"I am just blow-drying my hair..."
"1."
Coralie was about to speak when Skylar started counting without mercy.
She paused as she plugged the hair dryer, and her hand was mid-air. She did not know what to do at that moment. "I'm a grown up, I can blow-dry my..."
"2."
Skylar didn't want to listen to her words at all, and he continued to count.
......
"3."
When he counted to three, Coralie rushed to the bedside and sat next to Skylar. Then, she handed him the hairdryer with both hands.
Skylar looked at the woman beside him, and she seemed dissatisfied. He asked, "Do you always blow-dry your own hair?"
"Yes."
"Someone got drunk one day and asked me to blow her hair. She even buried her face here."
With a teasing tone, Skylar pointed to where Coralie had buried her face that day, and he observed her reaction.
Coralie looked at the area Skylar was pointing at, and her face turned red all of a sudden. "No way. That's impossible!"
"Impossible? That day, you were very open-minded."
Skylar raised his hand and took a sip from the bottle on the bedside table. Then, he turned around and pressed Coralie under him. He fed the liquid to Coralie bit by bit through his mouth.
Coralie did not react in time, but when she realized what was happening, she discovered that her mouth was full of wine.
"Ahem, why are you giving me wine?"
"You will speak the truth when you're drunk."
Skylar took another sip of wine and he wanted to continue to kiss her, but Coralie avoided him.
"I don't want to drink anymore. I don't want to drink anymore."
She knew that she would pass out after drinking alcohol. Passing out was not the point, but she was really afraid that she would say something strange when she was drunk.
After all, she was not sure how she would act after she got drunk.
"You're not going to drink?"
Skylar swallowed the mouthful of red wine and looked at her mouth. Small droplets of red wine was flowing down from the corner of her mouth.
She looked rather seductive.
"What do you want to hear from me? I'll tell you. You don't have to feed me wine."
Coralie kept coughing.
She believed that at least when she was sober, she could control what she was saying. Once she was drunk, she wasn't sure what would happen.
"I'm afraid you won't tell the truth."
Skylar looked at Coralie while holding the hair dryer in his hand. He knocked her head with it gently.
"I will tell you the truth. You want to know why I broke up with you back then, right?"
Coralie pouted. She felt helpless and she looked worried.
However, she hadn't thought about what to say to him until now. After all, Lillian Ford was Skylar's mom. Did she want to tell Skylar that Lillian had scolded Hera Jean and herself?
He noticed that she was trying to say something, but she stopped. He frowned slightly and asked, "Is it true that there was another man..."
"No! How is that even possible?" Hearing this, Coralie immediately looked at Skylar with dissatisfaction and protested. "You can accuse me of anything else. However, you can't accuse me of this, absolutely not."
Coralie knew very well that when she was with someone, she would never betray that person.
Back then, even when Howard Schultz had treated her badly, she would try her best to cooperate with him, as she hoped to be a good wife.
Looking at Coralie's angry and irritated expression, Skylar felt a little better. He bent down and opened Coralie's bathrobe gently with one hand. His lips landed on her shoulders, and he asked, "So, why did you break up with me?"
As long as it was not a change of heart, Skylar was willing to accept any other reasons.
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