The Good Girl's Revenge

Derek noticed that she was uneasy. He clenched his fists. The veins in his hands were beating, and a complex look flashed in his eyes.

After a long time, he replied, "It's because I'm too busy with work. I don't have time to meet you. It's better for us to wait and then meet each other when I'm really free. Otherwise, you will be disappointed.”

This explanation was not unacceptable to Meredith. She raised her head and looked at the small black circles under Derek's eyes. He had them probably because he was too busy with work in recent days.

Maybe he was really busy...

Meredith thought to herself and she felt better. However, she asked him, "Then why didn't you talk to me? Why were you with that woman?"

"Are you jealous?" Derek looked at Meredith, who was like an abandoned puppy, and his heart suddenly softened when he heard her pitiful tone. "I have to talk with her about cooperating with her family. However, since she is so rude, I don't think we should cooperate with her.”

Hearing this, Meredith felt less gloomy. Since Derek had given up cooperating with that woman for her, it seemed that she shouldn't be obsessed with this matter.

"Well..." Meredith replied sullenly. "So you're still busy? If you're tired, you should go back to the hotel and rest."

From the moment Derek landed, he did not sleep or even have the time to get over jet lag. He must be very tired.

Derek nodded. "Then you should go back to the hospital and take care of auntie. Don't worry about me."

Meredith felt something was wrong. Usually, Derek would have asked her to stay with him. After all, she could help make coffee or something in the hotel.

It seemed that the man...was increasingly unwilling to keep her company.

Maybe it was because he was tired from work?

Meredith felt a little uncomfortable, especially when he didn't even ask about the thing she had been doing for so long. She was rather unwilling. "I'm tired. Can I go to your place to rest for a while?"

Derek looked at Meredith's expression. There was cautiousness and expectation in her eyes. His mind wandered for a moment, and then he looked away. "If you're tired, go back. I might have to go out for dinner tonight. I don't have time for you."

Derek's tone was very stiff. Hearing this, Meredith felt strange.

Did he say that because he felt that he was a useless man who needed a lot of company when he didn't work?

After thinking about it, Meredith was a little discouraged. Since Derek didn't want to see her, why did she have to be so nice to him when he was so nonchalant?

However, when she caught a glimpse of the scar on Derek's hand that had not fully healed, the anger that she had just felt dissipated a lot.

When those people came to attack her last time, he had covered her and gotten this scar. Now, although the wound had healed, the scar was still there.

Seeing that, she couldn't get angry either. Instead, her desire became stronger. "No, I need to rest now. It must be closer for me to go to the place you live than to the hospital or the villa. Let me go and have a rest. It won't be much of a problem.”

Meredith had always been straightforward. Since Derek was hiding something from her, she had to pester him until he told her what was wrong

She did not believe that a man who had actively helped her and gotten hurt because of her a few days ago would be fed up with her so quickly.

There must be some misunderstanding.