Ethan’s face fell and he hung up. The fact that someone else heard that side of Alice filled Ethan with the urge to hit someone.

Ethan turned his attention to Alice, who was staring at him. Her eyes were still glistening, perhaps because she was suddenly woken up. One look at her eyes was enough to fill Ethan with desire. And her voice…

Still confused from waking up, she asked, “What are you doing?”

She didn’t sound as seductive as just now, but she still sounded soft. Her grandmother came from Southriver, and Alice spent a big portion of her childhood with her grandmother, so she got some of her accent. Most of the time, she would keep it hidden, but now that she had just awoken, her accent came out naturally.

The sound of her voice made Ethan’s desire flare even more, and he looked at her plump lips. After they got married, he went straight to work, only coming back today. This was their nuptial night, so to speak, and his kissing his wife was par for the course.

He went straight for the kiss, but when he leaned over, Alice frowned. “Something smells rancid. Smells like a drug.”

finally remembering that he only came to wipe off the scar on Alice’s face,

the bottle of elixir that Ethan didn’t have time

when the phone call woke her up, she felt Ethan rubbing her face. It was why she told him to go lighter. “You were going to use that

would be simpler

frowned. She knew they only got married because of Caroline. They had signed an agreement that they would get divorced in six months and then she would leave. She wouldn’t step out of line, disturb him, or pry. We had a deal, so why did he try to find out my secrets?

remove a disguise that was put on using the Gregorias Family’s disguising technique. It couldn’t be removed by just any drug. As a member of the Gregorias Family, it was a rule that the disguising technique was never to

thought he wouldn’t be fazed by the scar, since they weren’t a

answer. It seemed like whatever he said would be wrong. I did

to escape this situation. He covered

a baby? Not even Caroline would let this slide just like that. Out of shock, Alice blinked. Ethan felt her eyelashes brushing against his hand, tickling

didn’t forget about her question. “If you think my scar is unsightly, I

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