After knowing Who She Is They Kneeled novel Chapter 156

Chapter 156

288 Vouchers

Annelise looked at the mark on his neck and smiled, raising an eyebrow. “I asked you before I bit you. It was to cover the cost of your remedy. What’s there to be responsible for?”

“I can pay for it.”

Adrian’s voice was a bit hoarse, probably from a cold. When he chuckled, his breath felt heavy against her ear. “If I’m responsible for it, it’ll be more convenient for you to bite me next time.”

Annelise was somewhat tempted. Her hair was jet–black, her eyes sharp and cool. “I’ll think about it.”

“Think it over carefully. It’s not just you who needs a boyfriend.”

Adrian seemed to be chuckling. “My family is pressuring me too.”

Annelise raised an eyebrow. “Then why did you call off the engagement?”

She hadn’t forgotten what she’d heard at the hospital.

Adrian’s voice was light, his tone drawn out. “I have the right to choose my own bride. With my body like this, do you want someone to marry me just to be a widow in all but name?”

“That’s true.”

Annelise gave a serious nod, her stunningly beautiful face filled with earnestness.

Adrian let out a low, somewhat helpless laugh. “I wasn’t asking you to answer.”

What ‘that’s true‘? He was just coaxing her.

But there was one thing Adrian said that was true from the very beginning.

Who he wanted to be his bride was his right.

As for the Caldwells, he would handle things properly.

If the Patriarch hadn’t gotten drunk back then and believed the ramblings of an old man who said the person who could cleanse his immense Karmic Debt was in the Caldwell family.

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Chapter 156

288 Vouchers

This engagement would never have happened.

He was only a year old, and they arranged it for him without even knowing if the Caldwell family had a daughter.

This matter was indeed the Winthrop family’s fault, and he would compensate the Caldwell family well.

As for everything else… Adrian’s dark eyes focused on the face so close to him in his arms, a refined smile on his lips. Things that never mattered before now seemed to matter because of a certain someone.

Annelise didn’t know what he was thinking, her fingers playing with the pendant at his waist. “Few people wear a suit with a heirloom jade charm. Almost no one.”

Mostly because they don’t have his physique, his aura, and… his face.

Annelise had to admit, no matter how many times she looked, she was captivated by his handsome and cool face.

A mix of Western and Eastern elements–only he would dare to combine them like this. On anyone else, it would definitely be a mismatched mess.

Seeing that her fingers never left the warm jade, Adrian untied it and placed it in her palm. “For you.”

“Me?”

Annelise’s eyes lifted at the corners. “What clothes would I even pair this with?”

My cheap t–shirts would just bury this heirloom jade charm.

Adrian didn’t let her return it. “Pair it with whatever you want. It’s just a pendant.”

But that wasn’t true. This heirloom jade charm was something he’d worn since his one- month–old celebration and rarely took off. It was a cultural antique brought home along with the rosary beads on his wrist.

The rosary beads were crimson, the heirloom jade charm a deep lavender.

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