Chapter 37: He would make a betrayer into flower fertilizer

Ben stood in his suit, reporting on official business, while Reginald played his game, occasionally interjecting, "The price is not acceptable, keep dropping."

"Keep dropping? It's already low." Ben was confused.

"How does it bounce back if you don't drop it?"

Reginald said lightly, his dark eyes always focused on the game on the TV screen.

"I'm just afraid it would cause quite a flutter in the stockholders. They don't know whether to dump or increase their position." Ben said, the PHOENIXFELL Empire's No. 1 consortium had such a wantonly playful president, and the stockholders were worried sick.

"I don't care what they are thinking about and what they will do, and I am just concerned about whether we can make a lot of money."

Reginald said carelessly.

"Yes." Ben didn't dare to speak presumptuously and continued to report, "Another thing, Secretary James betrayed the consortium secretly to serve the President of CA consortium..."

Hearing this, Reginald hooked up his thin lips and let out a sneer, "I've always given him power and high bonuses, while he turned to someone else, do you still need me to teach you how to deal with this kind of trash?"

After he caught a glimpse of something from the corner of his eyes, Reginald turned his head and raised his eyes to see Heloise standing on the stairs, wearing a pure white lace dress, slender bare shoulders. Her stagnant eyes still couldn't block out the sense of her innocence.

Reginald stared straight at her, and hooked his finger at her after a long time, the antlers tattoos between the thumb and the index finger of his right hand were making threatening gestures, "Come here."

His tone was casual, like calling out a puppy.

Surely, Heloise didn't react as Jane pulled her down the stairs and pushed her over to Reginald with a grin.

Reginald lifted his hand and grabbed her on the slim wrist, pulling her to sit on his lap as he did so, his long arms circling her, regaining his grip on the handle, his jaw resting against the side of her forehead, his dark eyes staring at the screen as he continued the game.

"..."

Heloise was about to fly into a rage.

What was the point of his putting her on his lap? She was NOT his pet.

But she could do nothing now.

So long as he left Hyacinth Garden, she would immediately escape from here, and she had to hold back, and hold back again now.

Heloise forced herself to endure, but Reginald didn't let her go yet; he shoved the handle into her hand, then grabbed one of her hands to control it, letting out a low chuckle, "Why did you have such small hands?"

They were similar to a kid's hands in his palm.

His low magnetic voice was almost against her ear, like a thin strand of electricity drilling straight into her brain, causing her to be delirious for a moment.

Seeing that Reginald was clearly more interested in teaching her how to play the game, Ben was sensible and put away the papers in his hands and stepped aside.

Heloise was held on Reginald's lap uncomfortably, and one of her hands was played with by him. He was pressing her index finger, a little while he was pushing her thumb ...

His palms were so scorching against her that she practically burned.

"Bang!"

Reginald suddenly circled her tightly and shouted low and hoarsely against her ear, ambiguously and ardently.

Heloise's heart beat so hard she almost jumped up from his lap, only to look up again and realized he had just won the game, and that he was learning to shout from the terminal bombardment sound effect when the game was won.

Childish.

He was so childish.

Heloise thought to herself.

Reginald wrapped his arms around her and started a new game when Harriet walked in from outside, carefully holding a few branches of hyacinth buds.

Reginald glanced at them, his voice clear and cold, "What are you doing cutting down these flowers?"

Harriet didn't expect Reginald to even care about this kind of trivia. She suddenly panicked, lowered her head and answered coyly, "Young master, these flowers have climbed to the outside of the fence, it's not beautiful enough, so I cut them down, and I am thinking that I will make a decoration for the young lady's room for her to enjoy it."

Reginald had already said before that it was fine however this hyacinth grew in Hyacinth Garden, but it couldn't grow outside.

Hearing this, Heloise sat on Reginald's lap and distinctly felt the aura of the man suddenly sink down into the gloom.

"Snap--"

Reginald threw the handle aside and said coldly, "Why is there always something or someone that lives off me while secretly flattering others? People are like this, and so are flowers."

Just for a few branches of hyacinth buds, was it necessary for him to consider it as serious as being betrayed?

"..."

Harriet stood with her head down, afraid to speak.

"None of that climbed over outside the wall deserves to stay wholly intact, does it?" Reginald's tone was cool to the extreme, "Mash it into juice and throw it into the trash bin, right now."

"Yes, Young Master."

How dared Harriet disobey his orders? She panicked and cupped the few flowers in her hands and put them on the coffee table in front of Reginald, then she took a small stone scoop, squatted down to the ground, and threw the hyacinth buds in and mashed them down hard.

Thump, thump, thump...

With each stroke, Heloise felt like it was smashing into her heart.

Reginald had such a strong and horrible desire to control everything. Only a few branches of hyacinth buds grew outside the wall and they were accused of being traitors, and fell into the misfortune of being cut down and smashed.

Then if she escaped...

A large, hot palm suddenly clasped to the top of her head.

Reginald looked down at her, fingertips caressing her chin, his eyes swept over a touch of gloomy paranoia, the thin lips hooked, seemingly smiling, "Little blighter, you can't learn from such a shameful betrayer. I have provided you with food and clothes now, but if you dare to run away from me, I will ... "

He said halfway, suddenly closed his voice.

"..."

Heloise heard her scalp go numb. What would he do?

Reginald pinched her chin, staring at her from close range, the tail of his eyes hooked up, his thin lips almost pressed on the tip of her nose, his breath brushed her face, word by word extremely evil, "I'll just bury you under the hyacinth bush vine to make you into flower fertilizer."

"..."

Heloise's eyelids fluttered.

"Don't presume that you could hide at the ends of the earth. In the PHOENIXFELL Empire, there is only the one who I, Reginald, don't want to hunt, and there's no one who I can't get yet."

Reginald said as he stared at her, his pupils full of overbearing menace.

Heloise sat stiffly on his lap, leaning back unconsciously, and would have collapsed if he hadn't had one hand on her back.

She really suspected that Reginald had seen right through her.

He even knew the plan that she was going to run away.

But why didn't he just break it down?

Heloise swallowed involuntarily as she looked into the almost demonic pair of dark gray eyes of the man in front of her.

Reginald looked deeply at her and suddenly snorted lowly, his finger gently pointing at the tip of her nose, "Are you scared? Is it possible that my little blighter understands what I'm saying? It seems your madness isn't so bad."

"..."

Heloise's head went blank, she had absolutely no idea what to do with the man in front of her.

It could be much harder for her to deal with this man than with the Brook's.

With those words, Reginald resumed circling her as if nothing had happened just now, continuing to play the game, looking as if he saw through it, and as if he didn't see through anything, either.

Heloise still sat numbly on his lap. How could she enjoy the game on the TV screen at this moment? Only the scene impressed her eyes when the petals of the hyacinth were mashed by Harriet.

Thump, thump…...

The sound was not loud, but whacking her in the heart.

Heloise felt like she was the hyacinth in the stone scoop, being mashed a little bit into mud and juice.

After Reginald left that day, Heloise decided not to run away in the near future.

No matter whether Reginald saw through her or not, she had to prepare for the worst. If Reginald did, but he didn't reveal it, it meant he wouldn't have done anything to her yet.

If she ran away, the situation would actually not be good.

She couldn't afford to set herself up with such a powerful enemy as Reginald. She had to save her energy to deal with the Brook's.