Arrogant Man VS Unyielding Woman
Chapter 253 You Torturous Succubus

"You are home?"

The moment awoke Jean and she looked at Zed with dazed eyes.

Zed paused for a moment and started to walk towards Jean. He leaned forward and fixed his eyes on Jean's drowsy yet charming face. "Did I wake you up? I was afraid that you might get cold, so I wanted to get you to the bed."

"Zelda said that you went to the market to buy groceries, so I waited for you while reading a book. But I fell asleep." Jean blushed and said with embarrassment.

"I'm sorry for keeping you waiting so late, but you didn't have to." His eyes filled with tenderness for the wife who was so caring. "Jesse wanted to go the market all of a sudden. I was concerned about her going alone, so I went with her. Are you mad?" Zed's voice got softer and softer as he suspected Jean would get angry.

"Why would I be mad? Just because you went to the market with Jesse?" Jean giggled and looked at him, "Zed, you look at her as a sister, right? If that's the case, why should I be mad?"

"I was worried you might get upset. You hated Jesse before, didn't you?" Zed replied sounding relieved. He let out the breath he was holding in for so long. 'I am safe, he thought and sighed.

"It was before. Now everything has changed. You are my husband and you love me. Nobody can steal you away from me." Getting up from the sofa, she wrapped her hands around Zed's neck. Feeling her love, he was instantly turned on. He gazed at her with scorching eyes and said in a low voice, "Had it not been the dinner time, I would want it now, you tortuous succubus." Jean didn't expect herself to be so wild. Hearing Zed's words, she blushed and sank further into Zed's chest.

"What? Are you shy?" Zed held her face in his palms and looked at her blushing cheeks. He couldn't help but lower his head and press his lips on Jean's soft ones.

Jean blushed even more. They stood in the dark room kissing each other passionately.

The kiss and moment of passion was interrupted when the phone started to ring.

Zed, unwillingly, moved away his lips from Jean's and put his hand into his jean pocket for the phone.

Jean's face was blazing. She was out of breath already started missing the moment they shared.

'What a wrong time for the phone to ring!' she thought angrily.

Jean hurriedly tidied up her messy clothes and walked into the bathroom to clean herself up.

While she took a handful of cold water to splash across her face, she heard Zed raise his voice a pitch, "What did you say?"

His tone gave Jean the idea that something was wrong.

Without wasting any more time, she quickly finished freshening up.

Once she got out of the bathroom, she saw Zed standing in the balcony with his back turned to her.

"I know. I'll call you later." Zed hung up the phone, turned around with an anxious expression and stared at Jean.

'Oh God, what happened?' she thought seeing the look on Zed's face. She mustered courage and spoke, 'What happened?"

Zed furrowed and looked at Jean without saying anything. Then, he let out a deep breath and said, "There's nothing." 'Nothing?'

Jean couldn't believe his words. The expression on Zed's face contradicted his words.

He furrowed his eyebrows so hard that they could almost trap a fly.

As Zed didn't want to say anything, Jean stopped inquiring.

She could do nothing but look at him worriedly. Her heart sank seeing the love of her life so depressed.

Now, she found out that she was coward because she was too afraid to question her own husband.

On top of that, she also felt ashamed about the fact that Zed didn't want to tell her his problems.

A feeling of uselessness overtook her, putting her into a gloomy mood. 'Only a few seconds ago we were having the best time of our lives,' she dreamed sadly. During the dinner, Zed looked distracted. He barely glanced at Jean or made an effort to talk.

The silence filled the table making them look like the unhappiest couple.

Zed lost his appetite so he left to his study after he took a couple of bites.

Jean looked at Zed's receding back. A sense of helplessness crept into her mind.

"What's wrong with Zed?" Jesse asked Jean, who sat opposite to her.

"I don't know." Jean shook her head and replied, with her face remorseful.

"Were you two arguing?" Jesse inquired and looked at Jean suspiciously.

"Were you expecting us to argue?" The questions thrown by Jesse made her mood even worse so she left her chopsticks and went upstairs.

Jesse was startled by Jean's series of reactions. She looked at Jean's receding back in shock and felt annoyed.

'I just asked her out of concern. Why is she so angry? She's so intimidating. I don't know what Zed sees in her.'

Jesse murmured unpleasantly to herself.

Taking a moment, she thought of Zed who had been acting weird throughout the dinner and her anger cooled off turning into concern.

On the other hand, Jean sprinted to her room and slammed the door shut. She jumped into her bed and laid down thinking about her messed up life.

It was the first time she had seen Zed so sad and silent. 'He was so sad that he didn't even eat!' her thoughts turned gloomy.

'What on earth happened that made Zed so anxious?'

Jean racked her brain trying to figure out the problem.

'I should go to the study to check on him rather than stay here doing nothing. Even if I can't help him, I can still sit by his side and accompany him. Hopefully, that will help!'

Thinking of this, Jean quickly got off her bed. When she was about to walk outside, her phone started to ring.

'Who would call her at this time of the night?' curiosity passed her face.

A trace of suspicion flashed on Jean's face. She took out her phone to check and was relieved to see it was Maranda.

Quickly she pressed the answer button and spoke, "Hello..."

"Jean, something awful just happened. The video at the club that night was edited and posted online by someone. Almost everyone is forwarding it and it is receiving a lot of hate comments. Jean, I'm sorry that I screwed up..." Before Jean could speak, Maranda cried out with guilt.

"What did you say?" Jean was dumbfounded and couldn't believe her own ears.

'Did Maranda make a mistake about it?

The video that night was deleted by Eva in front of my own eyes. How can it go viral now?' Jean tried to console herself saying Maranda was joking with her.

"I am so sorry, Jean. If I didn't ask you to accompany me to my blind date, this wouldn't have happened..." Maranda still cried over the phone making her words hard to understand.

Now, Jean realized that it was true. She staggered backwards and nearly dropped the phone, consumed with fear.

She thought, 'Eva lied to me!

There must be a backup video, so Eva just deleted the other one just to fool me.

How can I be so naive and pathetic!'

She laughed at her own miserable self.

'Now, everything is ruined, especially your reputation.

Zed...'

Thinking of Zed, Jean suddenly came back to her senses and walked out of the room. She followed the direction of his study, panicking inside. 00000000