Chapter5 Just Keeping Me?

"Knocked stupid from the fall?"

Linnea tried to change positions but couldn't avoid that thing. It was even swelling.

As she moved, Caius let out a pleased low growl. "Mm... you want to break this thing that drove you wild? So sorry. Its style is too fierce. A girl as light as a feather like you finding it hard to handle is completely normal."

Linnea couldn't refute it. She was indeed terrified. To this day, she didn't dare imagine how that thing had entered her body.

"If I'm in the mood, maybe I'll take you to the gym."

She had crashed onto him with a heavy thud, yet he was completely fine.

Linnea replied somewhat indignantly, "My weight is barely healthy. I'm not as weak as you say."

When a girl had trouble even securing bread and water and was busy with studies and career, she wouldn't think about going to the gym. Linnea had indeed neglected exercise in the past. But she dared say it was more because of his formidable physique.

Inside and out, this man's body was like forged steel. Linnea couldn't help wondering if he would ever get injured. What about bullets? Were bullets also hard to penetrate him?

Also, was he just concerned about her? She wouldn't extend a gym invitation to a hookup buddy.

Caius looked leisurely at the girl sitting on him. She didn't seem to realize how suggestive this position was, her mind still turning over her messy schemes.

He squeezed her full buttocks. "Girl, if this continues, I'll think you're hinting that I should do something."

Linnea stiffened again but didn't obey him. She suddenly began playing pitiful again, lying back down and pressing her cheek against his chest. "Please, Caius, don't fire me."

"Don't you want to be my lover?" Caius said with a smile. "I'll pay you a high salary. I guarantee it'll be much higher than your intern secretary salary."

"Caius!" Linnea had exhausted all her tricks. "What exactly do you want! I said I won't accept being fired..."

"I'm hiring you as my assistant."

"What?"

Caius carried her back to bed and took another contract from the nightstand. "Please take a look."

This was a contract with better terms than the intern secretary position, whether in compensation, vacation time, or promotion opportunities. Most importantly, he was hiring her as an official assistant.

An official assistant was naturally better than an intern secretary and would have access to more core company projects.

Seeing her expression of surprise mixed with doubt, Caius was satisfied. "After all, as one of the few people who know I have mania, I need to pay you the necessary hush money. It's what I should do."

Linnea was almost moved. He was actually giving her hush money instead of shooting her.

Perhaps Caius wasn't as hard as he appeared on the surface?

No, no, no. She shook her head hard, trying to clear out all those lucky optimistic fantasies. She couldn't forget his expression when he dragged her out. If it hadn't been for the accidental fall, she might have already been thrown into the bodyguards' arms.

She didn't know which was the real him and which was just a momentary disguise.

"You just said I was your underground lover." She suddenly brought it up. "Were you serious?"

"You want me to keep you?" Caius asked directly. "Sure, but I can't give you what you want."

What she wanted?

Linnea laughed self-mockingly in her heart. Did he think she wanted love?

"No, I don't expect love. I won't be like some melodramatic heroine pestering you endlessly. I just need your... company. That's enough."

"That's all?" Caius asked her with a smile. "Linnea, you don't think you can win at the negotiating table with just your infatuated heart, do you?"

Of course not. Caius had received countless confessions of love. To him, just love was nothing special.

And she needed to prove she was a special pursuer.

Linnea carefully chose her words and continued, "What I can give you is cooperation with doctors to treat your mania."

Unexpectedly, Caius smiled indifferently.

"Mania? I don't think I need treatment."

Linnea's heart tightened. "But five years ago, you nearly died on the yacht because of mania. It was... that girl who saved you."

She emphasized that mania had once posed a serious threat to Caius's life.

Her special constitution was what she considered her most precious bargaining chip. After all, most people cherished life. Only she could save Caius's life. Why wouldn't he keep her by his side?

But Caius said, "So what? Death isn't scary. I don't cherish life the way you do."

Linnea stared at him in shock.

To him, even death wasn't scary?

Then what else could she do to capture his heart?

Linnea had exhausted all her chips. She almost thought she would lose this negotiation miserably.

But Caius generously stated, "However, the trade you proposed is quite interesting."

"100 days. As long as you satisfy me, I'll keep you for life."

In an instant, intense wild joy broke through her brain. Linnea was almost dizzy from this sudden surprise.

But it still wasn't enough.

After a moment of silence, she asked, "Just keeping me?"

She was greedy. What she wanted wasn't just being kept.

He narrowed his eyes slightly. "What do you want?"

"I want to be your wife." Linnea said firmly. "I deserve the position of your wife. No one is more suitable than me."

"You're very ambitious." He laughed heartily. "Then I look forward to seeing how far your arrogance will go."

In fact, he had ten thousand ways to deal with her, but he did nothing.

A life as calm as stagnant water was somewhat boring.

This little cat who might be shot dead by him at any moment, while still alive, if she could bring some spice to his daily life, that would count as her value.

Anyway, he would never lose. As for her... Ha. That was hard to say.

The housekeeper knocked and came in, silently placing breakfast on the bed table.

Linnea began calculating in her mind how to seduce him. A CEO as excellent as Caius naturally had many bed partners. If she couldn't show her uniqueness, his interest would quickly dissipate.

"I'd like to make a request."

"Go ahead."

"I hate guns. Their pungent gunpowder smell makes me nauseous."

Caius said, "You dare make demands of me. Are you trying to prove your uniqueness with this?"

Linnea said stubbornly, "Is that not allowed?"

"If it's just to stop me from frequently putting it on your forehead to scare you, fine." Caius said. "But I think you need to change your perception of it. It doesn't just represent being harmed. If you're the one holding it, it represents self-protection. Just like those medicines in hospitals that cure diseases."

"I hope I won't encounter so many accidents."

"Many things aren't within our control." Caius laughed softly. "After all, I originally didn't want to strangle a girl's neck in bed either. It was a certain blind little cat who took the initiative to seduce me."

Linnea hoped this topic would pass quickly.

Fortunately, Caius no longer dwelled on this topic either. He sat across the table and had her start eating. "Just eat like this. I don't think you have the energy to get out of bed."

Linnea followed his lead and put food in her mouth. The food prepared by the advanced chef team for the CEO was exquisite and expensive, but her mind was stuffed with various thoughts, which left her in no mood to savor the delicacies. She just chewed mechanically.

Caius noticed her poor appetite. "Linnea, I won't give you time for lunch, so you'd better eat something."

Linnea asked instinctively, "Why?"

"Because in my rare leisure time, I want to have more affairs with my..." Caius paused and smiled. "Underground lover."

In his emerald pupils surging with intense desire, Linnea saw herself.