CHAPTER 381: CHAPTER 379: THE FLESH WAS BITTEN OFF [4 UPDATES]

"I’ll call you a lapdog! Lapdog! Lapdog!" Ella Turner closed her eyes tightly, continually calling Elijah Reed a lapdog.

Seeing her speak without any restraint, Elijah was so furious that blood rushed to his head. He clamped her neck with his left hand and held her soft face with his right, bent down, and unceremoniously bit her soft face.

Instantly, Ella was dumbfounded. She then felt her cheek hurt badly. When she raised her little hand to push Elijah, he bit her even harder.

Ella wanted to curse him, but the pain was so intense that she couldn’t even open her mouth.

After that, she wailed, tears ’pattering’ and sliding down onto Elijah’s face. She had actually been bitten into tears by Elijah.

Listening to the girl’s cries, Elijah couldn’t get rid of the image of her cursing him, so his anger not only didn’t abate but instead made him bite her even harder.

At this moment, Ella dared not push him anymore because the more she pushed, the more painful the bites became. So, she tightly grasped his arms, allowing him to bite her face until he calmed down.

She cried and cried, feeling like the flesh on her face would be bitten off, so she cried even more sorrowfully.

Originally, the crowd watching thought they were a couple playfully messing around and believed Elijah was kissing Ella, until they heard Ella sobbing heavily. Only then did they realize that the clean and handsome boy was biting people.

Finally, the crowd couldn’t take it anymore and slowly approached, pulling on Elijah’s clothes and urging, "Young man, this isn’t right. You’ve made the girl cry; let go already."

"Hey, handsome, enough! If you bite the pretty girl’s face until it breaks, will you take responsibility?"

"Exactly! You look so refined; how can you be so rude, biting a girl’s face in public? Aren’t you embarrassed?"

"Handsome guy, enough is enough."

When everyone started condemning Elijah, his mind finally cleared from the word ’dog,’ realizing he seemed to be doing something very wrong.

Thus, he immediately removed his large hands from Ella’s neck and the back of her head, raised his right hand, wiped his mouth awkwardly, and looked embarrassedly at Ella.

He saw Ella’s fair and pink face marked with a circle of red and purple bite marks, with her hands still clutching his arms, crying "Wow wow."

As he cast a sidelong glance around, he found everyone was pointing at him, criticizing him.

For a moment, Elijah was beyond embarrassed, wishing to dig a hole and disappear.

"It hurts! The flesh is bitten off." Ella tightly grabbed Elijah’s arm, sobbing with grievance and pain, not daring to touch her face, fearing it would be a cavity if she did.

Elijah looked at the girl crying out in pain, twisted his arm to struggle a bit, but couldn’t shake Ella off.

Seeing the drool from his mouth still on the bite marks on her face, he blushed, quickly raised his right hand, wiped the drool from her face, and replied, "Nothing’s bitten off."

"You’re lying. You can’t leave. I’ll call my brother." Every time Ella was wronged, Ethan Turner would support her.

At this moment, she was crying while rummaging through her bag for her phone, only to discover after a while that Elijah had already taken it away. So she released her right hand holding his arm and stretched her palm out in front of him, saying, "Give me back my phone."

Seeing that she was calling for reinforcements, Elijah felt guilty and hastily removed her left hand from his arm, pretending to be calm, placed the phone in her hand, then turned to run away, but was stopped by the crowd watching the drama.

"Hey, handsome, you’re too irresponsible, biting the girl’s face like this and wanting to leave without even an apology?"

"Exactly, you bit down too hard; it’s bruised purple. It must hurt a lot."

Instantly, Elijah felt even more embarrassed, blushing as he explained, "She called me names first."

"Oh! So she called you names, and you bite her back? Really, a gentleman uses words rather than fists!"

With no other choice, Elijah had to turn again to Ella, look at her with great embarrassment, and say, "Ella, sorry about that. I have to work. I’m leaving first. If your face has any issues, contact me for compensation."

Anyway, Ella had his phone number and his work address. If she wanted revenge, he couldn’t escape.

But the scene was just too embarrassing, and he wanted to leave immediately.

Listening to Elijah’s apology, Ella grabbed him tightly again, crying, "You’re not allowed to leave; my brother is coming soon."

Her face was still burning with pain! How could she let Elijah go so easily? Even if she couldn’t beat Elijah, she had to wait for Ethan to come and help her bite back.

"Ella, don’t be ridiculous. You called me a dog, so I bit you once, but I won’t drag you to meet the BOSS. Consider things even." Elijah said this with a guilty conscience, feeling he might never break free from the association with ’dog’ for his life.

"I didn’t provoke you; why did you bite me? You can’t leave. I’ll have my brother bite back for me." Ella couldn’t feel at ease until she vented her grievance.

"Let go of me." Elijah said this and pried her hand off, pushed through the crowd, and hurriedly fled.

The thought of being bitten back by Ethan was too beautiful to imagine, so the best strategy was to run away.

"So irresponsible, biting the girl like this and not even taking her to the hospital."

"Exactly, he looks so genteel; how could he do such a thing."

Under everyone’s condemnation, Elijah finally left guilty.

As he exited the scene, he couldn’t help but feel remorse, recalling the bite mark on Ella’s face. He exhaled deeply, scratched his head, and blamed himself: Why did I bother with her for no reason?

When Elijah returned to the top-floor conference room of the department store, Liam Spencer was sitting at the meeting table, flipping through his phone nonchalantly and asking, "So, is the issue settled?"

"Yeah! It’s settled." Elijah was still immersed in the dispute with Ella earlier, his expression still anxious.

Hearing his slightly tense voice, Liam glanced up at him, noticing his tightly knit eyebrows and complicated expression, as if he had done something wrong. This expression rarely appeared on Elijah’s face.

This made Liam curious, so he asked, "Why are you so nervous? Did you do something wrong?"

"No, just encountered someone, had a little conflict." Elijah scratched his head to explain without bringing up Ella’s name.

"A woman?" Liam grew even more curious.

"Yeah!"

"Elijah, you should find a woman." Liam smiled with a hint of meaning, making Elijah even more embarrassed.

Thinking, BOSS, you’re making fun of me. I was helping you vent, okay?

Meanwhile, in the cafe downstairs, Ella was covering the left side of her face with her left hand, pouting, and approached Maya Spencer with grievance.

Maya looked at the long-missed Ella, noticed her red eyes, immediately stood up, and held her hand, asking, "Ella, what’s wrong? Why did you cut your hair?"