A Moment in Destiny
Chapter 731 Punishment

"It was an accident!"

"Let me see!" He said and took off her sock.

Looking at the excessive large men's sock, Marley Hughes was annoyed, but he still forced to stay calm. He seemed to have become more and more moody those days, and it needed to be controlled! Today she suddenly left the company, he felt angry at first, and later he thought about it a lot. Maybe, they could get along better if they changed the way.

Helped her take off the socks, his heart hurt quite a bit when he saw the band-aid on the side of her left soft foot. But after making sure it was wrapped well, he relived a bit and said, "What happened?" Didn't she always twist her feet? How was the skin broken?

"I didn't notice and got pricked by something." Her voice was low and she was very nervous. She wasn't sure how he would punish her because of such dumb mistakes she made in the company. He was stunned a bit - pricked?

He thought of the glass ashtray he smashed in the morning, was it because of the ashtray?

Marley thought, his eyebrows tightly frowned, his face was like a sculpture, and his action paused a bit and looked up at her, "It happened in the office?"

She was facing his handsome face, quickly nodded, and lowered her head.

He was taken aback and felt sorry for her. Reaching his hands and holding her foot, he checked thoroughly and asked, "Because of the ashtray?"

"Yes!" She nodded.

When his warm big hand held her little foot, Sylvie only felt all her blood rose to her forehead, and a numb feeling swept through her whole body. She was in panic and took a tremble to take back her foot, but he didn't let it go.

"Doesn't it still hurt?" His tone with a hint of self-accusation. If he was not angry, he wouldn't have had smashed the ashtray, so her foot should have not been hurt.

"You, you just let me know how you will punish me!" She wanted to know the result quickly, she needed time to prepare for it. It was her fault after all.

However, she didn't expect him to be soft and gentle, and he even checked her little foot, which freaked her out. Shouldn't he be mad at her?

He heard her words in a sudden, he looked up speechless at her determined expression. His eyes seemed to flash a hidden smile.

One of his hands holding her feet, and another hand uplifted her chin, seeing her expression as she needed to die a martyr's death, he thought - was it necessary to be so painful? He said, "Sylvie, you are afraid of me to punish you?"

Afraid?

Sylvie swallowed slobber, she curled her lip with a self-mocking smile, but said calmly, "No! It was my fault and I accepted your punishment!"

Marley curled his lips in a suitable range, his low voice faintly said, "What if you won't be punished?"

Sylvie was stunned, shook her head, and whispered, "Don't, you can still punish me! I made a stupid mistake. I took the wrong USB and tried to argue with you, it was my fault."

Marley looked at her quietly and suddenly felt angry without a reason. He put himself in trouble as he found such a secretary. Even though she dealt with a big event well, she actually would make such a low- level mistake. He was emotional today as well. So they were the same kind of people who would make mistakes. He as president, failed to be a role model, how could he punish her? If so, he would also take penalties!

"You went to see Ryan in the afternoon?" He suddenly changed the topic and seemed to avoid talking about punishment.

"He caught a cold!" She first was stunned and then said calmly.

She left her job and went to see a man, which caused the anger to be pulled out again. Marley's face showed a strange smile at the corner of his mouth and stared his narrow eyes at her. Her nervousness was all reflected in his eyes, "He can go to the hospital if he catches a cold. Do you have to go there in person?"

Sylvie only felt the incomprehensible feeling in her heart. He was like a jealous husband who found out that his wife cheated on him. Did Marley always think of her like that? She looked at him, only feeling infinite sadness in her heart. "He would take care of me when I was sick!"

Their relationship was very simple, at least she felt like that. But facing Marley's question just now, she felt that what he said was reasonable, she didn't know what Ryan thought, maybe she needed to figure it out.

"If you really don't like it, then I won't go there anymore!" she whispered. "I will still treat him as a friend, but pay attention to my behaviors, and always remind myself not to go any further and not to do things that friends were not supposed to do."

She didn't finish speaking but was hugged by him. She saw Marley's eyesight changed slightly, and his breathing became quicker. She shut her mouth and looked at him in a panic.

"Good girl!" As he said, he lowered his head and snatched her breath.

"Marley" She struggled.

Marley didn't speak anything and held her tightly with one arm.

Sitting on the sofa, she heard the harsh sound of the zipper being pulled down, and Sylvie was panicked, "Marley...Ah!"

"Sylvie, don't be afraid!" He whispered, ignoring her tension and firmly grabbing her.

She couldn't even cry.

"Hurt?" His voice softened.

