Chapter 6 Despite the throbbing pain in her leg, Elizabeth gathered her strength and said, “Put me down.”

Elijah, however, ignored her, his eyes scanning her leg wrapped in bandages.

His brow furrowed slightly.

“What happened to your leg? Is this some elaborate scheme to win me back?”

At his words, a bitter laugh escaped Elizabeth.

It seemed he saw her as simply craving attention, and when she failed to get it, she had likely fabricated a story to pull him back, dramatizing her injury just to capture his focus.

With a blank expression, she answered untruthfully, “It’s a beauty treatment that shouldn’t get wet.”

“Why did you suddenly decide to go for such a treatment?” Elijah asked, his voice casual as he carried her outside, no longer pressing the issue.

His frame was large, and through his thin shirt, she could distinctly feel the warmth of his body and the firm outline of his chest muscles.

The closeness created an awkward tension for Elizabeth, who had resolved to end things once and for all.

Her voice rose involuntarily, sharper now.

“Oh, since when have you cared about these little details, Mr.

James?”

For the first time, Elijah saw her use biting sarcasm; it struck him as oddly amusing.

he responded, “You’re my wife, it’s only

was a somber edge

you’ve never truly seen me

I died, you wouldn’t

Elijah had been absorbed, lost in moments with his first love, too preoccupied to listen to her

aback by her accusation, Elijah’s eyes widened before he let

afternoon? Maybe I’ve been too

Elizabeth froze, taken aback.

her of being

realized their marriage had always

arrangement, a

more than a transaction, yet she had foolishly

tricky world of romance, the one who fell first always found

reeling, her emotions brushed aside as trivial, a suffocating

Elizabeth demanded, jerking her

remained silent, effortlessly carrying her to the bed

the support disappeared, her heart skipping a beat as

her bathrobe slipping

at her, a sly, teasing grin playing on

you?

like a midnight lake speckled with

Elizabeth glimpsed her own

was

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