After leaving the living room, Easton Holmes had already caught up with Lily Turner, who had left earlier. He didn’t care whether Sophia Wood or Alice Turner in the living room would see, he reached out and directly grabbed her.
Once he had his hand on her, he had no intention of giving her a chance to shake it off, not even a slight chance. His grip was not too tight or too loose, just enough so she couldn’t break free.
"Does your family have a tradition of being clingy?"
Lily Turner tried to shake off the hand holding her, but couldn’t. She lowered her head to look at that large hand, and finally followed it up to its owner, her face showing her dissatisfaction.
His cousin was so clingy, and now he was acting the same way. Both cousins were like this, she couldn’t help but wonder.
But his cousin was at least a little girl, while he was a grown man acting like this. She just couldn’t comprehend it.
Easton Holmes initially didn’t understand what Lily Turner meant, but when he frowned and looked at her, he suddenly thought of his cousin Athena Linton, "Was Athena clinging to you to come along just now?"
Although he was asking her, he didn’t need her to answer to know the answer.
She must have insisted on coming along, otherwise, Lily wouldn’t be complaining about him like this.
"It’s one thing for a little girl to behave like that, but for you to behave like this too, I’m truly impressed with you." Lily Turner didn’t hide this from Easton Holmes, though she didn’t directly answer his question either. Her meaning was clear; she had an issue with the behavior of the cousins, especially him.
Being scolded by a woman, Easton Holmes was not the least bit unhappy. Instead, he showed a happy smile, "This only shows one thing, that my wife is a highly sought-after catch."
His wife was indeed a catch. His cousin wanted to cling to her, her mother and sister wanted to cling to her, and he, as her husband, wanted to cling to her even more.
But she was pushing him away. If he didn’t have other things to do, he wouldn’t have left.
"Is that so? Then why do I not feel like I’m a catch?" Lily Turner thought Easton Holmes was deliberately teasing her, so she simply rolled her eyes at him, expressing her displeasure.
Seeing this, the smile on Easton Holmes’ face instantly disappeared, replaced by a serious expression, "Looks like I didn’t do my job well enough for my wife to feel like she’s a catch."
"Wife! I’m not leaving, I’ll stay with you..."
Hearing this, Lily Turner suddenly stopped walking, turned sideways to confront Easton Holmes, "How can you say that? You’re putting pressure on me."
She really thought he was going to stay and not leave, and she got anxious. Her mother and sister were uncomfortable speaking because he was around.
The three of them wanted to have a mother-daughter talk, but with him in the mix, how could they talk?
Easton Holmes just wanted to tease Lily Turner a little, but seeing her like this, he instantly lost the mood.
"Did I pressure you?"
He looked down at her without blinking, as if he was trying to see through her body into her heart.
The man’s gaze was too penetrating, so Lily Turner instinctively raised her free hand and blocked it in front of his eyes, "No, I was just speaking casually, can you not take it seriously please?"
Having lived with him for so long, while she might not fully understand him, she knew at least ninety percent of him. Seeing him like that, she knew he wasn’t happy.