It was as though a bomb had gone off in Angeline’s mind when she heard what Evander said.

Her heart was racing as she gulped.

At that moment, she felt as if someone had discovered the hole in her heart and filled it up. “I… don’t understand what you mean by that, Mr. Golding. What prompted you to come to that conclusion?”

His darkened eyes gradually burned with passion as he stared at the woman who was hanging her head. Then, he grabbed Angeline’s arm and pulled her into his embrace.

“Raise your head and look at me.” There was a tinge of suppressed eagerness in his cold voice.

Frightened by his tone, she slowly lifted her head and met the unfathomable gaze in his eyes. “Mr. Golding…”

“Call me Evander,” Evander said teasingly with his deep voice as though a budding flame had come to life in the darkest of nights.

In response, she blushed so hard that her ears turned red. Glancing away, she responded, “No matter what, I care for Floretta. I simply hope she’ll grow up healthy and happy with no personal feelings involved.”

“Why are you so eager to explain yourself? Are you afraid I’ll do something to you?” He continued fixing his gaze on her.

Obviously, Angeline was unable to resist his teasing. Her mind was scrambling with chaos.

She never expected someone as solemn as Evander to be so good at teasing people.

“Look at you. Are you playing hard to get? It sure does seem like it to me.” Once again, he took one step closer to her, his expression unchanging.

Panicking, she retreated backward until her leg accidentally hit a nearby cabinet. That caused her to lose her balance, and as a result, she fell backward.

She reflexively stretched out her hand and grabbed the closest thing to her to break her fall.

When Angeline saw it was Evander’s collar that she was holding, her eyes widened. In response, she let go of his collar when she collapsed.

he managed to catch her in time and covered the back of

both fell to the floor. Angeline didn’t get hurt because she

answered my question,” he said, his dark eyes filled

to let go of his

could say another word, Evander’s cold lips

The night was dark and

smell the fresh fragrance coming from the woman. The scent was as delightful as a drug, causing him

was close to her, he would find himself unable to

herself in his kiss. She was so hopelessly overwhelmed by it that she melted into his embrace,

be a lie to say she didn’t

wouldn’t be appropriate or wise for them to start dating with how things were currently going. Her desire to search for her child and seek revenge triumphed over her desire to start a romantic

undefined and unfathomable emotions was causing

of someone turning the

response to that, Angeline widened her eyes and shoved

to the bedroom was opened, and Floretta stepped out of the room while rubbing her sleepy eyes. “I want to pee,

away.” Angeline’s hoarse voice sounded somewhat awkward. Swiftly, she

Floretta stared at them curiously and inquired innocently, “Are you playing games with

his business was interrupted despite the fact that Floretta was

girl, took her hand, and brought

restroom, Evander was already

to heave a sigh of relief. However, when she thought about the scene from earlier, her face reddened like

mind was still preoccupied with the cause of her parents’ deaths. Hence, on the last day of the holidays, she thought of returning to the Sorelle residence to see

could take care of Floretta, she brought the little girl with

rang the doorbell several

get the door and stared at her with

With a deep voice, Angeline explained, “My

housekeeper’s tone abruptly

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