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.”

came to wipe off the scar on

bottle of elixir that Ethan didn’t have time to get

woke her up, she felt Ethan rubbing her face. It was why she told him to go lighter. “You were going to use that to get rid of my scar,” she replied, no longer sounding soft. She said it

nothing. That was the truth. Things would be simpler if the scar was gotten rid of, but he failed. That

six months and then she would leave. She wouldn’t step out of line, disturb him,

idea what drug Ethan used, but her master told her that only a Gregorias would know how to 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 be

don’t you?” Alice didn’t know why Ethan did this. She thought he wouldn’t be fazed by the scar, since they weren’t a

of his mind told him this question was difficult to answer. It seemed like whatever he said would be wrong. I did come to get rid of her scar, and I can’t deny that. What’s worse, I failed. Everything’s wrong at the roots. There’s no way

love, Ethan had a brilliant mind and knew he had to escape this situation. He covered Alice’s eyes and slowly closed them up.

let this slide just like that. Out of shock, Alice blinked. Ethan felt her eyelashes brushing against his hand, tickling him. The sensation traveled from

see anything, Alice didn’t forget about her question. “If you think my scar is unsightly, I can always

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