Chapter 379 Not Now But Later

In the following minutes.

Amanda really spent time with Neil in the hotel.

However, Amanda had more than second thoughts because this man could not keep his hands to himself.

Sure, the man said that he would keep his hands off, but it did not mean that he would hold back on the chops.

Amanda had a feeling as though he was going to eat her up.

“Uh, stop it...” Amanda looked at him and murmured under her breath.

“What am I to do? Oh, how I long for you,” Neil whispered in her ear.

“It amazes me how you’re able to hold it in,” Amanda replied.

Neil planted a kiss on her lips. “I don’t want to sleep with you under such circumstances. I want our first time to be in a meaningful place.”

Amanda was dumbstruck by the mention. “What do you mean?”

“What do you mean what do I mean?”

“Didn’t I... with you before...”

Raising a brow, Neil realized he had a slip of the tongue moment.

His expression left Amanda all the more perplexed. She got up and stared at him. “What are you trying to say?”

Falling back into bed, Neil chuckled. “Nothing...”

“There’s definitely something. What are you referring to by ‘our first time’?”

His practice of silence only made Amanda guess more. “Are you saying that nothing happened the last time?”

Neil ruffled her hair. “Oh, silly girl, and you only found out now?”

Amanda was this close to losing it following his reply. “It has never been so?”

“Silly, you’re a woman. You would’ve felt something in that retrospect.” Neil gazed at her with smiling eyes. The innocent and adorkable look on her face was simply too adorable.

“How would I know? It’s not an experience I’ve been through!” Amanda snapped back before grabbing his clothes by the pecs. “You liar! You lied to me!”

Neil’s mind lingered on the statement of her non-experience. He then pulled Amanda into his arms. “Really? You haven’t?”

Amanda turned blush red. “As far I know, no... Anyway, I don’t remember the past. I wouldn’t know if it happened before.”

It took a while before Neil let go of her but still kept his eyes on her. “What am I to do? I really want to sleep with you now.”

Amanda immediately placed her arms over her chest out of fright. “No!”

Neil could not help but laugh at her cute reaction.

“I’m being serious here.” Amanda pouted her lips and puffed her cheeks with widened eyes.

“Okay, I won’t sleep with you.”

“Really?”

“Uh-huh.” Neil held her and waited until Amanda let her guard down before mumbling in her ear.

“Not now but later.”

Amanda, “...”

Although she wanted to call him out on being a pervert, for some reason, Amanda felt sweetness sink in.

This must be called being in love.

She resisted against Neil before, yet Amanda was fully aware that it was not feelings of resistance but fear.

Amanda dared not have a relationship with him because he gave her a familiar yet strange feeling. Nevertheless, since they were together, the sweetness simply overwhelmed her heart.

With this in mind, her lips curled into a lovely smile. Closing her eyes, she let Neil be as the latter embraced her.

...

Meanwhile, on the other side.

Lyla stood on a balcony while Mark came up from behind and hugged her.

“How are you feeling? Are you cold?”

Lyla shook her head. “No, I’m not.”

The pair stared into a distance, having something on their mind.

“Say, what do you think Neil and Amanda are doing right now?” Lyla asked out of curiosity.

Mark drew close and kissed her on the lips. “Something like this...”

Lyla took a glance at him. Her eyes were all smiles as she fixed her gaze afar.

“Mark...”

“Yes?”

“Do you think we will be like this forever?”

“Of course.”

“Will we always be this happy?” Lyla enquired.

She rarely asked such clingy questions, but the words that came out of her mouth did not feel lame, rather it was quite a different feeling.

Mark looked into her eyes. “I can’t guarantee that we would still have the hots for each other in ten or twenty years, but I can assure you that I will always be good to you. My heart and body are yours to keep.”

Turning her head back, Lyla stared intently at him before turning around to give him a tight squeeze.

Mark smiled. “Perhaps instead of love, our relationship becomes more like a family ten or twenty years later, but I still hope to grow old with you, hand in hand.”

Lyla tightened her arms around him.

Girls were most fond of hearing promises of forever love, but this was not the case for Lyla. To a matured woman, she was aware that these were only feelings let out at the moment. Mark, on the other hand, gave his words of a lifetime’s inseparableness.

The passion may soon cease, and love may wear down through time, but the relationship between them had reached an indissoluble stage.

Feeling touched, Lyla buried her head against his neck.

Since bearing a child, she had become rather sensitive. Mark was clear that she would be moved. With downcast eyes, he fixated on her. “It’s a rare moment that we’re alone. Shouldn’t we cherish the time ahead?”

“Huh?” Lyla lifted her eyes to meet his.

Without another word, Mark swiftly lifted her.

Looking into each other’s eyes, love was evident in sight. Mark carried her to the room...

...

Two days later.