CHAPTER 252: CHAPTER 250: TAKEN A LIKING TO YOU [5 UPDATES]

"Hartley, stop messing around with my aunt," Liam Spencer said, a bit exasperated. If it weren’t for their long-term friendship, he would have kicked her out by now.

Hartley looked at the man’s helpless expression, his evident disdain for her, and felt extremely displeased. Reflecting on his tolerance for Maya Spencer, she was almost dying of jealousy.

So, she placed the bowl from her hands onto the nearby side table earnestly and asked seriously, "Liam, what on earth are you thinking? Maya is about to get married and become your sister-in-law. She doesn’t have feelings for you; she’s just provoking you. Why do you allow yourself to be tormented like this? Can’t you find someone else? Besides, she’s not Grace. You should face your own heart, right?"

Although Hartley didn’t confess directly to Liam, her words were filled with a rejection and dislike for Maya. She wished that Maya would get married quickly, stop disturbing Liam, and not use her slight resemblance to Grace to disrupt Liam’s emotions.

On the side, as Liam listened to the girl’s advice, he felt not the slightest comfort, but rather more frustration.

He just couldn’t understand why everyone thought he saw Maya as Grace.

He admitted that when Grace left back then, he was sad and unhappy, but he had long gotten over it. Besides, Maya and Grace were completely different individuals. Maya was gentle to a fault, while Grace had a terrible temper. He had never seen Grace in Maya. He knew very clearly that the person he liked was Maya, not because she looked like Grace.

Therefore, he turned around, looked Hartley straight in the eye, and said solemnly, "Maya is Maya. I’ve never seen her as Grace. I’m not as deeply emotional as you think, still pining over Grace after all these years. I’ve long let her go. Her passing is a regret. But it doesn’t affect my feelings for Maya. I’m telling you clearly, I like Maya, no matter what she does, I like her."

Liam was so honest with Hartley because he didn’t want her to confess to him. After all, they were too familiar with each other, and he didn’t want things to get awkward or have any entanglement.

In this life, he hoped just one person might see all of his flaws and domineering nature, and that person was Maya.

Hartley listened to Liam’s confession, hardly breathing.

She had never imagined that Liam would have such a passionate side, so unabashed about his feelings. She remembered clearly, how he never uttered a word of affection from the time Grace pursued him to the breakup, merely smiling at her at most, saying a few more words.

Jealousy surged in her, making her feel miserable. She envied Maya for being able to have such an honest love from Liam.

Of course, she also knew that the words Liam spoke were said intentionally for her to hear, meant to make her give up.

But seeing Liam’s passion, witnessing his human side, only made her want to have him more, want to be with him. She wanted to become the Maya he talked about and possess his domineering love. For the first time, she had such a strong desire, a desire to possess Liam.

Thus, she planned to confess her feelings to Liam; she didn’t want to hide anymore. She wanted him to face his feelings, just as she would face hers.

So, she took a deep breath and said with a smile, "Even if you like her, so what? Maya doesn’t like you. She’d rather become your sister-in-law than your wife. Can’t you look back at me? What’s not good enough about me? Why have your eyes never seen me? After Grace left, why am I still not your girlfriend?"

"Liam, I’m now officially telling you, I like you. Since I can remember, I have liked you. In this life, if I don’t marry you, I won’t marry anyone. Didn’t you say a few days ago that if I liked someone and he didn’t marry me, I’d leave it to you? I’m handing it over to you now. I’m formally notifying you that I like you."

Listening to the girl’s confession, Liam’s face turned sour. At the same time, he admired Hartley’s thick skin—being so forward for a girl was no easy feat.

Sure enough, it fulfilled that old saying: when you like someone, whatever they do is good; when you don’t like them, even if they bare their heart, it’s disgusting.

Afterward, he took a deep breath, slightly lowered his head, and said, staring directly into Hartley’s eyes with utmost seriousness, "Hartley, I’ve said this nicely in advance. Don’t humiliate yourself, and stop showing up in front of me. I find it awkward."

The girl listened to Liam’s blunt words and was nearly driven to the point of spewing blood from anger. Wasn’t this unbelievably direct? He didn’t give her any face, making her uncomfortable.

Hartley’s understanding of Liam was still far from enough, always thinking him to be aloof, polite, and graceful, never expecting he could be so sharp-tongued and not giving the other party any face at all.

She swallowed as she gazed into Liam’s eyes, biting her lower lip in anger. She wanted to retaliate but found herself at a loss for words.

Yet she couldn’t bear just vanishing from Liam’s sight. She was unwilling for her feelings to die in the light, unwilling to have known Liam for so many years, only for Maya to beat her to the punch.

Her intuition told her she wanted to have this man, and she should be even more proactive.

So suddenly, she stretched out her arms, wrapping them tightly around Liam’s neck, leapt directly onto him, and held him firmly.

In an instant, Liam was stunned. He hadn’t expected Hartley to be so bold as to force herself upon him. When he reached out to push Hartley away, she lowered her head and kissed his lips.

For a moment there, even Liam felt like hitting her. He raised his right hand, grabbed her wrist, and tried to push her back, but the girl fiercely bit down on his lip.

Once Liam relaxed from the pain, her small hands once again gripped tightly around his neck.

Finally, Liam really exploded, grabbing both of Hartley’s hands and giving her a heavy push backward. With a "bang" sound, she fell directly on the ground. Fortunately, there was a thick carpet, so she didn’t get hurt.

As Liam rolled his eyes at the girl on the floor, he lifted his hand to wipe his lip disdainfully, only to find that Hartley had bitten it so hard that it bled.

His mood instantly darkened. Lately, there had been too many issues, enough to irritate him.

What annoyed him the most was that Maya was impossible to appease, refusing to even pay him any attention.

Alright! He admitted it; his attempts to woo her were far from clever.

On the floor, Hartley, rubbing her sore bottom, pouted and complained, "Liam, are you even human? Pushing me so hard, I came to visit the sick, didn’t I?"