Chapter 111


Tessa flushed in an instant. She quickly averted her gaze, stammering, "W-What are you even talking about? I would never say that..."

Stephen's lips curled into an amused smirk. "Oh? Is that so?"

"Of course! H-How could I possibly say something like that in front of so many people..." Her voice grew weaker with every word.

Damn it.

A hazy memory flickered to life in her mind. It seemed that she... probably... had said those things last night.

"I was just talking nonsense!"

The morning light filtered through the glass window, enveloping her flushed cheeks in a soft, golden glow.

Tessa bit her lip, clearly flustered. "You know I was drunk and rambling. You wouldn't seriously hold a drunk person's words against them, would you?"

Even as she said it, her voice wavered with doubt. She mumbled under her breath, "Legally speaking, intoxicated individuals have diminished capacity for judgment and control... That's called limited capacity for action..."

Stephen let out a low chuckle, his shoulders shaking slightly.

"Are you seriously giving me a lecture on law right now?"

realizing she had no real way out of this. She wriggled in an attempt to break

Did you forget how boldly you flirted with me last night? How can you think about running

wash lingered between them, one she

skin, sending her

tension between

scorching kiss. His long, slender

the couch, Tessa responded with just as

wild, and unrelenting-or the sharp bite of

her delicate earlobe, the last thread

"Tess... may I?"

voice husky and low, every syllable dripping

gaze

with words. Instead,

a kiss against

apple.

louder

both inexperienced, stumbling

into the room, the air

was about to

but from excitement and a

Stephen. She

Outside, birds sang softly.

perfect—a

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