Love's New Bloom by Simone Hastings

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Chapter 68 Refusing To Let Go

It was 11 pm when Erin finally arrived at her hometown, Southwrok County.

At home, she exchanged a few simple greetings with her mother, Cherry, before they each went to bed. Since it was also very late, Erin was exhausted. Her stepbrother, Gavin, had already gone to bed early as he had caught the flu. Her stepfather, Grayson, on the other hand, was working in the supermarket and would not return until approximately 1 am. Erin quickly washed up and went to her room to sleep.

At around 3 am, Erin thought she felt a pair of men’s hands sneaking around her body in rather inappropriate ways. The sound of the man’s heavy breathing snaked around her neck. When his hands continued to roam the planes of her body, Erin screamed in horror.

The curtains in her room were very thick, shrouding the entire room in complete darkness. She could not see the man’s face at all. Erin continued screaming until suddenly, the man clapped his hands in front of her lips and muffled her screams.

He growled in a low voice, “Stop screaming! It’s me!”

Something clicked in her mind. It was lan.

Meanwhile, there was a knock on her door. Cherry, still in her pajamas, anxiously asked through the door. “Erin, are you alright? What happened?”

Ian’s naked upper body pressed onto hers. Loudly, he replied, “Erin’s fine! You can go back to sleep. She just woke up from a nightmare.”

“Oh, alright. If there’s nothing else, I’ll go back to sleep.” Her mother left quickly, and silence descended once again.

that her mother was leaving, Erin struggled against Ian’s hold with newfound effort. In a low voice, lan warned, “For the love of God, stop screaming. You’ll make your mom come back here again if you do.”

said that, he removed his hands from

opportunity, she hissed angrily, “Why are

illuminated his handsome and elegant features. He’d even changed his hairstyle to the recently trending one many international male models adopted. His lips curved in a smile

her eyes at him. She snapped, “Don’t you dare come in front of me now and act dumb! We

interrupted, “I know what you’re about to ask me. Let me tell you, okay? I drove here overnight. Your mother was the one who let me in. This afternoon, she called me and

he immediately lowered his head to kiss her and act on his thoughts,

I don’t want my mother to ask questions, but

expression, lan knew he had no room for negotiation. Still, furrowing his brow in thought, he figured he still had a chance with her if Erin hadn’t kicked him out yet. He didn’t want to pressure her

couch, Ian removed a cigarette box from the pocket of his tux. Before he could light the cigarette he

my room!”

replied nonchalantly,

bothered to deal with his attitude anymore. She turned her back

of Erin’s secret lover, he’d hired someone to investigate. Sure enough, they found out everything she had been hiding from

Frost, Azore’s tycoon, the ruler

of darkness. He couldn’t help but feel uneasy towards her. Suddenly, he told Erin, “If you dare speak of our divorce to your mother, I will not hesitate to tell her about your secret lover, Chandler Frost! We’ll see, then, which side she’ll be on once

Sloan, are you. fucking insane? Who’s fault was it at first that led us to where we

in a puff of smoke, “What meaning does it have for you to keep holding onto my past affair? The past is the past. I can’t turn back time, but I’d already broken

away the cloud of smoke in front of her. She struggled to calm the rising emotions within her. “That’s pointless now! We’re divorced anyway.

”

cutting ties with me now? Erin Lane, stop acting like you’re stupid. You know as well as I do that men like Chandler Frost are well out of your league. To him, you are but another