My Four Miraculous Treasures

Chapter 177 Hot, hard muscles... the sensation traveled from her fingertips, up along her arm, and all the way down her spine.

She was touching a man. Her heart was throbbing violently, like a ping-pong ball. She felt thrilled, horrified, frightened, perplexed...

It was going to happen to her all over again... just like five years ago!

Since she couldn't fight him off, the only thing she could do was catch hold of his lip between her teeth... and bite down on it, hard.

With a sharp grunt of pain, Jasper released her, and drew back to see her bruised, swollen lips speckled with spit and foam. Her large, dark eyes shimmered with tears.

She was broken and forlorn, but she was also such a beautiful woman.

He wanted nothing more than to keep her safe forever.

Eyes wide with panicked fright, Willow scrambled backwards, trying to get away from him.

But his strong hands were on her shoulders, restraining her and keeping her from wriggling away from him. Escape was a futile notion.

After a moment more of thrashing about, Willow glared up at him and shrieked, "You let go of me, Jasper Hughes! Creeping into my room in the dead of the night, laying your hands on me without permission... don't you know this is against the law?!"

she didn't want it... Jasper reached up with one hand and touched his lip. His thumb glistened wetly with fresh blood. Well, this was just great!

quite the bitch-in the literal sense

that new hint of crimson upon his features, he now exuded

slight frown. "You seem to be mistaken," he said softly, "This is my room.

glanced at her, out of the corner of his eye. "You're the

this. Then she remembered her delusions from earlier, and finally realized

her daughter Hailey, she'd been hugging and caressing

why something had felt

and misfortunate. She reached up to remove his hands

Jasper a

to catch

see? Grandma Cindy put me in this room-but she didn't mention it was your room! I'll just

Jasper saw right through her ploy. Did she really think she'd

clutching her in his arm like a yarn doll. His gruff voice sounded from overhead: "And where do you think you're going? You've given me a hard

u're

are the rules,

sure you're well aware."

up against his body, so that she could clearly