After being reborn, I make up my mind to stop chasing after my husband and daughter

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Chapter 601

With what little awareness I had left, I managed to force my eyes open. I could have sworn Ryan had already given the key back. So how did he still have it?

Edward burst into the bathroom, his eyes widening at the sight. He rushed over and turned off the shower, then grabbed a bathrobe and wrapped it tightly around me. His voice was strained and rough. “Victoria, what are you doing?”

I was shivering so hard, my hair soaked through, but that stubborn urge inside me was still rampaging. Without the cold water pouring over me, the heat started to return.

Edward grabbed a towel and quickly started drying my hair. Halfway through, he suddenly stopped, staring down at me for a couple of seconds before pulling me fiercely into his arms, holding me tight.

He sat right down on the soaked floor, not giving a damn about the water, crushing me against his chest, his face buried deep in the cool curve of my neck.

“Edward… let me go…” I whispered, my voice weak as I tried with all my might to push him away.

But I was as weak as a kitten–he barely noticed my struggle. With just a little force, he pulled me right back against his chest.

There was a warm, dry scent on him that drifted through his clothes and washed over me.

My mouth was already parched, and the heat radiating from him was like a fuse, so easily setting me ablaze.

hard, my mouth bone–dry. I had no idea what Isabelle Lynn

away. In the end, all it took was a single call to

rumbled in my ear. “Did you get yourself in

blurted out, my mind a total mess. Edward actually thought

tea house waiter giving me that sly, knowing look. In a city crawling with power

your mind, your

act so bold because she

you do to yourself, Ryan’s still going to marry someone else…” Edward’s

so foolish?” he said, his

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him that much?” Edward’s words were low, almost a whisper, disbelief and hurt flickering in his

desperately searching for a way out,

wouldn’t shut

back from his arms, and the moment he said “love,” a rebellious impulse surged up in me. In a fit of defiance, I silenced

and I felt his strong hand at my waist clench

my mind went

was drawing me in, making it impossible

seconds later, his hands gripped my shoulders and pulled me away from

distant