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?!"

himself onto her, even though she didn't want it... Jasper reached up with one hand and touched

the bitch-in the literal sense of the word—what with her

expression grew cold. With that new hint of crimson upon his features,

frown. "You seem to be mistaken," he said softly, "This is my room. Here you are, in my bedroom, on my bed... what else

the corner of his eye. "You're the one

shock at hearing this. Then she remembered her delusions from earlier,

her daughter Hailey, she'd been

would explain why something

she was lost and confused, embarrassed and misfortunate. She reached up to remove his hands from her shoulders,

flashed Jasper a big,

to catch

disarm him. "Ahah... oopsie! I was having a dream, didn't know that was your leg, you see? Grandma Cindy put me in this room-but she didn't mention it was your room! I'll just remove myself now, if it's all

saw right through her ploy. Did she really think she'd get away that easily?

to him, 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

u're

Those are the rules,

sure you're well aware."

was now squashed right up against his body, so that she could clearly feel the