She knew she would have to face him sooner or later, but until then, she wished to stall for time for as long as she could.

Before Tobias, she felt like a fish fresh out of the water, half-dying but struggling to live.

“I think you might have dirtied the bedsheet…”

Skylar looked puzzled.

With Tobias pointing at the sheet, she shifted her gaze and looked down at the white bedsheet that was now blotched red.

She tried to hide them with her hands, her face flushing a beet red.

 

“Does your hands come with an automatic purifying function?” Tobias teased.

Oh, how I wish I have that special power. The first thing I’ll do is to purify your damned heart!

 

“Please turn around. I’m going to change the bedsheet,” Skylar said in embarrassment, and Tobias was surprisingly cooperative.

Skylar was about to remove the bedsheet when she stood frozen by the bed.

him? I might as well present myself shabbily

that’s right. That’s

I’ll just let it be, Mr. Ford. It’s a little too troublesome. Are you sure you want to

in frustration. He looked back and saw that Skylar had hopped back into

on that side,” he

man lying beside her and an extra weight

five in the morning. The sky wasn’t fully lit, although a beam of

she turned around and looked

asleep and half-naked, his strong muscles outlining his perfect

surely had the charm of a mature man that no

awoken, he was a totally different person – a

given his look and wealth, why did he choose me? Or should I say I am only one of his many women who he had chosen to

of bed, wanting to find something to eat downstairs when she suddenly remembered that they

so used to sleeping alone and hogging the blanket to herself that everything felt odd that night. Occasionally, she would even use the blanket like a bolster as it

cover himself at all throughout the night, and his half-naked

had wanted to tuck him in, but on second thought, she mumbled, “Forget it, it’s not like you’re shivering,

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