Chapter 40 Good Contract Husband

"What about me?" Lucas asked. "What do you think of me?"

The question made her hands freeze over the onions she was cutting. It was something she least expected.

Hearing her praise the CEO version of himself, he wondered what she thought of him. To everyone, including his family, he was a waste of space, time and money-- not like his father ever spent a dime on him after his mother's death.

The rumours were cruel and harsh but he had come to live with it. Those were probably the first things she heard before she agreed to marry him. He wondered if she too saw him as what everyone said he was.

Her silence, however, stretched on for too long that he began to conclude she was just like everyone else.

That was too bad, he had been looking forward to her answer.

"Forget I asked-"

"You're a good contract husband," she said over him.

Now that was shocking… and new but very shocking still. "Wait, that's it?"

She giggled and turned to him. He arched his brow in disbelief and she smirked, feeli