CEO's Reborn Wife

Chapter 276: Chapter 284: Committing a Known Mistake

James Black’s heart skipped a beat, and he instinctively reached out to take the cigarette Jane Sampson handed him.

He thought she had thrown a tantrum and left home, but he didn’t expect that she just wanted to buy him a pack of cigarettes, especially after being choked by the smell of his smoke.

Seeing James Black take the cigarette, Jane Sampson cautiously ventured, ”Can you not push me away so forcefully like you just did? If you find me annoying, you can tell me, and I will leave on my own.”

”I don’t find you annoying,” James Black explained. ”I pushed you away because I saw you choking on the cigarette smoke. I know you don’t like the smell, so I wanted you to wait for me in the living room for a while until the smoke cleared and I had calmed down, then I’d return to the living room.”

James Black’s fingertips gently pinched the cigarette box, ”The reason I didn’t speak to you back then was that I had just smoked and my mouth was full of the smell of smoke.”

James Black clearly saw that after he explained, Jane Sampson’s eyes brightened slightly.

”Let’s go, let’s go home to eat,” James Black said, taking Jane Sampson’s hand and firmly leading her in the direction of home.

”You didn’t even serve me noodles; you just buried your head and chowed down by yourself!” Jane Sampson complained.

”I’ll serve you when we get back. Whatever you want to eat, just say it,” James Black replied.

”I’m already planning to eat straight from the pot; you’re not mad, are you?” Jane Sampson asked before giggling, ”You’re not allowed to be so petty and get mad, because you were the one who got mad at me first.”

”Jane Sampson, between you and me, who is really getting mad at whom?” James Black really found it amusing this time and laughed outright.

When James Black laughed, Jane Sampson felt relieved.

”I was wrong,” Jane Sampson seized the opportunity to admit her mistake.

”Wrong about what?” James Black asked.

”Wrong about...” Jane Sampson paused mid-sentence, kicked a stone at her foot, and watched it roll into the drainage canal before quietly raising her eyes to sneak a peek at James Black.

Unexpectedly, she was caught in the act with just one glance.

”Wrong about running back to the small town without caring for my own health, and wrong about not listening to you,” Jane Sampson hurried to explain. ”But I’m telling you, after I returned to the small town, I didn’t get sick, I didn’t catch a cold, and I’ve been taking good care of myself.”

”Taking good care of yourself? Is this what you call taking good care of yourself?” James Black’s smile faded as he pointed in the air at her right hand, ”Is working until the early hours of the morning taking good care of yourself?”

”How did you know?” Jane Sampson blurted out.

Then biting her teeth inside her mind, she cursed Peter Gingery, that big mouth.

Block him! Definitely block him!

He’s such a pig of a teammate! Once home, she promised herself a lifetime of blocking!

James Black chuckled coldly, pretending not to hear the sentence about how he could know.

It seemed she still planned to keep it all from him.

”So, you knew everything, and knowing full well, you still went against your word. At home, you agreed to behave, and once I returned to the guard team, you turned around right back to the small town, keeping me in the dark, and enjoyed that?” James Black said. ”You got hurt and kept that from me, too. Were you happy about it? If I hadn’t come back in time today, you were probably going to take care of yourself straight into the surgery room, weren’t you? Do you still want your hand?”

Jane Sampson was left speechless. Yesterday and today, it had all been one unbelievable coincidence after another. Maybe these past two days had been cursed.

”Jane Sampson, haven’t you ever thought about discussing things with me before you do them?” James Black said.

”But James Black,” Jane Sampson stopped, looked up at James Black, and said, ”If I had told you before going back to the small town that I needed to rush back for filming work, what would you have done? I guess you would have returned home overnight and taken me to the guard team to watch over me tightly, right?”

”Yes,” James Black answered.

Right, if Jane had given even the slightest hint of that at the time, he would have definitely done just that.

After responding, James Black himself fell silent, so suddenly, he understood the reason Jane Sampson had kept things from him.