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Her eyes immediately locked onto the Wedding Favor bag in his hand.

A deafening silence filled the room.

Geoffrey froze in place. Rage had fueled his rushed return; he hadn’t anticipated running into Maureen.

Geoffrey strode inside, pretending not to know Maureen was there, and set down the Wedding Favor bag.

Maureen frowned, “Why are you taking my things?”

She descended the stairs, peering into the bag–the box remained inside.

“Did you look?”

Maureen pressed.

Geoffrey stood frozen, “No. I can’t see.”

She didn’t buy it. He’d clearly picked it up, carried it outside–probably had someone check it for him.

“Want to know what’s inside?”

Maureen teased him deliberately.

Geoffrey’s sharp eyebrows lifted slightly, “No.”


Unfazed, Maureen sat and opened it herself.

“Your brother’s Wedding Favor is quite valuable–a gold pendant. Mind if I keep it?”

Geoffrey listened silently to her lie, unable to expose it.

No point getting jealous over childhood antics, he told himself, yet muttered through a pouty tone, “Fine.”

Maureen recognized his expression instantly–he knew exactly what the box held.

He’d snooped through her things and denied it. So she made a show of not discarding it, carrying

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back to her room right before his

in the living room, Geoffrey’s expression

downstairs, he sat stiffly on the sofa without a


deliberately ignored him, peeling an

“Want some?”

“No need.”

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saw how proud yet vulnerable he looked and didn’t bother explaining.

two steps, Geoffrey reached out and pulled

against his chest, her crimson lips brushing against his neck while her

his voice turning husky.

crimson, her

“No.”

rise, her hand grazed

swiftly capturing her

not to touch you, just hold you while we


to fall for that. “Absolutely not, let me

of love from Alex. He

midair, Maureen clutched at

doing? Put

her faint breaths ghosting his face, his throat tightening. “Don’t move, or you might

too tall; when they reached the stairs,

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was floating in

quickly averted her

back to the room, shutting the door

strides, he reached the bed, setting her

to escape, but he hooked an arm around

couldn’t fathom why she couldn’t

she prepared to sink her teeth into his hand, Geoffrey lowered his voice: “Reenie, what

hearing him murmur: “I’m

he spoke, he held

her grip, stopped trying to pry his

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