Desires Die Hard

Chapter 159

The housekeeper had a few bottles of herbal tea ready at the coffee table when Anya stepped into the living room. “Ms. MacMillan, Mr. Welton instructed me to brew this. Please take them with you when you leave

“They’re good for you.”

The housekeeper seemed like a friendly woman but Anya couldn’t help the tension stiffening her shoulders. A crease furrowed her brow. She didn’t need herbal tea

If she wanted any, she could get them herself.

She wasn’t going to accept anything from Evan.

“Thank you,” Anya said politely. She couldn’t spill her honest thoughts to the housekeeper. It wasn’t the woman’s fact

“I have to get back to work. Please let me know if you need anything.”

The young woman nodded.

The housekeeper headed back to the dining area. She had to get breakfast ready for Evan and Anya. Anya sat down carefully on the extremely comfortable couch in the living room and waited for Evan.

He was still in his bedroom, changing into a new set of clothes.

Ten minutes later, Evan emerged from his bedroom. The young man was dressed in comfortable, casual sportswear.

It was a really casual look.

Without his usual starched white shirt and black pants, Evan didn’t seem as distant and forbidding. In his casual sportswear, he appeared almost friendly and approachable.

couldn’t stop her eyes from lingering on

he had seen

too long. After another glance, she withdrew her

and made himself comfortable on the couch. “What

in the first place. She struggled to keep her composure and finally managed to say in a voice that did not betray her fear and anxiety, “Mr. Welton, this dress will look better on someone else. I’m returning

placed the dress on the coffee

I don’t want it back.” Evan eyed the obstinate woman before

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the right to refuse

bursting into laughter. What

into a prolonged argument with the man over

had made herself perfectly clear and she was going to leave the dress behind when she

mind. What womed Anys were Evarts sharp mind and

walk right into one of his traps and end

done when he had

the man still suspected that the twins

be a challenge

talking too much. Evan didn’t speak at all. Instead, he simply studied the young woman quietly Anya

he was a ravenous wolf that might lunge at her at any moment

her eyes towards the view

the housekeeper prepared a

to his feet. “Come on,

turned away from the window and threw the man a look. Then,

having breakfast with the man because she owed him for what he had done for