A Replacement Bride

Chapter 69

Katherine assumed Aberama had left as it was dead silent when she walked out to get a bottle of coke from the fridge. But lo and behold, something felt off as soon as she took a couple of steps. At that, she looked toward the couch to find two men staring inexplicably silently at each other. Sensing a storm brewing, she diverted her path toward the living room.

"What are you two doing?" she couldn't help asking as she looked back and forth between the two.

Those oblivious might think they had a thing for one another with how they riveted their gazes at each other.

Joaquin subtly withdrew his gaze to look up at Katherine to find her in a loose, casual cotton nightgown and her pair of long legs out on display. Her disheveled hair and I-just-got-out-of-bed look took some of her usual aloofness away, replacing it with seductiveness and cheekiness.

With a barely noticeable quirk of a brow, he asked naturally, "Is my dear fiancée so open that she'd invite just about any man to stay over and even walk around in front of him wearing like this?"

Stumped, Katherine reflexively looked at herself. It was an average nightgown, and whatever shouldn't be on display wasn't on display. There was nothing indecent at all.

Then, seeing how Joaquin looked like he had come to catch her in an adulterous act, she couldn't help chuckling. "Why, Mr. Levisay, are you jealous? Are you upset that I've invited a man to stay?"

"You're free to do whatever you want. It has nothing to do with me." Joaquin looked deadpan on the outside, but on the inside, the stuffiness was making him very uncomfortable.

The feeling was unprecedented, and he wasn't sure just what exactly Katherine meant to him.

What tied them together was merely a piece of the marriage contract. If anything, they had an encounter before confirming their agreement.

This woman was unconventionally temperamental. She might look like a babe in the woods, but she was actually a femme fatale. Not only that, she was an expert in medical science.

more he found her mysterious; the more attention

honestly didn't like this sense

and sat on the armchair, leaning back lazily. "Mr. Levisay, we have a marriage agreement. I don't meddle in your business, you don't meddle in mine, and we can all be

honestly thought

be mad to deliberately come over and see if they

again, Beatrice's words from the other

to suppress his anger. "Go back to the Levisay Residence with me today. You should just live there

not see each other before their marriage. I find it pretty comfortable staying here." Katherine smiled and winked seductively at Joaquin, who was rendered

make you some food?" Aberama thought things were going further south by the minute as he watched the

how you look at it, this is a classic squabble among two

Katherine nodded and answered inattentively, "Yeah, go ahead. Make it a

eating like a pig tonight!" While speaking, Aberama even looked ambiguously at

up and

you not leaving, Mr. Levisay? Do you want to stay for some food as well?" Katherine asked casually

answered crisply, sitting back down onto the couch when he had already

rendered stumped for a moment before realizing what had just

more shameless?! Was I

couch and made himself