"Marley, it hurts!" She whispered, but she couldn't do anything about his sudden change. He seemed to become a beast, and she was his prey.

She felt pain, but she also felt his patience. He was waiting for her, and he kissed her lips until her little pale earlobes turned red.

He started it all over again.

She didn't know what was wrong!

He was so eager, his face was gloomy and his actions were both domineering and gentle. It was mixed with unspeakable contradictions.

"Marley!" She whispered, this was the living room, she knew they couldn't do it here.

"Sylvie, don't betray me!" He whispered in her ear, "Okay?"

Listening to what he said, she was in confusion, and only the part of her body having a strong feeling was closely connected to him. When she heard him ask her, she nodded indiscriminately to answer him. "Ok!"

"Good girl!" he whispered, accelerating what he was doing.

"Marley, shall we go upstairs?"

But he ignored her and continued to hold her tightly.

She was lying softly on the sofa, his head leaning against her ear, she didn't see the expression on his face at that time, and she only felt that his big hand holding her waist tightened. He squeezed her tightly to make her pressed tightly to his chest as if he was going to tear her into pieces and eat her.

"Marley!" She whispered his name, frightened by his sudden passion.

He treated her with, gentleness, despotism, wildness as if he cherished her, but also as mad at her and giving punishments. All that gave her an illusion, the illusion of desperation.

Marley tortured her like he was crazy.

As soon as he let her go, she lost all her strength.

She blushed, leaned softly in his arms, and was carried upstairs by him.

He took her to the bathroom and helped her take a bath. He paid especially attention to her foot. She was so weak but he showed intimacy once more in the bathroom.

She begged for mercy, "Marley, please stop it!"

But he didn't let her go.

When she was cleaned again by him, she was taken out, put on the bed, covered with a quilt. He went to take the medicine box to sterilize her foot first and replaced a new Band-Aid for her, and then went to take a hair drier to help her dry her hair.

She was exhausted with no strength at all, so she didn't notice how gentle he was when he changed the Band-Aid for her.

Her feet were still hurt when he put on alcohol to help her sterilize her wounds, but she was so tired and lack in energy, she hummed when it hurt. She weakly asked, "If I did something wrong in the company, would you punish me?"

"Yes!" He said in a deep voice.

"I will return to the company tomorrow, I will write a report!" she whispered.

"No need! You have been punished just now!" He looked at her and said.

"Huh?" Sylvie was stunned.

Marley saw her stunned face, and he smiled mysteriously, "You have done something wrong, and you have paid for it! And I like your way to pay for it!"

"But-" She was embarrassed.

His tone was teasing, even sexier, and said threateningly, "Next time if you were not careful, I will punish you even harder!"

"Marley!" Sylvie blushed and whispered his name.

"Do you like calling my name so much?" Marley sat on the edge of the bed, wearing pajamas, and poked her nose gently.

Facing his tenderness, she felt a little lost. "You don't need to talk about this anymore, just as it never happened, okay? Now, go to sleep, you are tired, I will wake you up in an hour!"

He turned off the light, only leaving the bedside lamp, got up, and left.

Maybe she was really too tired to think too much, and she fell asleep.

Marley was on the phone in the study room. "How's the investigation? Did you find out anything?"

"Ernie Hughes does have a close relationship with the secret casino, but this is difficult to investigate in depth! Marley, I'm afraid I won't be able to help you as you expected, so don't put too much hope on me." "Yeah!" Marley frowned and said, "Just try your best!"

"Of course I will try my best, but it will take time. My people have been following him for a while, and they got into trouble and lost Ernie. He met with people from the illegal private banks, but we didn't see the people from the casino. The weirdest thing was the people in the casino found Kasper and Teddie, except him!"

"Then what?" Marley put down the file in his hand.

"Under investigation!"

Marley squinted his eyes and had a bad feeling. Was it true that Ernie was playing tricks and wanted to take the 300 million away? This was simply a scam.

"There is indeed something wrong with him!"

Afterward, Marley didn't speak for a long time, then he finally said, "I got it. Thank you!"

Would Ernie harm the Hughes family? But why?

Ernie Hughes? Ernie Hughes?

Marley's doubts in his heart were deepened, and his eyebrows frowned tightly.

It was late at night when Sylvie got up, and Marley did not return to the room. She remembered that the ingredients she bought were still at the door. Did he eat yet? After putting her pajamas on and getting our of bed, she saw that there was a new Band-Aid, which was put on her foot delicately. Marley helped her to change it, and a warm feeling rose in her heart inexplicably.☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