Chapter 24
As Taryn finished speaking, she saw Mira walk down followed by Hugh.
Brenden was speechless
He thought, “Fine. We shouldn’t judge Mira’s behavior with normal minds.”
“Where are Brady and Sylvia?” Hugh asked after sitting down.
Taryn glanced at Mira, who was wiping her hands with a warm towel, and said sarcastically, “Sylvia has gone back to her folk’s place. Brady called back to tell us about it.”
Hugh glanced at Mira. “You are something. Sylvia has lived with us for decades, and this is the first time she has ever gone home with anger.”
“You mean she has gone home with embarra**ment, right?” Mira looked up at Hugh blankly with her bright eyes. “I’m the one who is with anger. I didn’t go back, only because you took my luggage away.”
Hugh was speechless.
Taryn wanted to flare up again. “Mira, you…”
“Enough. Let’s eat,” Brenden ordered sternly.
He figured that if their conversation continued, let alone Taryn, he would have a heart attack.
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Mira was full.
She went upstairs to take a shower. She took her clothes out of the suitcase and carried them to the bathroom.
Hugh, who followed her inside, frowned. “I don’t like my bathroom being used by others. It’ll be dirty.”
Mira said nothing.
She thought, “You might as well say directly that you think I’m dirty.”
Her cheeks were bulging as she glared at the man behind her.
“I’m a clean freak,” Hugh added.
“OK.”
Mira nodded. She thought, “What a coincidence. I’m a clean freak as well. I don’t want to use his bathroom at all.
“Anyway, given his personality, even if we divorce in the future, I don’t think any woman will be able to stand him.”
Mira, unwilling to argue with him, took her clothes and went to the communal bathroom on the second floor to take a shower.
When she was back, Hugh had already taken a shower.
He was sitting at his desk in a navy blue pajamas. His skin was fair, and the neckline of his pajamas was casually loosened, revealing his delicate collarbone and sexy Adam’s apple.
Even though Mira hated him, she had to admit that he was the most dignified man she had ever met.
Mira walked over and silently put away her laptop and textbooks,
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which had been pushed aside.
Hugh glanced sideways at her. “Where’s the couch in my room?”
“Your dad had it move out. He didn’t want me to sleep on it at night,” she said.
Hugh was stunned by how thorough Brenden was.
Then he looked at the only large bed in the bedroom, and his handsome face darkened.
“In that case, sleep on the floor. I will take the bed.”
Mira did not argue with him, as she did not want to sleep in some man’s bed. “Then give me a cushion and a blanket. I can’t lie on the floor just like that.”
Hugh said indifferently, “That’s your business.”
His indifferent tone stung her again.
She thought, “I’m new here. How am I supposed to know where the cushions and the blankets are?
“I’m beat today, and I don’t want to fight with him.
“Yet my compromise is rewarded by nothing but his indifference instead of his compromise and cooperation.”
Mira glanced at him meaningfully and turned back to the bathroom.
Hugh looked at her back. Somehow, he had a bad feeling.
