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.

voice, lan warned, “For

that, he removed his hands from

the opportunity, she hissed angrily, “Why are you

his hairstyle to the recently trending one many

him. She snapped, “Don’t you dare come in front

to ask me. Let me tell you, okay? I drove here overnight. Your mother was the one who let me in. This afternoon, she

act on his thoughts, but Erin’s hand on

you have any sense left in that pea–sized brain of yours, you better get out and sleep on the couch right now! I’m not kicking you out in the middle of the night because I don’t want my mother to ask questions, but don’t you dare use this as an opportunity to lay your hands on me. If you touch me again, I will tell my mother right this second about our

in thought, he figured he still had a chance with her

he sat on the couch, Ian removed a cigarette box from the pocket of his tux. Before he could light the cigarette he retrieved, Erin immediately said, “If you want to smoke, go

my room!”

before continuing to light his cigarette. Inhaling deeply, he replied nonchalantly, “Erin, don’t you use that with me.

deal with his attitude

from his private detective. Ever since he caught wind of Erin’s secret lover, he’d hired someone to investigate. Sure enough, they found out everything she had been hiding from him! And yet, Ian would never have guessed that Erin’s

ruler of the local business

our divorce to your mother, I will not hesitate to tell her about your secret lover, Chandler Frost! We’ll see, then,

voice a low snarl. “Ian Sloan, are you. fucking insane? Who’s fault was it at first that led us to where

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 up with Tracy. It’s you who refuses to give me the

struggled to calm the rising emotions within her. “That’s pointless now! We’re divorced anyway. You should stop mentioning the past. Let’s just go

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to marry into a wealthy family? Is that why you’re 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