Mr. Pretentious: Miss Valerius, He is Begging for a Title-Chapter 158: Sebastian Ford, Will You Marry Me?

Chapter 158: Chapter 158: Sebastian Ford, Will You Marry Me?
Eleanor Valerius didn’t know what was wrong with her, she vomited until she choked and tears welled up in her eyes.
"Not feeling well?"
Sebastian Ford stood behind her, holding her slightly trembling body, lifted her hair with his big hand, and placed his palm on her forehead to feel her temperature.
"No fever, is your stomach upset? I’ll take you to the hospital for a check-up."
"No need, I’m fine..."
Eleanor shook her head gently, feeling a little better after vomiting the food she just ate.
However, her heart was pounding especially fast.
The weakness from prolonged lack of rest made her body sway, and she was held tightly in Sebastian’s embrace.
"You haven’t slept since last night, nor have you eaten anything?"
Sebastian frowned as he asked, already knowing the answer in his heart.
Knowing he would get angry, Eleanor dared not answer him directly.
"Maybe it’s the emotions affecting my stomach, wasting the noodles you cooked for me."
She had felt uncomfortable before, but it seemed like the emotional collapse last night caused a knot in her chest that wouldn’t disperse.
"I’m fine, just need a couple of days of rest, no need to go to the hospital."
Things at the Ford Family today were dangerous, she and he needed to avoid suspicion.
Upon hearing this, Sebastian suppressed his hidden anger, but also didn’t want to further stress her emotionally.
"I’ll make you some porridge, after eating take a bath and then sleep well."
"Okay."
Eleanor appeared obedient and docile.
After drinking a bowl of porridge, she let out a low cry of pain while bathing in the bedroom.
Sebastian immediately paid attention to her.
"What’s wrong?"
"My fingers hurt a bit."
Eleanor was momentarily stunned, looking down she saw the light red bloodstain between her fingers.
The next moment, she smiled indifferently, numb to her own physical pain.
The death of Ivy Valerius, her guilt and self-blame were a form of self-punishment.
Sebastian immediately restrained her wrists, stopping her from touching the water, bathed her, and carried her back to bed.
The wounds in the cuts couldn’t be medicated.
He couldn’t forget the image of Eleanor collapsing in despair at the Ford Family.
Yet until now, she hadn’t mentioned it to him.
In mutual silence, it was Sebastian who couldn’t hold back and said to her: "Can you guess who the real murderer of Ivy Valerius is?"
Eleanor’s eyes slightly trembled, her voice tense.
"It’s the Donovan Family."
"The Donovan Family has power and influence in Emberfall, this is beyond the scope in which you can seek revenge, don’t challenge social hierarchy."
Sebastian seemed to be telling her, as well as hinting.
To counter those with power, one must have even more power.
However, Eleanor showed no reaction to his words.
She could tell that Sebastian was reminding her to ask him for help.
But what happened at the Ford Family today was a wake-up call for her.
Just like the Donovan Family, the Ford Family was also a prominent and powerful family.
She knew Sebastian wouldn’t help her without limits.
Even if he loved her, that love wouldn’t outweigh the Ford Family’s reputation.
Moreover, Sebastian didn’t love her.
Their dealings in bed were mere stolen pleasures, void of tender affection.
If Sebastian were to defy his grandfather’s orders for her, she would certainly have to pay a greater price.
The rules of survival in this world taught her not to expect being an exception in unconditional favor.
Delusional affections would come back to haunt her.
"Yes, I’ll remember what you said."
Eleanor didn’t utter the words Sebastian wanted to hear, she looked up at him and softly said: "I want to sleep."
Sebastian squinted his eyes dangerously, he didn’t believe Eleanor would genuinely obey.
The little fox already showed signs of frenzied loss of control.
After a while.
He said nothing, just held Eleanor while they lay down to sleep.
Though they shared a bed, they dreamed different dreams.
Eleanor’s fatigue and debilitation led to a deep sleep.
However, Sebastian was wide awake in insomnia.
He was torn by internal conflicts.
Clearly unable and unwilling to give Eleanor unconditional security, yet greedily desiring her trust and dependence.
