And The Daddy Is… The Infertile Guy?!

Chapter 211

Gwendolyn hurriedly closed her eyes and pulled the comforter over herself, feigning sleep.

She could hear the door creak open, footsteps drawing nearer. The mattress sank beside her, and a familiar scent of sandalwood, faint but unmistakable, filled the air

It was Howard!

Her eyelashes quvored slightly as the bitterness and complexity within her fermented.

The wall lamp cast a dim glow, beneath which Howard’s austere featums were like carved slona. In raached out with warm fingers, gently tracing the comer of her eye

She was crying

In a gentle voice, Howard said, “Gwendolyn, Eknow you’m awake”

Busted, Gwendolyn slowly opened her eyes, meeting Howard’s calm, unfathomable gaze.

Her eyes swelled and were red as chemies, brimming with accusation and

“Upset?” he asked.

Gwendolyn stubbornly shook her head, replying. “Not at all. It’s late, Mr. Chadwick. You should head back and get some rest” Her tone was cold and distant, urging him to leave.

Howard gazed at her steadily, then said, “Fine, then I’ll leave.”

He was a master at reading people’s minds and saw right through her petulance.

insecure deep

heart. Stray hairs clung to her temples. As he rose to leave, her eyes filled with tears, blurring her

vision.

to explain

and moved over

over her, he asked, “Will you be able to sleep if I leave tonight?”

too afraid to ask. Voicing those words felt like surrendering to him. Affairs of the heart

can,” she said

“What’s it gonna take to get those lips to spill

hands clutched the sheets tightly, her legs

Silence fell.

lips in a passionate, wet kiss. He bit her plump, glistening lips with

in Gwendolyn’s eyes,

from her throat

the hem of her nightgown, and Gwendolyn yelled in shock and shame, “… I’ve

he whispered against her cheek.

down her face. “No,

terribly! She felt as if her abdomen was sliced by a

wiped her tears and said, “Still pretending

tears, her eyes like washed glass, clear Hamilton that

full of courage

she asked, “Mr. Chadwick,