Raise Love-144-Girls should learn to love themselves more

As expected of you, Ryder.

If one day the little girl doesn't want you anymore, it could really drive you crazy.

Finn Alvarez couldn't help but let out a soft sneer.

Aria was protected behind Ryder. By chance, she turned around and caught something, and couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.

Those people... seemed to be Finn Alvarez, Ryan Bennett, and Oliver Kim?

Since she and Ryder got together, she had interacted with his roommates quite a few times and recognized them at a glance.

Coming back to her senses, she quickly reached out and tugged at Ryder's sleeve.

"Darling Rye."

"Hmm?" Ryder handed her a snowball and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong? Are you cold?"

"I'm okay." Aria shook her head.

Ryder had somehow found two pairs of gloves and put them on her hands at the beginning. Even if she held the snow, she didn't feel much cold.

Not far away, under the cover of the crowd, there were two sneaky figures slowly moving towards them.

Her eyes flickered, and she subtly pointed in that direction. Standing on tiptoe, she leaned over to Ryder's ear and whispered, "It seems to be your roommates."

Ryder let out an "hmm", with the end of his voice slightly rising, carrying a hint of doubt. He was about to look over in that direction. "Where?"

Aria quickly hugged his neck and turned him back, not letting him look. She said mysteriously, "It's about 45 degrees behind you. Don't look back for now."

Ryder didn't speak and raised his eyebrows.

The girls on the opposite side didn't know what was going on. They saw that their damn powerful enemy's attack suddenly stopped, and then—

The two of them hugged each other??

Sophie: "Shit."

Olivia: "... Shit."

Oli: "...... Shit."

The three of them looked at them, then exchanged a blank look. Suddenly, they were angry. "This is so annoying. Very annoying. Damn it! It's too much!"

"They actually dare to be so disrespectful and even look down on us three opponents!"

Here, the two people who had aroused public anger didn't realize at all that their behavior was almost blinding their opponents.

Ryder obediently didn't look back. He just lazily looked at the little girl, furrowed his brows, and reached out to wrap his arms around her soft waist, pulling her closer to him.

Aria was already on tiptoe and not standing steadily. She leaned forward unexpectedly and let out a surprised "ah" as she fell into his arms.

The boy let out a low laugh.

Before Aria could speak, Ryder hugged her tightly, lowered his head slightly, and leaned in to her ear, saying with a smile, "Go ahead. I'm listening."

"..." Aria pursed her lips. She almost forgot what she was going to say because of his actions. She looked over Ryder's shoulder in that direction.

The two sneaky people, plus Finn Alvarez, had slowly moved closer.

She whispered, "They seem to want to scare you secretly."

Ryder lowered his eyes and didn't speak. Instead, he raised his hand and rubbed the corner of the little girl's eye, wiping away the few drops of snow water that had accidentally gotten on it.

Aria might not know that when she looked up at him like this now, with her almond-shaped eyes shining brightly and a smile on her quiet eyebrows and eyes, looking sly and lively, she was really charming.

She was always gentle and quiet when dealing with others.

Only when facing him was she a bit more sweet and obedient, and occasionally, very rarely, she would show a little temper.

But Ryder's attention was almost entirely on her, so how could he not notice?

She was restraining herself.

And it was an unconscious restraint.

Whenever she was about to let go completely, it seemed as if she would touch a certain line, and this line was pulling her, making her always hold back.

He was so sensitive.

He just didn't say anything. He thought that the little girl might not fully trust and rely on him yet, which meant he hadn't done enough.

He wanted to be even better to her.

Girls should learn to love themselves more.

His little girl deserved to be doted on.

"So what do you think we should do?" At this moment, Aria seemed to have suddenly gotten rid of that restraining line and revealed her most genuine self. Ryder's eyes flickered slightly, and he asked with a soft smile in a low voice.

"How about we scare them back?"

Aria blinked, and there was eagerness and a bit of naughtiness in her eyes. "Okay."

"... Hmm."

Ryder buried his face in her neck and couldn't help but laugh softly.

Damn.

She was so cute that it was going to drive him crazy.

Aria shrank her neck and held her breath to resist the heat and itch from his breath. She stared intently and whispered to Ryder, "They're almost here. There are still two meters."

"Ooh."

Ryder held her and turned sideways. His eyes casually glanced in the direction the little girl had mentioned, and sure enough, he saw two sneaky figures.

The two of them were hunched over and were even covering their faces with their hands in a self-deceiving way, huddled together and muttering something.

It was so strange that the people next to them kept avoiding them and looking at them with strange eyes.

Two men over 1.8 meters tall, not feeling ashamed at all.

If you had to pick an adjective, it could only be "sneaky". Apparently, Finn Alvarez thought so too and quickly distanced himself from them.

He looked up and met Ryder's half-smiling, half-sneering gaze.

Finn Alvarez shrugged, spread his hands with an innocent smile, and distanced himself completely. "Hey, this has nothing to do with me."

Ryder clicked his tongue, took back his gaze, patted Aria's head, and whispered something affectionately in her ear. gòйЪ.ōΓg

Aria looked at him with a smile and obediently let Ryder stroke her head. Then she pushed him away and went to the other side to find her roommates.

The little girl and her roommates huddled together and said something, and they also looked in that direction.

Then they started bending down to make snowballs.

"Tsk." Finn Alvarez looked at his unlucky good brother with a bit of pity.

After holding back for a long time, he couldn't help it. Like someone who loved to watch the excitement and didn't think it was a big deal, he gloated and opened his phone to record.

Ryan Bennett and Oliver Kim thought their plan was perfect.

One of them would go from the front, and the other would surround from the side.

No matter how calm this person was, he couldn't predict the sudden scare. Although they usually couldn't beat Ryder, they could still scare him once.

The two of them, who were focused on plotting how to play a trick on their good brother, didn't notice at all that they had already been quietly surrounded by several people.

"Hey, why did the fairy suddenly leave?" Ryan Bennett squinted his eyes. "This isn't right. Isn't Fourth Brother usually clingy?"

The crowd was pushing and shoving, and it was very difficult for the two of them to move.

"I don't know. Maybe she went to find her friends?"

Oliver Kim said, "The girls who were playing with them just now seemed to be the fairy's roommates... Hey? Where did Fourth Brother go?"

The two of them were whispering to each other. When they looked up, they suddenly found that the target person was gone.

Ryan Bennett was stunned for a moment.

Suddenly, he had a bad premonition, and this feeling was somehow familiar, so familiar that his right eyelid started twitching wildly.

—A strong sense of misfortune.

He didn't know why, but he couldn't help but think of his previous unlucky experiences. Ryan Bennett quickly pressed his right eyelid and told Oliver Kim about this feeling.

Oliver Kim was busy looking for the missing Ryder and didn't take it to heart at all. He laughed at him for overthinking. "Bro, you're definitely worrying too much."