...
The following day.
Eleanor voluntarily returned to the Valerius Family.
Upon seeing her, Regina Jennings completely lost control, pointing and cursing viciously: "You ungrateful thing, how dare you come back? I raised you all these years for nothing, and you bite back at me! The one keeping watch over Chloe in the hospital was arranged by your paramour, wasn’t it? I really underestimated your abilities!"
Eleanor no longer pretended and sneered sarcastically.
"Mother, it’s my first time seeing you so insane, are you panicking? How does it feel to be bitten by the dog you raised yourself?"
Regina’s eyes were filled with rage, it was indeed beyond her control.
"Don’t think you can run to the Ford Family and make trouble to escape the Valerius Family! I am forever the legal guardian of you and Chloe!"
"Who said I want to escape the Valerius Family?"
Eleanor laughed and asked back: "I’m your last pawn in the Valerius Family, you’d better not think of disciplining me, or I could expose your evidence at the Ford Family. Mother, I will continue to be the third miss of the Valerius Family, and your life will rely on me for the rest of it."
She’s going to send Regina Jennings to prison for the rest of her life!
"Eleanor Valerius, I’m warning you not to seek your own death!"
Regina didn’t seem to be able to decipher Eleanor’s intentions at that moment.
...
Due to public pressure, Mrs. Croft discreetly shut down the beauty salon temporarily.
The truth about the sex scandal gradually sank into oblivion.
Damian Lowell contacted Eleanor, wanting to help her at this time.
But, Eleanor refused Damian’s goodwill, as he wasn’t Vincent.
These days, she and Flora were focused on investigating Mrs. Croft.
"Eleanor, since you’ve already fallen out with Regina Jennings, why not take the chance and leave the Valerius Family?"
"Wearing the identity of the Valerius Family’s third miss, Mrs. Croft’s resentment against me will be counted upon the Valerius Family. I regret not having managed to obtain audio and video evidence before the plan was exposed. So I need to provoke Regina Jennings and Mrs. Croft against each other!"
Eleanor set to action as soon as she said it.
She found out Mrs. Croft values her only daughter, Zoe Croft, the most.
By deliberately challenging and overshadowing, Zoe Croft felt aggrieved and surely Mrs. Croft wouldn’t let her off.
However, Eleanor didn’t anticipate that luring enemies would bring Sebastian instead?!
"How did you know I was here?"
Is he monitoring her?
"Eleanor Valerius, to take revenge, to what extent can you go mad!"
Sebastian furiously took her away by force.
Subsequently, Croft Family’s reckoning fell through.
Watching Eleanor’s silence made Sebastian angrier, his large hand gripped her face, forcing her to face his scrutiny.
"You lie and play nice in front of me, but secretly lure enemies with yourself? If you must seek revenge, why don’t you ask me? You’d rather struggle in the Valerius Family and be threatened by Regina Jennings than switch to me?"
"Switch to... being controlled and threatened by you?"
Eleanor held her breath, didn’t struggle, and mockingly asked: "Sebastian Ford, your eyes have too much desire to tame me, but I can’t obediently comply, nor do I want... to be your dog."
The most embarrassing words finally spilled from her lips.
Because she liked Sebastian Ford.
Under Regina Jennings’ control, she could feel hatred but could not hate him.
Imprisonment of emotions is another kind of cage.
Taking advantage of her current clear mind without developing "love brain," she doesn’t want to fall deeper.
She just wants to maintain a last shred of ridiculous self-esteem in front of someone she likes.
"Eleanor Valerius, in your eyes am I this kind of man?!"
Sebastian was enraged, sneering in indignation.
"I didn’t expect someone with a soft waist but has a spine! From the moment you climbed into my bed, entangled with me night after night, you’ve been deceiving me! You clearly distinguish between love and lust!"
But he couldn’t seem to separate them!
"As long as you show a little sincerity, and really behave once in front of me, you can get my favoritism! Why don’t you want it? Why don’t you choose to ask me!"
Sebastian, out of control, questioned her.
"I want, power I can hold in my own hands."
Eleanor looked up at him and calmly asked: "Sebastian Ford, do you want to marry me?"