Reborn: The Tyrant's Obsession-Chapter 44: Adrian King is drying my hair?

Ella felt her limbs almost liquifying in his altering touch.

As her legs turned jelly, she simply leaned into his arms.

Their lips parted and she panted softly against his lips.

The man pressed fleeting kisses against her lips.

And when it made her heart skip a few beats, Ella blinked.

...

Later on...

The man who had been forced to sit on a chair with his drenched suit had a rare satiated look on his face.

He looked like a cat that had gotten his paws over the entire fish market.

Ella cleared her throat, ’’Would you be leaving now?"

Her casual tone made it sound like the activities in the bathroom had not taken place at all.

Adrian’s gaze darkened, ’’No.’’

No? Ella’s face fell. Dear lord, what do you mean no? Do you even know the scandal I would be involved in if they caught me with a man in my dorm room?

Forget the scandal! Won’t I be kicked out right away?!

The further her silence stretched, the more the man’s face darkened.

Ella cleared her throat again. This wouldn’t do. She should try harder to chase him away, it seems. ’’Your suit is all drenched. How can you keep wearing this...?"

"It’s alright.’’

"_"

Forget it.

Ella felt like if she tried to shoo him away any further, she would break his fuse.

After giving it a thought, she walked away.

Adrian sat on the chair, soaking wet, like the favorite creation of the god while he watched the girl fluttering about in the room.

After a while, she came back with a bathrobe in her hand.

"You can just put this on! I will put your suit somewhere to dry,’’ she extended the bathrobe towards him, ’’Oh, this is unused and totally new. The fabric is kind of cheap...’’

The bathrobe was grabbed from her hand before she could finish her words.

Watching him strut back into the bathroom like a male god, with his super-fancy suit clinging and outline his muscular body, Ella sighed.

She had ordered it early this morning from a cheap online supermarket only. Who would know it would come in handy like this?

When Adrian walked out, the robe seemed shorter than average robes.

It made sense. He was almost 6’5’’ while she was 5’5’’. The robe barely touched his knee.

But it fit him properly due to muscular and broad stature.

The man seemed to be completely unproblematic about the robe though.

After Ella changed into comfortable pyjamas, she hung his suit on a hanger near the window where the air conditioner could directly hit it.

She double checked to ensure that the curtains were closed.

After that, she rummaged through her suitcase and pulled out a hairdryer.

Ella dried her hair in front of the small wall mirror provided in the room.

A bit impatient and exhausted, she turned the heat up in order to dry her hair faster and get done with it.

But when she shifted to the side, her gaze accidentally landed on Adrian who was sitting quietly on the bed, his eyes fixated on her while water dripped from his hair.

Ella glanced at the hairdryer and then she looked at the man. Then, she looked at the hairdryer again.

Suddenly, she felt a little guilty.

No matter what, this delicate princess was all drenched because of her clumsiness.

She hooked her toes around the chair and pulled it towards her, ’’I don’t think the hair dryer would reach there. Why don’t you come over here?"

The man sat there, unmoved.

Ella sighed, ’’You will fall sick like that. I will dry your hair for you so just...’’ come over here.

Her words had yet to finish but the man had already pushed himself to his feet.

His long legs covered the distance from the bed to the chair she had placed in front of her in barely three steps. And then he sat in front of her.

"_"

Why did it seem like this guy had selective hearing? He responded to what he wanted to respond to or he treated her words like the breeze outside, letting it pass by him.

Regardless, she kept her complaints to herself. Looking at his dense and dark messy hair, she adjusted the hairdryer’s heat to the minimum and started drying his hair.

One person sat on the chair while the other carefully dried his hair.

From a distance, the scene looked absolutely harmonious.

By now, she knew something was amiss.

First, Esther met her outside and urged her to rush back to the Eve Mansion and now Adrian was here.

Putting two and two together, anybody would be able to say that this was not a natural occurrence.

Since Esther wanted her to encounter Adrian, that meant she was waiting for whatever seeds she had planted to explode on her face.

However, Ella could not figure out what had she done in the entire day that could potentially offend Adrian.

Hence, this seemingly harmonious silence made her feel uneasy.

She lowered the speed of the hairdryer, ’’Baby, it was my first day of college. Won’t you ask how it was?"

Adrian grabbed the hairdryer from her hand and pushed himself to his feet, standing to his full height.

As he towered over her, the man randomly turned on the hairdryer and started drying her hair.

Ella’s jaws crashed on the floor.

Adrian... King was drying her hair? Holy cow!

Those golden fingers... how could she use them for her purposes?

If anyone from the King family witnessed this, won’t they prepare an exquisite guillotine for her?

She hurriedly pushed his hand away, her movements gentle.

The man’s gaze flashed with displeasure.

’’It’s semi-dry already. Any more heat and I might go bald,’’ Ella laughed awkwardly as she took the hairdryer from him and kept it aside.

’’How was it?"

’’Hmm?" When she turned around, the man was already sitting on the bed.

"Your day.’’

Ella moved to his side, ’’Baby, these college kids are pretty mean, if you ask me. They were so eager to laugh at me...’’ she shook her head, letting out a soft sigh.

’’It’s a good thing that I have a heart of gold and I don’t mind such trifles...’’

She trailed off when Adrian laid down on the bed.

Ehh...?