Chapter 51 Pushing Herself Despite the Exhaustion

He was waiting for her to cave in and beg him for mercy. Once completely drained, she would share everything she had been hiding from him.

But Cherise didn’t crack.

“It’s ready,” she said, dipping her hands into the bathtub to test the water temperature. She turned to him with a smile. “You can get in now.”

Damien’s frustration was mounting as he stepped into the bathtub.

Cherise lowered her head and began to scrub his body with a towel. She used a lighter. touch than before but still made no effort to plead.

The man narrowed his eyes as he watched her. The color drained from her face, but she stood her ground. “Again.”

Cherise was well aware that he was doing this to her intentionally.

“Did I do something wrong?”

Damien huffed at her. He then pointed at the bathtub and ordered, “Change the water.”

Cherise clenched her jaw. She felt like she had been drained of every ounce of energy but didn’t give up. She filled the tub with clean water, tested the temperature, and helped him. into the bathtub.

“Again.”

“Again.”

“It’s not enough.”

after endlessly going through the same process, she collapsed unconscious into the tub, exhausted.

the water, revealing her curvy, toned figure. Her dark, silky hair floated on the surface of

the water before

he barked into the

the call ended, he sat by the bed, gently wiping the water droplets off her face with

towel.

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exhaustion than open up to him about what she had been through recently.

to spend the rest of her life with him was an empty

even her friend. To her, he was her employer or someone she was grateful

by the thought. He treated her as his wife, but

he recalled the night they were at Lenoir Residence. He could

I will always be by your

voice from that night still rang in his

fingers against her soft lips and said softly, “I’ve never thought

burden.”

of me as

lips pouted, and her hands

her for a long moment before realizing that she was mimicking the gesture

she had come to him, the man’s dark and inscrutable

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