“I’m sorry. I won’t kiss you this way again.” I lowered my head guiltily. “Don’t be angry. I couldn’t help it. You are adorable, after all.”
Rufus didn’t say anything. I slowly raised my head and peeked at him. He covered his ears with his hands with a grim look on his face.
I tugged at his sleeve to coax him. “I was wrong. You’re the best, Rufus. You won’t blame me, will you? I don’t know what I was thinking. I couldn’t control myself. But I promise never to do it again. If I have the urge to kiss you again, I will restrain myself no matter what.”
I summoned the courage and gently stroked his ears.
Rufus’ jaw tightened, and the wolf ears on his head grew more prominent.
That was when it dawned on me that Rufus had sensitive ears. No wonder he lost control when I kissed his ear just now. I clamped my mouth and laughed.
“God, look at Rufus’ ears! I love them! I want to stroke him,” Yana screamed in my mind. “Sylvia, touch his ears! Hurry up! Please. Otherwise, his ears will shrink back.”
His big ears were as soft as feathers. I wanted to stroke them again.
Without thinking further, I stretched my hand and touched Rufus’ head, hoping he wouldn’t be mad at me. He had allowed me to touch his ears before, so I didn’t think he would mind now.
Just as my fingertips were about to touch Rufus’ ear, I heard the voice of a man and froze in horror.
I turned around and saw Richard walking toward us. “Rufus? Is that you?”
“Shit! What do we do now? Why is he here?” I subconsciously bent down in shock.
“What… what are you doing?”
Rufus looked flustered for the first time. I had not seen him lose his cool before.
I didn’t have time to think, so I shrank lower.
“Get up quickly. It doesn’t matter if he sees us. We don’t have to hide our relationship,” Rufus whispered, wriggling his legs.
I lifted my head hurriedly to look at him. “Yeah, you’re right.”
Just as I propped my hands on Rufus’ thighs to help me get up, Richard called him again. As the voice grew louder, I freaked out again and bent down clumsily. The tip of my nose hit Rufus’ belt.
Rufus jerked up in shock. “Did you get hurt?”
I clamped my nose and shook my head in pain. I felt so angry and frustrated. My mind was racing a mile a minute. I didn’t know what I was afraid of.
It wouldn’t have been a big deal to sit beside Rufus on the passenger seat. However, the way I was hiding now looked weird and scandalous.
My cheeks flamed with embarrassment. I didn’t dare to look up at Rufus. Before I could react, Richard walked to the car and knocked on the window. “Rufus, what are you doing? What happened?”
I grew anxious, so I buried my face against Rufus’ thighs. I just had no idea how to face Richard under such circumstances.
Richard’s POV
Just as I walked past the main gate of the imperial palace with an army squad, I saw Rufus’ car suddenly lose control. It dashed toward the gate and skidded to a halt at the last minute.
It looked strange. Rufus was an excellent driver. I wondered how he lost control.
I walked to the car in confusion. “Rufus?”
The windows of this car had one-way glass. I couldn’t see what was happening inside. I waited for a while, but there was no response from him. He didn’t even bother rolling down the window. I suppressed my anger and knocked on the window.
Then, the window finally rolled down, leaving only a small gap. Rufus gripped the steering wheel with both hands and glared at me. “What’s the matter?”
I forced a benign smile. “What happened? Your car almost lost control now.”
As I spoke, I managed to peek inside through the gap but didn’t see anyone inside.
Rufus didn’t answer me.
“Do you need my help?” I knocked on the window again. I wanted Rufus to roll the window further down so that I could see what was going on inside the car.
Strangely, the people I had appointed to keep an eye on Rufus reported that Sylvia had got in Rufus’ car, and they had gone out together. I wondered why he came back alone.
Rufus sneered. “Anything else? If not, you can leave now.”
Anger surged through my veins, but I managed to control my anger. “Father wanted to see you this afternoon, but you weren’t in the palace.”
Rufus nodded indifferently as if he didn’t care about it.
I almost lost my cool. Rufus was cold as ever. I took the initiative to talk to him, but he didn’t even bother responding to me properly. There was only a small opening in the window, and he didn’t even bother fully rolling it down, which infuriated me. It looked like he simply didn’t want to talk to me.
“Don’t forget to see Father later. He is not in good health. Don’t make him angry in any way. If you need any help, call me.” I forced a smile at him, pretending to be a good brother.
Rufus seemed to have heard something funny and suddenly burst out laughing. “Oh, thank you very much.”
I was rendered speechless. Pleased with his response, I smile. “You’re welcome. We are family. By the way, why did you go out today? You seldom take the car without a driver.”
“What? Do you know every time I go out? You even know whether I’ve taken a driver or not?” Rufus glanced at me and smiled faintly as if he were looking at a clown.
I managed to continue smiling at him even though I was a little flustered. After all, Rufus was a sensitive guy.
“No, I just mentioned it casually. Don’t bother about it. Where is Sylvia? Why aren’t you with her?”
I casually inquired him about Sylvia, but Rufus’ face stiffened as if he was enduring some pain. Then, he stepped on the gas without looking at me as plumes of gas hit my face.
“Fuck you! What the hell was that? Pure waste of time!” I was so angry that my mouth almost twitched.
I took a deep breath and walked back once I calmed down. My subordinates followed me.
“Prince Richard, the men you had appointed to follow Prince Rufus today lost track of him right at the very beginning. All they knew was Prince Rufus left the urban area but didn’t know where he was headed to. Later, we set up a roadblock on the only way back to the urban area. But Prince Rufus managed to get rid of them again.”
“You idiots!” I glared at him. “You couldn’t even handle such a trivial thing. Besides, I asked you to secretly kill that old she-wolf. But you failed to do that as well.”
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