Chapter 336

"Mr. Nightingale, here's your jacket," Willow spoke, pulling Ian back to reality. He stiffly accepted the jacket with intense emotions in his deep eyes. She could not make sense of the emotions in his eyes, and she had no desire to. Since he refused to leave, Willow had to politely ask him to leave. "Mr. Nightingale, I've returned your jacket. Please leave." To ensure that he'd comply, she added, "I need to take a shower." He couldn't possibly hang around her tiny apartment when she took a shower, could he? Hearing that, he finally noticed the bruises on her neck, apart from the red strangulation marks. He was averse to women and shied from physical contact, but he knew what had happened to cause the bruises on her neck. Frozen on the spot, he glanced at her vacantly. He was a tacit man, but he knew very well that she wanted to take a shower to wash away the filth on her body from last night—no thanks to him. "Willow…" She mistakenly thought he wanted to remind her to keep the