Chapter 191 - What Battle Armor?

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When they arrived at the apartment, Hazel was sitting in the living room, doing her homework. As soon as she saw Edith, the little girl went over to her auntie and pulled her to sit down and help her with her homework.

Neil exchanged a few words with Nanny Ann and went upstairs to his room. Edith watched his retreating gaze and heaved a long sigh. She could not understand why he was so angry that he did not want to say a word to her.

They were just good a few minutes later, but his mood suddenly plummeted the moment she had mentioned that she used to date Aaron. Even if he was jealous, wasn't his action was a little bit too excessive?

In the end, Edith could only decide to let him calm down before she would try to calm him down. Anyway, little Hazel was with her and she did not want her to notice that something was wrong with them.

However, Hazel was a sensitive child. She had noticed the way Edith would look up to stare at her uncle's bedroom door in a daze and sighed. This action has been repeated more than twice and Hazel knew that something was amiss.

Hazel put down the pencil she was holding and poked at Edith's arms.

Edith snapped out of her thought at the sudden contact. "Hazel." Edith forced a smile. "What's wrong?"

Hazel and wrapped her tiny arms around Edith's neck and stared at her with worry. "Auntie Edith, you don't seem alright. Is something bothering you?"

Hearing the little girl voicing out her concern, Edith felt her heart melted. Edith pulled Hazel into her arms and spoke in a low voice. "Your uncle seemed angry at me. Hazel, what do you think I should do?"

"Auntie Edith, what did you do?"

Edith stiffened at her question. She also did not know what she had done to make her darling angry, ah!

"My uncle would not be angry at you without reason, right?" Hazel spoke again. Since her Auntie Edith did not know what she had done wrong, Hazel thought that she should help to think about it together.

Edith thought of their conversation in the vehicle. "Maybe… I've said something wrong."

"Then, you should go and apologize. Auntie Edith, you taught us that when you do or said something wrong, you should apologize." 

Edith looked at Hazel's bright eyes and could only agree with her words. "You are right. I should go and apologize." She forced a smile and patted at Hazel's hair. "I will let your uncle cool down first before I go and apologize."

The little girl smiled happily upon seeing that her auntie had decided to listen to her advice. Then, she picked up her pencil again and continued to concentrate on her homework.

Edith knew that she had to coax her darling. However, she was at loss at how to coax Neil. Although she had dated Aaron in the past, their relationship was not the same as other couples. Where would there be a day that she had to coax Aaron? That guy would be too afraid that he would be beaten up instead.

It was inappropriate to ask for Hazel's opinion regarding this matter. Therefore, Edith decided to turn to the person she could trust.

Fortunately, Lily was not asleep and took less than a minute to reply to her text message.

"You're in a fight?" Lily asked.

Edith thought of her question and wondered if this was the first fight between her and Neil since they decided to get together.

"How can you be in a fight? I thought you guys were still in your honeymoon phase?" Lily texted again.

"Lily, stop teasing me. Quickly help me to think of a way to coax my darling."

"Do you need to ask? If you wanted to coax President Mo, the first thing you have to do is to wear your battle armor."

"What battle armor?"

"Of course… your battle armor is your sexy lingerie. Then, you march into battle, take him down and make him forget about whatever argument you have. When the sun is up, your relationship would be restored to normal."

Edith had the urge to throw away her phone. It was not hard for her to figure out what was her friend suggesting her to do to coax her darling. She should know that asking Lily's opinion was not a great move. That woman's thought was too impure!

In the end, Edith decided to ignore Lily and try to come out with another method. It was not as if she owned a battle armor anyway! 

Edith went back to her room after Hazel had gone to bed. She took a shower and prepared herself to go to bed. She glanced at the time and saw that it was almost midnight. Edith was planning to coax her darling when he came into her room, but the person who would always sneak into her room did not appear. 

After debating with herself for a long time, Edith walked out of her room with her phone and headed over to Neil's room. Her hand hovered at the door for a long time before Edith decided to knock on the door. 

She counted to three and knocked again when there was no answer. Then, Edith leaned closer towards the small slit between the door and whispered, "Darling, are you there?"

She had checked his office seconds ago and knew that he was not in there.

Seeing that the man did not open the door or answer her call, Edith started to panic. She raised her hand again and knocked at the door a little harder. "Neil?"

A few seconds later, the door swung open and a topless Neil appeared at the door. At this time, he had a towel wrapped around his lower half and his hair was dripping wet with water. It was clear that he had just gotten out of the shower. 

Edith was momentarily in a daze as she stared at the droplets of water that streamed down to his abs.

"Why are you here?"

His question snapped her out of her trance. "I am looking for you."

A slight frown appeared on his handsome face. "Why are you looking for me?"

"We need to talk. Are you not going to let me in?" Edith peeked inside his room and turned to look at her boyfriend with an adorable expression, hoping that the man would stop being too cold to her and give in.

Neil stared at the woman before him before he stepped aside. "Come in."

A breath of relief escaped her when her darling finally let her in. Edith shut the door behind her and turned around. 

The sight of Neil's naked backs was the first thing she noticed. Edith watched as his muscle rippled as he dried his hair with another towel and could not look away from it.. Her throat suddenly felt dry and the words she wanted to say to him were long forgotten.

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