Love After a Steamy Affair

Chapter 395: Can’t Go Back

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While Serenity was stunned for a moment, John took the tissue from her and carefully wiped the water off her sleeves. Then, he pulled out a small part of her inner sleeve over the sleeves of her windbreaker a little so that the wet parts would not stick to her skin.

“Are you feeling better?” His clear voice was low and gentle.

She pulled her hand back, still feeling the warmth of his fingertips on the skin of her wrist. “Much better.” After a pause, she said, “Thank you, President Grant.”

The immediate distance she put between them simply from her words felt as if she had just stabbed John. He pursed his pale lips and difficultly said, “Serene, we shouldn’t be like this.”

“From the moment you decided to marry my Sis, we were already destined to end up like this.” She was unfazed.

John held her shoulders and seriously said, “But you know-”

She interrupted him, though

see the prideful stubbornness in her dark eyes. John raised his hand to cover her eyes, not wanting her to see his

hear the longing and infatuation. “I know I was the one who lost you. I can’t come back,

She could smell the faint scent

let go,” said

she had called him that in the past three years. It reminded him

them, who had once wished to stick together at all

whether she meant for him to remove his hand or to

had would only happen once in his life.

Hess for the rest of my life if that meant we could go back to how we were. Then, we would still be able to stay in Willow Town even if your grandmother was no longer around

pushed his hand away and looked into his eyes that was filled

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to her seat and Sam saw that her

her heart. “You’ve caused quite some damage today so

that she was not referring to the meal. Since she was unwilling to say it, he did not press her and instead