A Surprising Twist of Fates (Sierra and Theo)

Chapter 5

Chater 5 Sierra lowered her head and apologized, her voice trembling slightly. She didn't dare open her eyes to meet Theo's gaze.

Theo's eyes fell to her hands, which were nervously clutching the edge of the blanket. A faint trace of amusement flickered across his face, almost imperceptible.

Without warning, he leaned down, closing the distance between them.

"I don't like it when people talk to me while looking somewhere else," he said.

His cold fingers brushed against her skin as he gently lifted her chin, forcing her to look at him.

Faced with his strikingly handsome features now magnified before her, Sierra's body tensed in an instant. Panic flickered in her wide eyes as unease wrapped itself around her.

"I said I'm sorry," she stammered.

"Sorry for what?"

His eyes, slightly upturned at the corners, carried an innate air of arrogance. Beneath his right eye rested a perfectly placed beauty mark that softened the sharpness of his expression.

There was no denying it, he was breathtakingly mesmerizing.

her nerves. "I'm sorry, Uncle Theo. I won't

the

gave her a meaningful look before straightening

her ribs. She just mistook

did you hurt your

voice sliced through the silence, sharp and

of humiliation from the night before surged back to the surface. Her nose stung with

forcing herself to keep her composure as she steadied her voice. "I fell. It was an

lips pressed tightly together, her emotions

expenses. You're busy— I'm fine now, so you don't need to

studied her smile-a smile that looked more painful than tears.

he turned and walked out of the

the door clicked shut, Sierra's resolve crumbled. She curled up on the hospital bed, her body shaking as

watched her curled figure, his

"Mr. Gray-"

Sierra at the hotel last night," Theo

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