Chapter 1064: Chapter 1064: Writing a Huge IOU!
Bertha Swift was shivering all over, and no matter how many tis Adam Piers called her na, she didn’t react.
Adam was getting anxious. He let go of Bertha, half-kneeling as he looked at her wooden expression, and held her small face in his hands, saying, “Dear Bertha, whether you’re angry or sad, hit , scold , just don’t stay silent and harm yourself.”
But even after he spoke, Bertha remained unresponsive, her gaze empty, making her small face, which had been slapped, look even more striking.
Ignoring everything else, Adam wrapped his long arms around her and carried her horizontally towards the hotel room.
David Locke and Mary Scott were waiting in the lobby, and seeing this, they rushed over together, “What happened?”
“Milne Swift ca,” Adam ntioned Milne Swift with a gritted tone and then entered the elevator.
Mary instinctively wanted to follow but was pulled back by David, confused, she looked back at him, only to see David shaking his head at her.
“But…” Mary was concerned about Bertha and wanted to say sothing, but Adam had already closed the elevator, leaving her to rely let out a helpless sigh.
Adam carried Bertha back to his room, placed her by the bedside, and turned to find the first-aid kit when Bertha, who had been still, suddenly reached out and grabbed his finger.
Feeling the softness at his fingertip, Adam quickly turned his head, “Bertha… how are you? Does it hurt? I’m going to treat your wound now, it won’t hurt soon!”
He had quite a few ointnts from Moon Lake Manor with him, including those that relieve pain and reduce swelling.
Yet Bertha pulled his hand, not letting him move.
Adam was a bit worried, “Bertha, don’t be afraid, Milne Swift won’t dare do anything to you anymore.”
Bertha looked at the worried man in front of her, opened her mouth but didn’t make a sound at first, taking so ti before asking, “Is what he said true?”
“What’s true?” At this mont, Adam’s mind was filled with concern over the wounds on Bertha’s face, unable to think about anything else, so he didn’t realize what Bertha was asking.
Bertha took a deep breath and gritted her teeth, “The thirty million…”
Adam’s body stiffened slightly, finally realizing what Bertha was concerned about. He reached out his long arm to embrace her, “Yes, I did give Milne Swift thirty million to deal with the Fletcher family’s trouble, but it wasn’t to buy you, I just didn’t want Swift to keep bothering you, don’t overthink, okay?”
Bertha’s beautiful eyes gazed at Adam, as if trying to detect any tease in his expression but found none… only sincerity.
This man’s sincerity towards her.
Bertha had seen too many of Adam’s slovenly dandy expressions, but rarely had she seen him so serious, almost pleading her not to overthink, leaving her heart feeling soft yet tight with discomfort.
He was great, but what about her?
Even if that thirty million was to solve her troubles and not like the Fletcher family buying her, what difference did it make from an outsider’s perspective?
She was still sold, sold by her own father!
Regardless of Adam’s reasons, he was the buyer, and their status had been unequal from the mont he paid.
“I won’t overthink, but…” Bertha said the first half of her sentence, but found the rest surprisingly hard to voice. Clearly, today was just their first day, yet she was already reluctant to let go.
“There’s no ‘but’. If you feel uneasy, you can write an IOU and pay back once you earn so money.” Adam seed to have sensed what Bertha was about to say, seizing the mont of her hesitation to interject.
Then he considered Bertha’s current urgent situation, “Your first film role will be David’s female lead, a starting point above most artists. Once ‘The Doctors’ is released, you’re bound to beco popular, and making money will be easy, thirty million isn’t a big deal, and I’ll even let you pay in installnts, how about that?”
Adam’s tone at the end sounded like a big bad wolf coaxing a little lamb, full of seductive intent.
Bertha looked at his magnified handso face, such a good-looking face carrying a hint of mischief. Though he spoke as if for her sake, it inevitably ca off as insincere, quite dissonant.
When Adam finished speaking, she couldn’t help but reach out and rub his face, “Do you know when you speak like this, you seem just like a delinquent luring innocent girls?”
“Is that so? I’m not really a good guy, if it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t be putting on air.” Adam didn’t mind being teased, even shrugged his shoulders helplessly, but felt relieved inside; if she can joke with him, that ans she hasn’t sentenced him to death.
Hearing this, Bertha laughed but soon her tone turned serious, “I agree to write an IOU, but until I’ve paid back your thirty million, we shouldn’t go public.”
“How can that be!” Adam instantly reacted, having coaxed Bertha into being his girlfriend with difficulty, he couldn’t control it.
