Beyond the Divorce by Third Blossom

Chapter 261 Missing You More Than Words

I wanted to kick myself as the words left my mouth I didn’t regret saying it, but a peculiar feeling had washed over me. Sure enough, Atlas smiled at me, but I noticed an unmistakable hostility

My dad spoke up. “What are you saying? Mr. Atlas had a drink, so he shouldn’t be driving!”

“Oh,” I replied, getting up. “Alright.”

When we got to the car, Atlas said, “Head to Cresswind Valley.”

My heart sank a bit. Although Cresswind Valley was closer than Fremont Bay, I wondered why he didn’t

want to go back there

As if reading my thoughts, he explained. Fremont Bay is too far I don’t feel comfortable with you driving

back alone.”

His words left me conflicted Was it because he cared about me?

Neither of us spoke during the drive, and the silence hung heavily in the air. When we reached Cresswind

Tower, he said, “Come up with me

Atlas opened the car door and walked towards the building without acknowledging my hesitation. After a pause, I parked the car and followed him into the lobby

into the elevator. I was so nervous as the elevator doors closed that I had

trouble breathing

he had booked the same room we had been in before. He went in,

with some

of the room only added to the stifling awkwardness between

directly into his eyes. Atlas

what he meant when he lowered his head and kissed my lips with biting intensity.

when I winced and let out an indelicate moan. I pushed

into

tumed into an embrace, and our passionate kiss turned

had passed when he finally

prelund nothing happened?

everything we’d been through, he

man was he?

Atlas lifted me and

we hadn’t even made it to this bedroom on my birthday night. Atlas took

as though he hadn’t seen me in a

inch, he examined and savored me. My desire washed over my sense of reason as I

he looked at me and asked, “Don’t

be carefree, just like her,

with me around, why would you worry?”

precisely because you’re here