And The Daddy Is… The Infertile Guy?!

Chapter 275

Gwendolyn slept soundly on the plush futon, her long hair spilling onto her skin, just barely covering her body.

It was a tease of shadows and light

Howard’s gaze was deep, sweeping across her form.

She had been drinking, her skin flushed with a rosy tint. For some reason, he thought of a blooming crab apple tree, alluring and vibrant. He glimpsed the darkest and most persistent desires of his heart, an uncontrollable longing.

His eyes lowered as he pulled out a dusty easel from the closet, his slender fingers twirling a charcoal pencil. Smooth lines began to take shape on the paper..

His body was burning, the agitation unbearable.

His piercing gaze devoured every inch of her skin, every shade of color, every detail etched into his memory.

In the ruthless privacy of his mind, he replayed over and over the things he hadn’t carried out in reality.

The n

night grew old, and the sounds of the pencil scratching against the sketch paper ceased.

Howard draped a woolen blanket over Gwendolyn, then quietly stopped out of the studio to answer the vibrating phone. “Hello”

tirelessly to track down “Grace,” finally persuading her to hack the network and

on finding a female hacker was a testament to his possessiveness over Mrs. Chadwick.

found traces of

face darkened: “Copied

following the leads

responded

his phone chimed with a new message. He

He opened it.

chat showed a photo of her in a revealing nightgown, sheer and seductive,

you like

regarded it with cold detachment.

and her cleavage, which she tried to emphasize, all

tawdriness

with icy indifference,

Don’t use such tactics again, or you’ll face my full wrath. Also, hand

deleted her from his

residence, in the princess–themed bedroom. Selina saw Howard’s message, frantic to explain but greeted

sender is no longer in your contact

blocked