novelxo Chapter 1764
Adrienne didn't know why she asked such a weird question too. The second after she asked it, she felt like she was looking for trouble herself, so she kept quiet.
Yet, she heard Jefferson's haughty voice, "We've been friends since we were children, and now I'm your legal husband. You're asking me what's my identity? You really are an idiot, aren't you?" Adrienne went speechless.
That was not what she meant.
She just felt that Jefferson did not seem to be as simple as she thought; his true identity could be even more terrifying than what she knew of at the moment.
"If you don't want to sleep, then get up. You'll go home with me to meet my family later in the afternoon." Jefferson let go of her and got out of bed. He was only wearing a pair of underwear and Adrienne couldn't help but take a few more glances at his muscular body.
"Since you enjoy looking at it, I'll let you look at it for a little longer." Jefferson was elated as he noticed Adrienne's gaze on his body and walked around the bed for a while. "I'm hunky, aren't I?" His body figure was truly admirable.
He was tall; he had abs...
Adrienne realized that she was lost in her thoughts and quickly retracted her gaze. "Um... I have things to do this afternoon, I can't go home with you for lunch."
Jefferson was still showing off his body when he heard that Adrienne didn't want to go home with him; his expression changed drastically. He glared and her and asked, "Little idiot, tell me, what is more important than going home with your husband and meeting your in-laws?"
"What, what?" Adrienne was stunned. She looked at Jefferson unbelievably and said, "Mr. Hefner, don't you scare me. Meeting my in-laws? I'm very timid, okay?"
Jefferson raised his eyebrow. "Are you unwilling to?"
"It's not that I'm unwilling to, it's just that our relationship..." The more Adrienne tried to explain, the more confused she got. She paused for a moment, took a few deep breaths, and then continued, "You know exactly why we got married and we're bound to get a divorce one day, so why should I meet your parents? When you get married to the girl you love, you can bring her to meet your parents."
Jefferson's parents knew Adrienne since she was a child and watched her grow up. She had been to his house many times for meals as they grew up. When Adrienne's parents passed away and Jefferson was away, the Hefner family frequently invited her for meals at their house. It was fine if she was just going back with Jefferson to accompany his parents for lunch, but not as his wife and not for meeting her in- laws.
If she were to go with him to meet them as her in-laws, their identities would be different. Adrienne didn't expect to be married to Jefferson forever, so she couldn't go meet his parents as their daughter-in-law. The more she thought about it, the more she felt that their marriage was outrageous. They were practically toying with marriage! So she said, "Jefferson, we can't continue making this mistake." "Mistake? You think our marriage is a mistake?" Adrienne could raise Jefferson's blood pressure with every sentence she said. Jefferson explained, "Little idiot, can't you tell that you're the girl that I love?" "I'm the girl that you love?" Adrienne felt like she had just heard the funniest joke of the year and burst into laughter. "Jefferson, stop joking around."
The corner of Jefferson's mouth twitched in anger. He had already made it so clear but she still wouldn't believe him.
Under his furious gaze, Adrienne reach for his forehead and touched it. "You're not drunk and you don't have a fever. What's wrong with you today?" Jefferson was dumbfounded.
He knew that even if he said it, she wouldn't believe it, and it made him frustrated.
Looking at Jefferson's face darkening, Adrienne knew that he was angry again. Even though she didn't know how she made him mad, she quickly surrendered. "Sigh, I'll go home with you for lunch then. I haven't seen your parents in a long time anyway, I should pay them a visit."
Jefferson managed to say a few words through gritted teeth, "You little idiot!"
After they were done packing, Jefferson purposely glanced at the room next door as they walked out of their room.
The door of room 8816 was wide open and a housekeeping worker was cleaning inside. It seemed like Zelson had already checked out.
Jefferson turned his head back and noticed that Adrienne was making a phone call. "Zelson, Jarred did not ask me anything. Alright, drive carefully. Yes, I'll be going back to the city soon too."
Jefferson knew that it was Zelson the minute he heard their conversation, and snatched the phone away and hung up for her. "Little Specky, I'm warning you for the last time, you'd better stay away from that Zelson guy. You never know his intentions."
It was not the first time Jefferson had snatched her phone away and hung up for her; she was enraged. She stepped on Jefferson's feet hardly and said, "Jefferson, I'm warning you for the last time too. If you ever hang up for me ever again, I'lI..."
Jefferson lowered his head and looked at her. "What are you going to do? Eat me?"
Adrienne bit her lip and replied, "You can give it a try."
Jefferson caressed her hair and said, "Little idiot!"
"Don't touch me!" Adrienne slapped his hand away, turned around and left.
Jefferson quickly caught up in a few steps and entered the elevator with her. As they arrived at the lobby of the hotel, Adrienne passed the keycard of their room to the receptionist. "Hello, we'd like to check out of our room."
She was polite and courteous, without a single trace of the ferocity she had when talking to Jefferson. This made Jefferson annoyed again, and he glared at the receptionist unhappily.
How was it that all these guys were able to receive Adrienne's smile but not him?
Adrienne did not want to deal with Jefferson, and followed him to the parking lot and got into his car after the check-out procedure was done. "Send me to the Western Suburb Criminal Police Team's building, I'll go get my car."
Jefferson ignored her and stepped on the accelerator, and the car sped away.
After driving for a while, Adrienne realized that they had arrived at the highway, and found out that Jefferson did not take her to the western suburb. She questioned immediately, "Jefferson, didn't I tell you that I want to go get my car?"
Jefferson gave her a glance and rolled his eyes. "Little idiot!"
Adrienne was so mad that she unfastened her seatbelt. "I want to go get my car, do you understand what I'm saying?"
Seeing her unbuckle her seatbelt, Jefferson surrendered. "Adrienne, you'd better fasten your seatbelt and sit properly. You don't need to go get your car, I'll send someone to get it for you." Adrienne didn't answer.
They have already quarreled many times since the moment they woke up.
Adrienne knew that if she continued to bicker with him, she would end up exhausted. Hence, she ignored him, closed her eyes, and tried to sleep in her seat.
However, she couldn't fall asleep at all. There were too many things in her mind and her head was in a mess.