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?!"

her, even though she didn't want it... Jasper reached up with one hand and touched his lip. His thumb glistened wetly with fresh blood. Well, this

wench was quite the bitch-in the literal sense of the

that new hint of crimson upon his features, he

said softly, "This is my room. Here you are, in my bedroom, on my bed...

glanced at her, out of the corner of his eye. "You're the one who made the first move,

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

of her daughter Hailey, she'd been hugging and

explain why something

and misfortunate. She reached up to remove his hands from her shoulders, so that she could get

flashed Jasper

hoping 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

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

him, clutching her in his arm like a yarn doll. His gruff voice sounded from overhead: "And

u're

Those are

sure you're well aware."

his body,