Forbidden Love: My Crush Becomes My Stepmother - Chapter 16
Chapter 16: Bruise
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Reyes tasted it. It was fresh and slightly sour.
He didn’t like the taste.
However, at the thought that he could drink it because of Toya, the taste didn’t seem so unacceptable anymore.
“Is Butler back?”
“No. Mr. Butler won’t return today.”
Actually, neither father nor son of the Wilson family liked to come home.
Butler had brought Toya back last night and left again after dinner.
He hadn’t even been home as long as Reyes had.
After dinner, Reyes went upstairs.
He thought of his unhappy conversation with Tonya in the car this morning.
Perhaps Toya refused to help him get his phone because she was angry?
After all, he had almost pointed at her nose and scolded her for her vanity.
Reyes stopped in front of Toya’s room.
He knocked on the door.
The sound was not loud. If the person inside was asleep, she would not be woken up.
But Toya was barely asleep, and the slightest movement woke her up.
She thought in a daze, could it be that the butler was looking for her for something?
She knew that Reyes had been drinking and subconsciously felt that he wouldn’t come home today.
Because she was sleepy, she moved a little slowly. Reyes waited a long time before there was movement.
The door clicked open.
There was only the bedside lamp in the room, and it was much darker than the corridor.
Toya, unable to adjust to the strong light outside, shielded her eyes with her hand.
She was wearing a pink negligee with a white snowflake pattern on it.
Her long brownish-yellow curly hair was messy and was a little wet. She must have not dried it properly after showering.
The roots of her long hair were wet and sticky. It spread along her smooth and fair shoulders and fluttered before her chest while she shielded her eyes.
“Can I help you?”
Her voice was slow, soft, and not as cold as usual.
Reyes said, “…I’m sorry about this morning.”
Hearing this voice, Toya sobered up.
She lowered her arm and looked up at him.
She frowned unhappily.
She tilted her head, and her expression seemed to say, you woke me up just for this?
He disturbed her sleep because of this?
Reyes didn’t expect the slightly dazed Tonya to be so cute. Her unhappy look was not intimidating at all. Instead, it made him want to rub her face.
He suppressed his rude thoughts. “I shouldn’t have guessed you married Butler for money.”
Toya was in a daze, but her words were still arrogant. “I don’t need money at all. You really should apologize to me.”
She did not feel like she was living under someone else’s roof at all.
If Reyes hadn’t been seeingn her through rosy lenses, this stepmother would actually be no different from those arrogant, vicious stepmothers in fairy tales.
She was aggressive and not soft-hearted.
Reyes was insulted, but he didn’t lose his temper. His apology was very sincere.
Seeing that he didn’t retort, Toya felt a little better.
“Is there anything else?”
Reyes actually wanted to ask if her engagement to Butler was because of a problem with the Madison family, but he realized that with his current identity and her attitude toward him, asking would be in vain, so he tactfully shut up.
Still groggy, Tonya couldn’t see Reyes’s hesitation. She saw him out. “Good night, if there’s nothing else.”
She turned with her hand already on the handle.
Reyes instantly noticed a small patch of shadow on her shoulder that was of a strange color.
The light in her room was very dark, making her skin look very dark, but this shadow was slightly darker than other places.
Reyes called after her, “Wait.”
He moved closer to her, and from the light from the door, he could finally make out the shadow on her shoulder.
It was a bruise.
Reyes was much taller than Toya. When he got close enough to her to look down, his shadow covered her completely. He gave off an oppressive air.
Toya smelled the faint smell of wine on him.
She could not hold her liquor well and the smell of alcohol made her feel uncomfortable.
She pushed his shoulders away.
Her strength was weak, but Reyes cooperated and straightened.
“What’s with your shoulder?”
Toya instinctively looked away, but she quickly realized that the person asking her was not his father, but her son in name.
He was a generation younger than her and did not dare to do anything to her.
So she didn’t cover it up like a child who had been exposed. “I was hurt when I was fighting with someone.”
She acted frank and righteous.
Reyes opened his mouth. He couldn’t imagine Toya fighting anyone.
Who did she fight with? Why? And… was she really fighting rather than being bullied?
He put these questions aside for now.
He didn’t smell any medicine while Tobya was at the door.
“There’s medicine at home. I’ll get it for you. Get it treated before you sleep?”
Toya frowned and was unwilling. “No need. I can’t reach this position.”
The Wilson family did not have any female maids at home and did not even have anyone to help her. Considering this, she could not be bothered to get the medicine.
Reyes paused.
It seemed like it was time to hire a few maids..
