Love Is a Sweet Addiction

Terence was forced to stop and look back at her.

Esther couldn’t keep from tears in the end. She stared at him with watery eyes and begged, “Terence, can you stay at the main building? Please get closer to my room. I’m afraid of being alone …”

Esther had never felt afraid before. She even thought it was better to live alone than stay with Terence. She could lead a freer life.

However, ever since she had the nightmare about the portrait of a woman and went to the Fairy Mountain the second time, Esther, who had always advocated science and did not believe in ghosts, started to become afraid of being alone.

Terence looked at her in astonishment. Obviously, he did not expect her to make such a request.

Seeing that, Esther hurriedly added lest Terence misunderstood her, “I know you don’t like to be disturbed. You can choose to stay in the room opposite or next door. Anyway, please live near my room, or stay at a place where I can find you immediately.”

After pondering for a moment, Terence pulled his hand away from her arms and said, “Sorry, I don’t like living in the main building.”

As Terence turned away, Esther’s heart sank and was instantly filled with disappointment and fear …

Terence took a few steps towards the door and casually said, “If you’re really scared, you can move to the Parasol Tree Garden.”Còntens bel0ngs to Nô(v)elDr/a/ma.Org

When Esther heard his words, she immediately felt lifted up, but soon after her heart became heavy again.

If she slept in his room, she would probably be even more frightened and have more nightmares, wouldn’t she?

Because the portrait of that woman was hanging on the wall of his study, watching him sleeping every night …

“What’s wrong? You don’t like the idea?” Terence asked, raising his eyebrows, as he saw her face change.

“I … I’d better sleep here,” Esther said hesitantly.

“Whatever you like.” Terence turned around and quickly walked out of her bedroom.

After Terence left, the bedroom once again fell into a dead silence. Esther looked around and quickly pulled up the sheet to cover herself.

Esther didn’t dare turn off the lights or look in the direction of the French window due to fear. She wrapped herself tightly under the quilt, though that made her sweat.

…

Although Esther hadn’t slept for almost the whole night, she woke up early and quickly went downstairs lest she was the last to arrive at the dining room.

As expected, Esther arrived very early today. Master Gibson and Mrs. Gibson didn’t show up, and Amanda was on the phone in the living room. To Esther’s surprise, Terence arrived early today. At this moment, he was casually flipping through today’s financial newspapers, while James was talking about the company stuff with his sister.

Seeing Esther come in, Sarah sized her up. Then, she smiled maliciously and asked, “Auntie, I heard that you had a nightmare last night. Are you so scared that you rushed into my brother’s room?”

Esther took on an awkward expression and quickly glanced at Terence and James. She knew that Sarah must have done that on purpose.

Just as Esther was about to explain, Sarah said, “Auntie, it turns out that you still care about my brother. How could you actually take my brother as your husband by mistake? Have you ever thought about how Uncle Terence would feel?”

That was outrageous!

Neither Terence nor James was going to speak. Nobody knew what they were thinking about.

However, one thing could tell that Terence was enraged again. He had been in a bad mood since last night.

Esther took a deep breath and said, “Sarah, your brother and I broke up a long time ago. What happened last night was just an incident. Could you stop stirring things up?”

Sarah turned down the corners of her mouth in disapproval. Just as she was about to speak, Terence glanced at her coldly and spat, “Shut up!”

Although Sarah was outspoken and never missed any opportunities to defend her brother, she was a little afraid of Terence, especially when she saw the displeasure on his face, so she stopped speaking.

Seeing Terence managed to stop Sarah so easily, Esther couldn’t help but admire him. Terence had a low status and a poor reputation in the Gibson family, and his health was in a bad condition, but for his brother and sister, he was still formidable. Since Terence had such a strong aura. No wonder Esther didn’t even dare to breathe every time she saw him.

If it weren’t for her grudge against James, the Gibson siblings wouldn’t have dared to be so disrespectful to Esther.

As people arrived one after another, everyone had breakfast peacefully.

In the middle of the breakfast, James suddenly raised his head and said to Master Gibson, “Grandfather, I want to tell you something.”

“What is it?” Master Gibson looked up at him.

“I want to marry Anne.”

“What?” Everyone present was stunned for a moment. Obviously, they did not expect James would say that.

Even Amanda asked, “James, what’s wrong with you? You’re only twenty-five years old now. Are you sure you want to get married so early?”

Although Amanda also hoped that her son could get married and give birth to a son as soon as possible, she believed almost all the young masters of the wealthy families enjoyed the freedom of being single and were reluctant to get married. How could her precious son be so different? Why did he choose to end his single life at such a young age?

“Yes. I’ve already thought it over.” James said seriously.

“Is the Anne that you told me before?” Master Gibson looked at Esther and said, “Esther’s sister?”

“Yes, it’s her.”

Master Gibson pondered for a moment, and then suddenly turned to ask Esther, “Esther, what do you think?”

When Esther heard that James was actually going to marry Anne, she was shocked and was immediately immersed in her own thoughts. She didn’t hear Master Gibson talking to her, nor did she realize that everyone was looking at her.

Everyone present knew why Esther was like that, including Terence.

Was there a need to be so sad about the news? Though Terence was a bit unpleasant, he calmly said to Esther, “Esther, my father is talking to you.”

Hearing Terence’s words, Esther came to herself and saw everyone looking at her. Her face unconsciously turned red. She smiled awkwardly, “Sorry, I was just thinking about my work, so …”

‘Her work? Who would believe that?’ At this moment, everyone probably had the same thought.

“Never mind.” Master Gibson was kind at least on the surface, “James said that he wanted to marry your sister. What do you think?”

“Me?” Esther was puzzled and laughed dryly, “Dad, you shouldn’t ask me. You should ask Anne and my grandmother.”

“So you don’t want to say anything?”