“If you disagree, then forget it.” Bertha lowered her eyes in disappointnt, feeling very uneasy.
Adam was initially delighted at her words, thinking Bertha had compromised; he was about to speak when he saw her slowly utter another sentence, “Then let’s break up.”
Bertha’s last words were so low, carrying a sense of dejected frustration and disappointnt. Even though they’d only been together for less than a day, she was already reluctant to leave Adam.
But if they continued in this unequal relationship, she didn’t know about Adam, but she certainly would beco more and more oppressed and insecure.
Perhaps at first, Adam would tolerate her seeing novelty, but what about after ti had passed? She could almost see their ending.
Instead of torturing each other by then, it would be better to snip those foreseeable pains in the bud.
“I agree!” Just when Bertha finished the word ‘break up’ and her emotion sank to the lowest point, Adam suddenly spoke up.
She jerked her head up, thinking he would try to make her stay, but she hadn’t expected him to agree so quickly, agreeing to break up?
Bertha’s mood sank again, her lips quivering as she wanted to say sothing but was lost for words. It was her who proposed the break-up; Adam was just agreeing, was there any problem?
“I agree not to go public for now.” When Adam said he agreed, he closed his eyes tightly, missing the confusion and heartache in Bertha’s eyes. When he opened his eyes, he saw Bertha cast her eyes down again, her emotions unclear but speaking the harshest words in the lowest tone, wishing to bite her, yet he ultimately held back, answering through gritted teeth.
Only now did Bertha realize she misunderstood him, what he agreed to was the IOU and keeping things private?
“Are you satisfied now?” Adam, seeing Bertha finally willing to look up at him, said with a hint of irritation.
Hearing the irritation in his voice made Bertha a bit uneasy, “I’m paying you back, not asking you for money, why such a temper?”
“Do you expect to be happy about it?” Adam asked back sarcastically.
Every ti she was rebuked, Bertha would lower her head again, and one side of her face was badly swollen. Earlier, she hadn’t felt it due to her emotions, but now speaking made it ache.
“Idiot, last ti you got scamd out of three million, wasn’t that enough? This ti you’ll have to pay thirty million directly, doesn’t that break your heart?” Adam Piers saw Bertha Swift looking gloomy, softened his bad temperant, and asked with a smile.
Bertha Swift rembered her previous loss of three million and felt stuffy, “Since you admitted that three million was you tricking , how about this ti we offset it, and the IOU is written for twenty-seven million.”
“Ha, call you dumb, and now you’re getting smart?” Adam Piers found it both amusing and irritating.
Bertha Swift didn’t seem to catch the man’s sarcasm, snorted haughtily, then urged Adam Piers, “Quick, write it, and then you’ll still be my boyfriend.”
Adam Piers’ movent to grab the dical kit froze, he turned back and looked at Bertha Swift, “What did you just say?”
His movent was so abrupt, and his voice so serious that it sounded imposing, Bertha Swift was startled and didn’t understand what she had said wrong, tentatively asked, “Is there a problem with what I said?”
“Repeat what you just said.” Adam Piers ignored Bertha Swift’s question, his gaze was so intense it seed scorching.
“I said, is there a problem…”
“Not that sentence!”
“Quick, write it? Then you’ll still be my boyfriend?” Bertha Swift was intimidated by Adam Piers’ manner, her voice trembled as she asked.
Who knew after she said this, Adam Piers suddenly stepped forward and picked her up, “Bertha, are you finally willing to admit I’m your boyfriend?”
“Huh?” Bertha Swift was deterred by Adam Piers’ previously severe expression, now suddenly lifted high, and hearing the man’s words, her first reaction was ‘huh?’ before getting infected by Adam Piers’ joy, her muddled mind finally realizing becoming Adam Piers’ girlfriend was a fact.
And because of Adam Piers’ reaction, she couldn’t help but feel happy, sweetness bubbling up inside her, was he really this happy just because she admitted he was her boyfriend?
Just this realization pulled Bertha Swift’s mood from rock bottom to peak.
“Put down…” spun around by Adam Piers a few tis, Bertha Swift couldn’t help but bashfully protest.
Only then did Adam Piers rember he was supposed to apply dicine to Bertha Swift and write the IOU; he quickly put her down, turned and ran to fetch the dicine box, bringing it back and taking out the special ointnt prepared by Abigail Green, “Co, apply it yourself, I’ll find paper and a pen.”
Bertha Swift, “…”
By romantic drama standards, shouldn’t this man personally apply the dicine?
But seeing Adam Piers’ anxious back and looking at the ointnt in her hand, Bertha Swift couldn’t help but laugh, opened the ointnt, gently sniffed it, then used her finger to scoop a bit and gently applied it to her cheek.
