Spoiled by the CEO after amnesia!-Chapter 60: Becoming His Canary?
"Miss Jiayi..." the butler called out.
Jiayi seemed not to hear, appearing lost and distant.
Why did she have absolutely no record of her identity?
Even the Huo Group couldn’t find any information about her identity... Could she ever find her family again?
The hopes of the past few days had shattered like soap bubbles.
A sour feeling surged up, and her eyes felt swollen.
A thick panic and helplessness, and an overwhelming fear of having no support, rushed in all at once.
All of a sudden, Jiayi lifted her head and started walking down the stairs.
She wanted to ask the butler in detail, but after a few steps, she furrowed her brows, bent over, and cried out in pain, "Ah..."
Huo Zhenyang’s expression turned stern, and he stood up abruptly, striding upstairs: "Damn it."
She was too anxious and had stepped on the glass shards on the floor!
He ascended the stairs in a few steps and picked her up.
Jiayi was still in a daze, not yet recovered from the previous shock, and although the sole of her foot was in pain from the glass, her heart seemed to ache more. She let the man carry her to the sofa in the living room downstairs.
"Young master, should we call the family doctor?" the butler asked hurriedly.
Auntie Li was also alarmed and came out to see Jiayi’s foot cut and bleeding, which gave her a fright.
"Auntie Li, go and bring the first aid kit," Huo Zhenyang ordered.
Auntie Li hurriedly brought it over and saw the young master holding Jiayi’s foot to check the wound while giving the butler a significant look.
The two exchanged glances and discreetly left the room.
The pale and delicate soles of her feet had deep and shallow red marks, traces where the glass fragments had cut.
Luckily, the glass shards hadn’t penetrated deep into the flesh, but were superficial wounds.
He dipped a cotton swab in medical iodine, steadied her, and said, "This might sting a bit."
She came back to her senses, smelled the hospital scent, and pouted like a child, turning her face away, afraid to watch.
Huo Zhenyang wrapped his arm around her waist and pulled her into his embrace.
Jiayi rested her cheek against his broad shoulder, hearing the man’s deep voice by her ear: "If it hurts, bite down."
She hesitated.
He lifted her foot and began to disinfect it with the cotton swab, narrowing his eyes slightly.
"Mmm... it hurts... be gentle," she said softly, frowning slightly and leaning on his shoulder like a wounded little animal, her voice filled with grievance as she attempted to retract her foot: "No more... I don’t want it. It’s painful."
"Now you know it hurts, after being so careless just now?" He firmly grasped her slender ankle, his face stern with no intention of letting her off easily, and continued to wipe the wound but more softly.
Jiayi couldn’t bear it anymore, and as he had told her, she opened her small mouth, lowered her cheek, and bit down on his solid shoulder.
Her small, delicate teeth sank into the man’s flesh, which relieved some of her discomfort.
By the time he finished applying the medicine and wrapped her foot with gauze, she noticed two deep rows of teeth marks on the shoulder of his shirt, which appeared playful and charming, yet somehow enticing.
They seemed to be deliberately imprinted by a woman.
After bandaging her foot, the pain eased slightly, and the bad news she had heard upstairs once again struck Jiayi.
"Really? You couldn’t find my family?" Jiayi asked, sitting on the sofa and lifting her head.
Her eyes held beseeching, helplessness, and a glimmer of hope that hadn’t been extinguished.
Huo Zhenyang remained silent.
Jiayi’s eyes reddened, and her nose felt sore.
She knew this man hadn’t lied to her.
With this man’s power, if he wanted to keep her, he would never stoop to deceive her.
Plus, she had unintentionally overheard the butler’s report just now.
So what was she now? An orphan who had nobody to rely on, not even knowing who her parents were?
"No matter what you were before, I’ll take care of creating your life from here on. Just follow me obediently."
The man’s voice was indifferent, as placid as a long river with no waves, a deep sea without traces, magnetic and filled with a confusing power, his obsidian eyes capturing hers.
Jiayi was stunned for a moment.
Was he... seriously considering making their act a reality?
And could she really handle a man as regal as the one before her?
Did she... really have to follow him from now on and become his canary?
The girl’s eyelashes fluttered, and the sweet youthful fragrance of her body wafted around due to the close distance. The white pajamas she wore hung loosely on her frame, emphasizing her slender, boneless figure.
He suddenly leaned closer.
Jiayi panicked, rolled over instinctively trying to flee, but as soon as her foot touched the ground, the recently bandaged wound felt like it was ripping apart, and she screamed, "Ah—"
Damn it!
His eyes darkened as he came to his senses and felt like someone had doused him with a bucket of water; he picked up her small ankle to check that there was no damage, and then swept her into his arms and headed upstairs.
"You, let go of me..." Her foot felt a bit better, and fearing he might do as he had just done, she coiled into a small fist and pounded his chest.
"Let go of you? You think you can walk on your own? Do you want to feel pain again?" he asked coldly.
His questions were so pointed that Jiayi had no response left.
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Because of her injured foot, Huo Zhenyang didn’t allow her to go to work and called Samuel.
After resting for a week, her foot injury had almost healed.
Jiayi was used to working and couldn’t sit still at home; plus, her mood was down due to the unsuccessful search for her family.
On the eighth day, Jiayi formally returned to her job.
On her first day back, the weather wasn’t too bad.
As usual, Jiayi had breakfast and then went downstairs to get into the car.
As the car drove on, Jiayi felt something was off.
This wasn’t the way to JJ’s, where was it heading?
"George, where are you driving to? This isn’t the way to the company," a surprised Jiayi called out from the back.
