Pampered By The Ruthless Underground Boss

Chapter 387

Chapter 387:

“Are you jealous?” he teased, his hands moving steadily over her skin, each touch carrying an almost hypnotic quality that left Khloe utterly captivated.

“Of course not,” she shot back, her voice defiant even as a blush crept across her face. She avoided his gaze, nervous that he might see just how much the answer mattered to her.

Henrik exhaled, adding a bit more pressure as his fingers lightly pinched her waist, sending another involuntary shiver through her body.

“You won’t like the answer. It’s not a pleasant story,” he said after a brief pause.

Khloe, sharp as ever, immediately picked up on the weight of sadness buried in Henrik’s voice.

This was the first time he had openly let her see the darkness and pain he carried.

look. “I want to hear it. Good or bad, it’s part of

lifted his eyes to meet hers. The tenderness in his expression deepened into

his violent and harrowing past, even if it meant exposing the part

she heard it, he wouldn’t let her walk

a small nod

fixed his gaze on her, his voice steady, and each word carried a heavy weight.

shrank, her breath caught in

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My father favored me because of my mother, but it only sparked jealousy among the other family members. One time, while traveling abroad, I was kidnapped and dumped into a huge pit filled with rotting bodies and trash. Beggars scoured the filth for food there. Everyone, both adults and children,

voice dropped to a low, rough tone, each word carrying the weight of the violence and despair he

She couldn’t fathom that Henrik had faced such horrors at such a

with no intention of killing them. But one day, a group of them came to the dump, eager to feast on me. I fought back, killing those who sought my life. I used their bodies

and slowly stood up, taking a step back as though trying

the edge of his robe, her eyes locked on his. “So how did you get back? Did the Watson family find

That’s when I realized I had been in a small, war-torn country, far from where I was taken. The pit was