My Extraordinary Wife

Chapter 71

Lucas had an inkling that he was never going to get the gentle and playful Ashlyn back, ever again.

His heart ached terribly as he thought of how aloof and distant she had become.

However, he then recalled how much he had enjoyed Ashlyn’s cooking so he dragged himself up and walked over to the dining table.

When he took a sip of the chicken noodle soup, an inexplicable sense of contentment started to spread through him.

Though it was not very obvious, one could tell that he was feeling moved, based on the crack in his expression.

He had long gotten used to Ashlyn over the past few years, whether it be her cooking or her body.

He could even vividly recall the fragrance of her skincare products.

Finishing the bowl of noodle soup, he stood up to wash the dishes. To which soon after, he grabbed himself some medication for his tummy.

He then turned in for the night, only to end up tossing and turning; no sleep came to him.

His burning anxiety grew deep, along with the night.

Ashlyn had always been a light sleeper.

Hence, she was laying wide awake, the moment a dark figure opened the door to her room. She stayed perfectly still, laying turned on her side.

Though the person was moving very lightly, Ashlyn could easily tell from the sound of the familiar footsteps that it was Lucas.

the middle of the night. What’s he doing

very sure that I’d locked

operandi; there was likely

bed and gazed at the sleeping woman. She had turned on a night light, and her face was bathed

during the day, but

her. He couldn’t stop himself and pressed his lips onto the pair that he had been dreaming of for

still felt as soft and as full as he had remembered, and immediately, a

were a man who had stumbled onto an oasis in the desert. That was how

believe what was

me for so long just so

to push Lucas away, but suddenly, a familiar feeling

soon enough, it had spread throughout every

Not again!

that every time this man

what charm does this

fed enough, all these years while being

had any palpitations at all this

why she had so readily agreed to end the

naïve and had greatly underestimated the potency

the day, the curse had likely

he was in close vicinity, it had awoken

could feel every part of her body growing warmer, and it

Very, very unbearable.