The Understated Dragon Lord novel Chapter 426

"What are you doing?" Jessica demanded, startling Daniel into instinctively hiding his phone under the covers.

"What are you hiding?" she asked, snatching the phone from his grasp. When she saw the beautiful woman on the screen, her face clouded over. "You're hiding under the covers looking at this?"

"Well, if you'd twirl for me, honey, I wouldn't need the app! If you're willing to dance for me, I might even delete it," Daniel teased.

"I should twirl for you? I'll show you a twirl!" Upset that Daniel had been secretly watching dance videos, Jessica grabbed his thigh and twisted hard.

"Ow! Ow!" Daniel's pitiful cries filled the room.

"Quiet!" Jessica yelled, her voice ferocious.

"You're making so much noise, it's like I'm bullying you."

"Aren't you bullying me? You’ve turned my whole thigh blue," Daniel complained, rolling his eyes.

"You jerk! How dare you roll your eyes at me! Try it again, and see what I'll do!"

She was incredibly aggressive tonight. Daniel figured she must be upset from waiting too long, so he tried to get rid of her quickly with a cheeky grin. "So, honey, what brings you to my room in the middle of the night?"

"What do you think?" she snapped back.

"Oh... I get it."

Daniel then stretched out on the bed, invitingly spreading his arms and legs.

"What do you mean by that?" Jessica asked, taken aback.

Hmph!

Jessica scoffed. "Think Beauty would be interested in you? She's an ambitious woman, and I doubt she'd give you the time of day."

Jessica was confident about this. Even if Daniel had many qualities, she believed no other woman could see what made this goofy man so special, especially someone like Beauty, a member of New York's power-society Matthews family.

"So, knowing she wouldn't be interested, you still lent me to her. Did you know that she took me to a place called Spirit Animal Valley and called dozens of people to ambush me? Those guys came from battlefields, special forces soldiers who could take on ten at a time."

"And then?"

"Well, those dozens of nobodies didn't lay a finger on me. I laid them out flat. They were all rolling on the ground, howling in pain. Even their boss, that 'Commando King,' ended up kneeling and calling me 'grandpa!'"