Chapter 658

"When I said I'd take responsibility for you before, you didn't say a word. Does that mean you don't want to get married?"

Hull raised an eyebrow at her, saying nothing, just watching Susanna in that silent, unreadable way of his.

Susanna forced herself to meet his gaze, but the look in his eyes was so intense, so dark, she couldn't help but swallow hard. "So... is it just my body you're after?"

The room fell completely silent.

Hull's stare, already deep and impossible to read, seemed to grow darker.

Susanna's mind spun.

Oh God, did I really just say that out loud? Well, subtlety's gone out the window... but what else am I supposed to do?

She'd spent ages agonizing over how to ask, and in the end, just blurted it out, no sugar-coating.

She cleared her throat awkwardly. "I mean, I... uh.....”

But with Hull just sitting there, silent and brooding, she completely lost her train of thought.

could think of was how badly she

Five minutes passed-still, Hull didn't

prickling down her back. She coughed.

Hull's eyes narrowed. "What?"

How many times?

sudden shift. Then again, anyone would be. She was practically

times would be enough? You

"My body?" Hull echoed.

body was on fire. She could only imagine how red her face must

stared at her,

stretched out

thing that scared

saying. anything, those eyes

away. She

what he was thinking.

the situation, and even more desperate

her mother.

it wasn't

reputation hadn't already been

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