Room for You
Chapter 199

Chapter 199

“So that means that you'll be sleeping alone tonight?” A roguish lookflashed across the man’s eyes.

Instantly, Anastasia was on high alert as she looked at him and asked,“What do you mean?”

“Nothing much. It's just that I want to sleep on your bed.”

“Don't push your luck. Go back to sleep at your own home. Otherwise,I'll ban you from ever eating over here again.”

“Your dad looked very happy tonight, but the time left until hiscompany is taken over is only three months away. If you want your dadto still look this happy in the future, just let me sleep here for thenight,” Elliot uttered the cruel words while looking at the faraway lights.Meanwhile, Anastasia was left in disbelief by his words and she froze fora second.

“The opposition this time is very strong. If I don't interfere, no one hasthe ability to save your father's company. Maybe your father can goaround asking for favors and using his connections, but it won't changethe fate of his company being taken over in the end.”

Feeling as though all the energy had left her body, Anastasia was stuckin a dilemma. She did not want anything to happen to her father'scompany, yet she also did not want to beg Elliot.

“Maybe my dad would be luckier, maybe his company...” However,Anastasia could not continue, as she knew that her father's “luck’ allthese years was actually just Elliot helping him out behind the scenes.“Anastasia, do you think that it would be better for your father to gobeg someone else, or do you think that it would be better if youbegged me on his behalf?" His voice growing hoarse, Elliot thencontinued, “Even if I'm not obligated to do so, I am still very willing tohelp you and your father out.”

Hearing this, Anastasia could only look at the city's nightlights, and shehad the sudden feeling that even the sky was not big enough to fit hertroubles. How did things spiral to this point?

The man she did not want to beg the most turned out to be the manwho could solve

all her problems.

In the end, it was all because she was not tough enough, yet she alsodid not want to see her father go around begging people, so Anastasiabit her lip and looked at Elliot. “Do you want to sleep in my son's or mybed?”

Smirking, the man answered definitively, “Your bed.”

The moment the words left her mouth, Anastasia felt as if she hadtrampled all over her principles. In the end, she hung her head low anddespised how she was acting at the moment.

Guessing her thoughts, Elliot suddenly hugged her. “Anastasia, I won'tpermit you to look down on yourself. Even if you didn’t beg me, I wouldstill have helped your father. I promise that in this life, I will make surethat you and your father will live in peace and never have to worryabout money ever again.”

Admittingly, the man had a power to easily pick on her softest spot ather most vulnerable moments

“Thank you.” Reaching out, Anastasia tried to push him away, but Elliotwould not let her do so.

At that point, he dropped a loving kiss to her hair. “Don’t worry. I'mhere to protect

you.”

This sentence made Anastasia think that he was omnipotent, and thathe could block anything from harming her and her family.

For some unknown reason, she stayed in his embrace withoutstruggling, and she did not know if it was because the feeling of beingprotected by him was very nice or that she did not have the strength tostruggle anymore.

They stayed this way until her phone rang again. Taking it out, she sawit was from Nigel, so she broke free from Elliot's embrace whilecomposing herself. Just as Anastasia was about to answer the call, theman snatched it away from her and turned on the loudspeaker.

“Hello, Anastasia. Are you afraid of sleeping alone? Do you want to chatfor a while?”

The lovesick voice of Nigel echoed around the silent balcony.

This made Anastasia’s face blush. This evil man! Why did he turn on theloudspeaker? Yet, since the phone was in Elliot's hands, she couldn'tsnatch it back even if she wanted

to.

“Uh... There's no need for that. Nigel, just go to sleep. Goodnight!”Anastasia just wanted to end the conversation as soon as possible.

“I can't sleep. I'm thinking of you, you know?" At this point, Nigel wasstill unaware that his flirtatious words were being overheard by a thirdparty.

“Nigel... Nigel, stop talking right now and just go to sleep! I'm going tohang up now.”

However, Nigel began to act spoiled. “Sing a song for me, then. It caneven be a children’s song used to humor Jared. If you do it, then I'lsleep. If you don't, then I won't.”

Elliot's expression became thunderous when he heard those words,while Anastasia’s face became as red as a tomato.

Why did she have to encounter such a thing?