Chapter 357 Deep-Seated Trauma

Anastasia wanted to cry out in exasperation, for she should have known better than to trust this man.

“Elliot, I swear, if you think you can—”

However, before she could say the words ‘get away with it’, Elliot inched forward and kissed her.

He intended to get away with this, and it looked like he was succeeding. After all, he couldn’t help himself when it came to Anastasia; it was as if she was his fatal attraction, her presence probing and enticing him like a siren’s call.

Anastasia struggled against him for a few seconds, but it was all for show since she knew there was no escaping the man on top of her. In the end, she succumbed to his kisses, the hunger in her awakening with the way he nibbled and tugged on her lips.

However, there was a voice in the back of her head, albeit a muffled one, that nagged at her and made her keep her guard up. She wasn’t so much worried about someone walking in on them as she was about losing herself to Elliot and his deadly charisma.

She still wasn’t ready to bring their intimacy to the next level, and while the kiss was sweet and lingering, she couldn’t help sensing the danger in it as well. The air that crackled around them as their tension built reminded her of a brewing storm, and any time now, a hurricane would hit them and wreak havoc.

However, with the direction this very intimate kiss was taking, she wasn’t sure how she could keep the floodgates closed any longer, not when the water was already bursting to come through.

of reason in her mind was being constantly drowned out by her own desire, and for a moment, it was

the verge of surrendering to

whispered huskily,

and she shuddered

second, however, he picked her up from the couch without

blank. The dimness of the bedroom became something like a dark space for Elliot to act on his heightened senses. He wanted nothing

mixed feelings she couldn’t quite decipher. When she tried to push Elliot away, he clasped her wrists and pinned her

touch me…

was as if her mind did not perceive the man kissing her to be Elliot, but that sc*mbag from five years ago. His

wrong?” Upon sensing that something was off with

to get away from him as she cried, “Go away! Don’t

source of her fear. Bewildered, he quickly got off the bed, strode

curled into a ball on the bed with her eyes tightly closed while her body trembled with insurmountable fear and hurt, he felt his heart drop to his stomach. He

suddenly remembered the horrific ordeal she had been through. Whatever they had been doing just now—or rather, whatever he had been doing to her—had clearly brought her deep-seated trauma to

Elliot murmured as he perched on the edge of the bed, keeping a safe distance as

was only then that she opened her misty eyes, and she suddenly became aware of how she had overreacted. She flipped onto her side, looking flustered as she mumbled, “I’m sorry for scaring

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