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.

determined look. “I

eyes to meet hers. The tenderness in his expression deepened

wanted to know, he would share a piece of his violent and harrowing past, even

he wouldn’t let her walk away from

a small

fixed his gaze on her, his voice steady, and each word carried a heavy weight. “I learned it by

caught in her

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continued, “As a child, life wasn’t easy for me in the Watson family. 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, acted like wild animals. In that place, I had to

a low, rough tone, each word carrying the weight of the violence and despair he had

spine. She couldn’t fathom that Henrik

group of them came to the dump, eager to feast on me. I fought back, killing those

a step back as though trying to create

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

that brutal place. Eventually, no one dared to challenge me. It was only then that I managed to escape. That’s when I realized I had been in a small, war-torn country, far from where I was taken. The pit was a training ground for warlords and killers, thousands of miles away from where I had gone missing.