As soon as it touched her face, a cool comfort spread, and a flash of amazent crossed Bertha Swift’s eyes, then dimd; indeed, her dical skills couldn’t compare to Abigail Green’s, losing back then was too normal.
However, thinking about how she did have a little talent in dicine, but just a little, and that her previous reputation as a genius girl was rely her father’s cultivation as a setup for her marriage into a top family, she didn’t truly love dicine all that much, and she beca relieved.
Adam Piers ca in with paper and pen to see Bertha Swift holding the ointnt in a daze, imdiately he put the paper and pen aside, took the ointnt from her hand, “Uncomfortable? Does it hurt?”
“I’m fine.” Bertha Swift shook her head, as soone who studied dicine, she could naturally feel the effects of Abigail Green’s ointnt; after applying it for a while, the burning pain on her face had much diminished, coupled with the previous dicinal pills, she could clearly feel her body, wounded from the induction, was recovering.
“That’s good.” Adam Piers said, ticulously applying another layer to the areas Bertha Swift hadn’t covered.
Bertha Swift tilted her head, watching the man’s serious expression, suddenly rembering the rumors she’d heard about him, couldn’t help but smile.
“Am I that happy you’re applying ointnt for ?” Adam Piers glimpsed her smiling from the corner of his eye and asked.
“No, I just rembered people used to say the several young masters of the Piers family, especially Master Adam, were dandy wastrels, useless, but skilled at deceiving won, now I suddenly think they were right.” Bertha Swift said with a aningful tone.
Adam Piers lightly spat, “Who slandered , see if I don’t catch and deal with them! I may be a dandy wastrel, but when was I ever good at deceiving won? It was mostly won deceiving !”
“Ha, won deceiving you?” Bertha Swift laughed, not believing Adam Piers for a second.
Yet Adam Piers earnestly nodded, “Of course, but even though I’m useless, luckily I’m sowhat clever, I saw through their tricks at a glance, so I kept my two decades of essence for dear Bertha.”
“Cough, cough, cough…” Bertha Swift always knew Adam Piers had a skin thick as city walls, but she didn’t realize he could be this shaless, she could hardly believe what he just said.
What did he an by ‘sowhat clever’? Seeing through their tricks? Saving two decades of essence for her?
Bertha Swift got goosebumps just thinking about it, but at the sa ti, she realized a problem: last ti when she and Adam Piers were intimate, was he a virgin?
How could that be possible!
Adam Piers saw Bertha Swift looking at him with a shocked expression as if struck by lightning, imdiately feeling uncomfortable, “What are you looking at like that for? Suddenly think your boyfriend is so dashing you decided to stay over tonight?”
“Cough, cough, cough, dream on!” Bertha Swift snapped back to her senses, unceremoniously responding to Adam Piers.
Adam Piers looked a bit disappointed as he stashed away the ointnt, but then thought of sothing, “Are you sure you want to go back to your own room tonight with a face like that?”
“I can ask the crew to open another room.” Bertha Swift was caught by Adam Piers’ words, paused, and then answered, thinking herself clever.
Adam Piers just chuckled, “This hotel has long been booked out by the crew, there’s no spare room, so employees downstairs are even sharing three to four in a room, where do you think there’s an extra room? Don’t think of going to another hotel, the closest hotel to this film city is over three kiloters away.”
Bertha Swift, “…”
“Alright.” Bertha Swift was speechless for a mont by Adam Piers’ words, only to see the man had already quickly and passionately written the IOU and handed it to her, “Sign it, my girlfriend.”
Bertha Swift looked at the mischievous smile on Adam Piers’ lips, furiously signed her na, and handed it back to him.
Adam Piers ceremoniously put away the IOU signed with her na into his chest pocket, Bertha Swift suddenly had a hunch she might have been tricked by him again!
“Ointnt applied, IOU settled, let’s go eat.” Adam Piers pocketed the IOU, took Bertha Swift’s hand, but thought about how the original ceremony planned for her might fall through, he sighed and sent a ssage to Ray Leighton.
Reminded by Adam Piers, Bertha Swift rembered that she hadn’t eaten since finishing filming and running into Milne Swift before entering the hotel, and was now hungry, but with her face like that…not to ntion going outside, tomorrow she might not even be able to film!
“Don’t worry, just the two of us.” Adam Piers saw Bertha Swift’s hesitation, and without allowing for refusal, took Bertha Swift’s hand.
Bertha Swift had no choice but to follow, curious as to what this man was planning?
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