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?

unclothed and spread out over the carpet, steeped in sleep. Every single detail was

It was her!

drawing was bolder, more realistic, and more charged with emotion than the previous portrait of Selina.

art, Gwendolyn could tell that this was not the work of the same hand that had painted

the extent of Mr. Chadwick’s talent?

to stare at the drawing, waves of heat coursing through

injury, there was a small turtle doodled on the woman’s butt!

around to look at her own

turtle with a

Chadwick” was scrawled in bold letters,

remains of her dress, she wrapped the blanket

to her room for a shower and a change of

into a

in such a hurry?” Howard steadied her by the shoulders,

Gwendolyn’s face turned an

reek of booze and need to freshen

“You don’t remember, do you? What

suspecting the

she had no recollection of this

I’m sorry. I’ll take responsibility,” she said, flushed with embarrassment.

you do

of playfulness to his voice, fully aware she had misunderstood yet

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