoke.
She looked like she didn't like him.
Even after staying together for a couple of days, she didn't have any feelings for him at all.
He was taken aback by the realization.
"You haven't touched me, but your eyes have, " Rachel responded.
She'd seen Hiram glancing at her body several times. She wasn't blind, and she knew that he had
already observed her from head to toe.
Perhaps he had even figured out the measurements of her bust, waist and hip.
He raised his eyebrows and laughed. If he had heard her words while drinking a glass of water, he
would have spit the water on her face. "You've slept beside me in my bedroom several times. You
should be satisfied with the fact that I've never behaved like a lecherous man."
Rachel was speechless.
What he said was right, and he was good at behaving with restraint.
"So, you are attracted to me, right?" she asked suddenly.
"Why do you ask that?" Hiram didn't want to answer her.
At the beginning, he didn't like her even though she had a charming figure. However, last night, he felt
his heart race when knowing that she was in danger. He was usually always calm and he had never
been so nervous before.
Hiram wasn't a person with low EQ. It's just that he hadn't been infatuated with any woman before
because he'd never met anyone who could make his heart beat as fast as Rachel did.
He wasn't going to deny it to himself.
It seemed that he had started to like her.
"In all the blind dates I've gone on before, the men didn't really seem interested in me. They told me
that I'm not the type men would find attractive, " Rachel said after pondering over it for a little while.
She had never been in a relationship with anyone, and it made her less coquettish and attractive than
other women.
For example, most women would wear sexy clothes to attract the men they were dating. But Rachel
always worn large T-shirts, hiding her figure from everyone.
"The ordinary men only see superficial things. I'm different from them, "
Hiram said in a calm voice, looking at her seriously.
Rachel sneered. 'How does he always take every chance he gets to boast about himself?' she thought.
But she remained silent.
She wondered why he was staring at her like that.
She'd taken a shower only a while ago, so there wouldn't be any dirt on her face. Contentt bel0ngs to N0ve/lDrâ/ma.O(r)g!
"Hiram, please don't look at me like that." Rachel began to blush as she saw Hiram watching her
intently.
Noticing that she looked a bit shy, Hiram smiled slightly and rested his chin on his hand. "I remember
that you once gave me a lovely pet name. I like it."
Rachel nearly broke into laughter the moment she saw him smile so lasciviously.
Keeping a straight face, she said, "You must have misheard me. I didn't give you any lovely pet name.
But I did call your names sometimes."
After all, he was such an annoying and wicked man.
"I know. But I'll stick to believing what I have heard." Hiram replied without a trace of surprise on his
face.
Rachel surely wasn't going to call him by any "lovely pet name." In her eyes, he was just as aggressive
as a wolf.
"I like that pet name. You can call me that from now on, " he added.
However, Rachel didn't agree with him.
"I'm not gonna do that. You're just my nominal husband, not a real one. I can't waste my affection on
you, " she said bluntly.
She didn't want to call him that just to please him. And besides, she was worried that she would fall in
love with him if she did it all the time.
So when she said those words to Hiram, she was also talking to herself.
The joy on Hiram's handsome face faded away. He turned away from Rachel and said, "It's late. We
should sleep now."
"I'm not sleepy. By the way, how did you know my company's address?
Also, what happened this afternoon was strange. Did you have anything to do with it?"
Hiram kept silent, so she didn't bother asking him anything else.
She grabbed her own quilt and tucked herself in. She lay beside Hiram with a clear gap between them.
They had come to an agreement at the beginning that if they were going to sleep on the same bed,
they wouldn't share a quilt or disturb each other.
However, at midnight, Rachel faintly felt Hiram's hand resting on her shoulder under the quilt, his arm
pressing against her chest.
She tried to open her eyes and push his arm away, but she was too tired. She slept soundly that night,
letting him do whatever he wanted to.
The next morning arrived.
Rachel had had a good sleep last night. She stretched and suddenly felt something heavy was on her
chest. She was shocked when she looked closer.
"Ah! Hiram Rong, you are such a bastard!" Hiram woke up with a start when Rachel hit him on his
head.
Rachel looked at him and his arm on her chest with gritted teeth. Although his hand was nice and
slender, Rachel didn't like thinking about what it had shamelessly done to her.
"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to do that. My hand must have its own thoughts. It had an instinctive reaction
last night, "
Hiram said in a hoarse voice, not fully awake.
He hadn't known why she was angry at first, but he had guessed the reason when he saw her staring
at his hand with her arms folded across her chest.
"What are you saying? Instinctive reaction? Do you often touch women ?" Rachel looked very
surprised.
She was dumbfounded by his hands, which might have touched numerous women.
But she knew nothing about men. She had no idea whether all men would do such things by instinct
when they slept beside a woman on a same bed.
"No, " Hiram replied, frowning. It was the first time that he had had to explain such a thing to a woman
after waking up in the morning.
"You've never done that? Then why did you say it was an instinctive reaction? Hiram Rong, do you take
me for a fool?" Rachel asked doubtfully, not believing what he had just said at all.
Hiram was surrounded by women. She didn't believe that he didn't sleep with other women.
"I really have never done that before, " Hiram explained, with his eyebrows furrowed.
"I think you must do such thing before. Why do you say you didn't do that?" Rachel glared at him with
her bright eyes, wondering why he told a lie confidently.
Hiram was always a bit grumpy when he got up in the morning. But now that Rachel kept insisting that
he was lying, he almost got angry. However, Rachel didn't notice that.
"I don't understand. Why are you lying to me? Please just tell me the truth..."
Rachel heard something being torn apart right before she finished her sentence.
She felt her chest was cold instantly.