Hellbound With You novel Chapter 766

Chapter 766 - Cool down

The water fell on her, jolting her out of her shock, quickly extinguishing the sparks of fire ignited by their brief contact.

When Alicia moved slightly forward and started washing her face in haste, he retracted his hand and backed off as well. After that, he then offered her the soap. Alicia blinked at it for a while but she eventually took it. For some reason, the tension that was ignited was not dropping.

Alicia cleared her throat, wanting to distract herself.

"Is everything good?" was the words that came out of her lips. She regretted that, wondering why she had spouted out such words of all things. Her face was so red as she tried to redeem herself. "You're suddenly back to being the quiet Ezekiel again?"

He shifted a little, looking slightly upwards as he slowly ran his tongue across his teeth.

"You're so talkative just a while ago. So it's weird you're suddenly so quiet again." Alicia blabbered on nonsensically. Her nervousness caused her to just want to fill this growing silence between them with something… anything. But now that she mentioned this, curiosity suddenly hit her, and she really wanted to know.

"Talkative…" he echoed, shaking his head a little.

"You were so talkative just a while ago. So don't you dare deny it." she was not aware that she was facing him now, even tipping her chin up as if daring him to deny it. "You're actually quite talkative, aren't you?"

"No, I'm not. I just don't have a choice but to speak as much words as I can since I touched you." he answered her.

"And why would you even bother to do that?" she raised a brow, obviously doubtful at his claims.

"If I don't talk, it would rile you up, wouldn't it? Talking is not my thing… but I would choose it over you being so emotional. I can only choose the lesser of the two evils."

What?!! Her jaw almost hit the floor listening to the way he had explained his reasoning on why he seemed so 'talkative' according to her description.

"Did you just referred to 'talking' as an evil?" Alicia was not sure to be amazed or shocked at his way of looking at it.

"I'm not that fond of it." He spoke lowly, defending his stand.

Alicia was speechless. She could only shake her head when he spoke again.

"Are you really okay bathing with your undergarments on like that?" he asked but his gaze was holding hers, never straying to look downwards or anywhere further than her chin.