SWNOVELS Chapter 13 That Man is Me
The large living room was suddenly filled with an unspeakable pressure and urgency, the whole area went completely silent at once. The source of all of that cold aura came from the man who was as sharp as a sword. He stood tall in the center of the living room.
"Tanner, why... why are you here?" Eliza asked in a daze.
Tanner stared at her with his deep gaze, a hidden sense of emotions swimming in the depths of his eyes.
He raised his slender and clean fingers, then reached out to Eliza. His voice was low yet filled with firmness. "Eliza, come here. Stand behind me." Eliza was already dumbfounded, perhaps the chaotic scene just now had exhausted her energy. At that moment, her mind was completely blank. When she heard Tanner telling her to go over, she walked towards him obediently.
His scorching, thick palm was on her cool wrist, he pulled her into his arms. His long arms circled her waist as if he was declaring sovereignty over her.
The side of Eliza's face was pressed against Tanner's chest. Her little face blushed as his chest warmed her up.
She was completely lost in her own thoughts. Didn't he tell her to go behind him? Why did she walk into his embrace...
"Why should she kneel and apologize?" After he held the woman in his arms firmly, he glanced sideways. His eyes seemed to be calm as they swept over the other three people who were present.
Michael subconsciously felt a sense of fear, and his heart started to beat hard. He hesitated for a little while before he remembered to say, "Mr. Deleon, that is my wife. Don't you think it is inappropriate for you to hold her like that?"
Tanner's expression remained the same, there was not even the slightest change in his domineering voice.
"She is my sister. Is it wrong for me to protect her like this?" His cold eyes turned even chillier as he looked straight into Michael's eyes. "You, on the other hand, what rights do you have to make her kneel?" The words "what rights" and "dare" made it clear that Michael's status was lower than Eliza's.
Michael's face turned pale at once with hatred in his eyes, but he dared not resist or explain. As for the night he drugged Eliza, Tanner knew about it, but he did not say anything about that.
The Deleon family had great power and influence, even if the Francis family wanted to fight against him, they would have to harm themselves just to inflict a tiny bit of damage to him.
Therefore, even if Michael could not control himself, he still had to.
The atmosphere stiffened for a little over half a second before Marco started to talk.
"Tanner, you haven't got to the bottom of this situation. Michael is not asking for much. This is all because of Eliza, the unfilial girl. She had just gotten married to him, and she is already throwing herself at othe men. Look at these photos, it's proof!"
Marco showed a look of ingratiation, his attitude was immediately soft and humble. He even personally picked up the photos on the ground and showed them to Tanner.
Tanner shot it a glance and admitted at once.
"That man is me," Tanner said.
This sentence was like sudden lightning, shocking everyone and everything in an instant.
Everyone around them was stunned.
Michael did not expect Tanner to admit it so frankly without a care in the world. Meanwhile, Marco and Penelope were thoroughly dumbfounded. They thought that their ears had deceived them. The man that Eliza was out with... was Raelyn's boyfriend?
Eliza's brain was already in a big enough mess. After hearing that, she snapped back to her senses at once. She was even more frightened. She pointed her trembling little finger at that cruel man and said, "Tanner, how could you... how could you..."
Tanner stretched out his hand to grab hers shaking hand. His palm was burning hot, and it caused her heart to tremble a little bit more.☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