My Four Miraculous Treasures

Chapter 95

Jasper's throat tightened. He caught ahold of her wrist, and pulled her against himself. His breath was hot and heavy upon her ear: "Throwing yourself onto me, by accident? What a classic routine." Hot air blasted against her skin, and a violent shiver ran all the way through her body.

Sensing the danger in her situation, she stammered, "Mr. Hughes, it's not what you think..."

"You came right up to my desk while I was seated here. You knew exactly what you were doing," Jasper murmured in that deep, commanding voice of his. With powerful fingers, he seized a firm grip of her waist. Willow flushed hard, turning red all the way to her ears. "Mr. Hughes... we can't do this..."

"But what do you mean? What do you think we're doing?" Jasper's voice played havoc on her nerves.

His lips clamped gently upon one of her ears.

Alarm bells sounded all throughout Willow's mind. She wrenched her hand free of his grip, and turned to flee... but one strong arm held her securely in place, so that she couldn't even rise from his lap.

With one finger from his other hand, he lifted up her chin, and leaned in for a kiss...

Someone knocked twice on the door, and then Edith burst into the room without waiting for an answer. "Mr. Hughes, I left my handphone behind..."

broke free of Jasper, and backed away

just calmly rolling up his sleeves, as cool and dangerous

rush, and made to escape the room... but Edith had already walked over to pick up her phone from the floor. It must have been a stray touch that caused it to be playing that video again, taken from inside the lift earlier. At the moment, Tamara's voice was saying, "Oh, gosh!

the door, Willow

Edith to have

it meant that Jasper had watched the video too, and found out about the rumors! Seeing Willow's reaction, Edith stopped the playback,

the secretary left the

walked past Willow, Edith gave her a look cold enough to freeze her

only just rejected her, the day before. If she

aide, so that she could be this close to him every day...

other much less often... and before long, they'd become strangers once more. Would she

job was everything

lose this position, no matter

she needed to

act like she hadn't

quietly, ar