Take Control of Yourself, Please novel (Anna and Liam)

Chapter 349 No More Explanations

By the time Anna woke up, she was lying in Liam's bed in the middle of his bedroom.

The room was pitch-dark, the smell of cigarettes permeated the room, slightly choking.

She propped up her body and looked over...

Liam was sitting beside the coffee table.

Cool moonlight shone in through the windows, bathing him in a cold, ethereal glow, wrapping around him like a cold layer of armor.

The smoke from the cigarette floated slowly up into the air, dim light shining in the dark, reflecting in his pitch-dark eyes like a raging flame.

"You’re up?"

His voice was slightly cold.

"Yeah, I've been exhausted recently."

Anna felt slightly embarrassed.

How could she fall into such deep sleep that she didn't even notice it when he moved her to the bed.

If Liam was a kidnapper, she could have been shipped halfway across town without knowing it!

But her words held a different meaning to his ears.

His expression darkened and threw her phone

towards her.

Anna picked up her phone in confusion, his voice once again drifting into her ears.

"It is tiring for you to serve two people at once."

Anna froze, she couldn't understand the meaning of his words, swiped open her phone in confusion, and saw the message.

"Hey, little girl, you don't have to rush and finish everything at once. Rest well."

It was a message from Ethan.

Little girl?

Why would he suddenly address her that way?

As far as she could remember, only that person addressed her like that.

Why would Ethan...

Anna's thoughts were jumbled up, she didn't even notice Liam standing right in front of her, not until his ice-cold voice rang above her head.

"Why, you left in the middle of doing it with him?"

"What did you say?" Anna didn't react for a long moment.

Liam scoffed, "Or should I say, you were in the middle of doing it with him and couldn't bear it anymore, so the moment I used a bit of strength you were so exhausted you fell asleep immediately?"

Anna finally understood the meaning behind his words, her anger bursting out of her, and glared at him furiously.

"Liam Ackman, are you crazy! It's not at all what you think.”

"Then what could it be? You were rejected by him, that’s why you went to the bar to drink away your sorrows?"

This damn woman!

Was she so needy and desperate? Did he not satisfy her?

To the point that she needed to seek out another man!

"Liam Ackman, you're impossible! We are not involved like that, and I won't do something like that!"

Anna was so angry she felt like she was going to explode.

"If you're not involved, why would he address you so affectionately? Little girl? Hah, does this sound like two people who are not involved? Anna Hamilton, do you take me for an idiot?”

"You are an idiot! The biggest one there is!"

"How dare you call me an idiot?!"

Liam’s expression was terrifyingly dark, like a thundering storm, the air around him turning ice-cold. Anna felt like she had fallen into an icy cave, shivering unconsciously.

She straightened her back, staring defiantly back at him.

"You were the one who said it first, why can't I say it then? You are an idiot, an immoral idiot!"

"This is my phone; how can you look through my messages! Don’t you respect a person’s privacy?”

She waved the phone in her hands furiously but he plucked it out of her hands.

With a fling of his hands, the phone flew through the air and landed in a corner of the room, smashing into smithereens with a resounding crack.

"Your privacy? Don't forget, it's clearly stated in the agreement, even if your body belongs to me, even if you held your phone open for me every day, it's no more than what you should do! With me, you have no supposed privacy at all!"

How dare this woman talk about her privacy!

He had seen even the most private parts of her body countless times, and here she was talking about her privacy?

What a joke!

Anna hated it when he used this dominating tone with her as if even a glance at her was an honor, and she could fall to her knees and thank him. Text property © Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org.

She glanced at the pieces of her phone on the floor, clenching her fists in anger, so hardly that half- moons of white appeared on her nails, her entire body trembling.

Fire blazed through her eyes as if she wanted to burn Liam to ashes.

"I signed the agreement, but I didn’t sell myself to you, nor am I your servant or slave. You have no right to belittle me like this, nor do you have the right to enforce your twisted views and empty accusations on me!”

With her words, Liam’s gaze grew even colder, the vein on his temple throbbing violently, the air around him gloomy and terrifying.

He stared straight at her and opened his mouth slowly, "Empty accusations? Which part? He didn't sleep with you? You didn’t sleep with him? Or the two of you haven’t had the chance to sleep together yet?"

"It's not like that at all! The truth is..."

"Is what?" Liam cut her off without allowing her to finish.

"Don't think I don't know how much Ethan Collins helped you behind my back. Without his help, do you think you could've placed first in the practical assessments?"

"Without his help, do you think you and Nina would've gotten that sum of money?”

Anna froze.

The additional reward that she and Nina were awarded, wasn’t offered by Liam?

But instead...

By Ethan?

"I don't believe he would do so much for a mere stranger."

Anna stared at him in shock, the incident had happened so long ago, she never expected him to still be holding a grudge over it.

What a vengeful man!

In other words, narrow-minded.

"It’s not what you think, I don't know Director Collins a t all, that was the first time Nina and I met him!”

"How can you think of me that way? Because I signed the agreement and slept with you?"

"I'm not that kind of person at all!" Anna shouted.

Liam ignored her rebuttals and explanation, "Since he addressed you as his little girl, fine. From this day onwards, you're my servant, in charge of catering to m y needs 24 hours a day."

"If I don't agree?"

Why did she have to obey his every command?

"Hah, you don't agree?" Liam stared down at her.

"I can destroy the Lincoln Group at any second. Think i t through, whether you have the right to say no to me.”

"You..."

To Anna, Liam's strength lay in his ability to read his opponent well, familiarizing himself with his opponents' strengths and witnesses, and when it was necessary kicking him in his Achilles heel.

She didn't have to explain anymore.

She didn't want to explain herself.

Because no matter what she said, he wouldn't believe her.

Suddenly she felt like a joke, right from the start she had been nothing but a pawn in his game, and yet she managed to trick herself into falling for his sly attacks time and time again.

And, she naively thought that as Jamie said, he had feelings for her, he was just confused about his own feelings.

Hah...

How could she forget, he had always been this cold and unfeeling, otherwise how could he stand at the top of the pyramid in the scheming world of business, his word was law.

Stupidly, she had been harboring illusions about him, and closed her eyes to the truth, blinding herself to his true character.

Looking at his emotionless dark eyes, stares like blades of ice, shooting straight into her soul, severing

her to pieces.

Her heart squeezed painfully in her chest, her breath becoming rough and uneven, eyes full to the brim with disappointment, tears on the edge of an outpour.

Suddenly, she smiled.

The smile blossoming like the first flowers of spring, beautiful and yet empty, eyes lifeless, tone cold and distant, "Fine! What are your orders, Master? Do you want me to sleep with you?" She stripped herself bare i n front of him.