Chapter 277

The artist’s studio of the Chadwick family’s villa was messy

Gwendolyn stirred awake, groggy and nursing a throbbing headache on the plush carpet that had substituted for her bed. The aftermath of last night’s revelry hit her like a freight train–every inch of her body ached as she propped herself up on shaking arms.

Tired. Sore. All over

Rubbing her bleary eyes, she arched her back in a languid stretch, and the knitted throw blanket slipped down, revealing her bare upper body.

She blinked in confusion. Why was she undressed?

Scattered around the floor were her sundress and undergarments, alongside a few scraps of tom fabric.

She nearly screamed.

Her body was responding in ways that spelled out a night of drunken debauchery. Had she really succumbed to a night of passion with Howard after too many glasses of wine?

Her memory was a foggy vold

Then her gaze caught the canvas on the easel, and she was thunderstruck.

Cheeks flaming, her whole body flushed with warmth.

What on earth was this?

over the carpet, steeped in sleep. Every single detail was striking. from her facial features down to the more private aspects of her physique.

It was her!

more realistic, and more charged with emotion than the previous portrait of

that this was not

extent of

bit her lip as she continued to stare at the drawing, waves of heat coursing through her at the sight.

there was a small turtle doodled on

to look at her own butt

a simple sketch of a turtle with a flourish of a signature beside

Chadwick” was scrawled in bold letters,

beyond belief. Unable to don the tattered remains of her dress,

tiptoed down the hallway, eager to return to her room for a

bumped into a warm embrace.

hurry?” Howard steadied her by the shoulders,

an even deeper

special. Mr. Chadwick, I reek of booze and need to freshen

“You don’t remember, do you?

suspecting the

no recollection of this man’s conquest over

I’ll take responsibility,”

will you do

to his voice, fully aware she had misunderstood

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