Chapter 24 What Had Gone Wrong?

The moon shone gently into the window as Eileen walked downstairs in her pajamas.

She rarely got out of bed in the middle of the night, but wanted a drink of water and saw that her flask was empty.

Eileen bumbled down the stairs blearily, and got a fright at the black figure on the couch.

“Ahh!” She woke up at once.

The person on the couch got to his feet, turning the light on..

The brightness made Eileen squint, making out who it was.

“Eric? What are you doing here? Why didn’t you go home?”

The living room smelt faintly of alcohol. It was coming from Eric.

Was he back from a night of networking again?

Also… what was he doing here, instead of going home to Vera?

Eileen and Eric had been married for eight years, but she had no idea this time what he was

up to.

Eric stumbled over to her, getting closer.

Eileen was right in front of a wall, and there was nowhere she could run.

Eric walked right up to her. He glanced at the girl in front of him, and her flushed chest.

It was a brief glance, but Eileen still caught the glint in his

eyes.

The way his breathing was rushed.

This was the kind of gaze that had the power to break Eileen.

She knew that Eric was not the kind of person to sleep around.

At least, not before what happened to Vera.

Eric had lost himself in alcohol and sex after Vera’s death, and had had a good deal of

women,

Eileen knew that with Will around now, Eric would never dare to do much to her.

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she tried to fake being

out an arm and held himself up against the wall, blocking her off

lurched, her pulse

Eric… is there anything you

by the second. His gaze seemed to bore into her, piercing through her no matter how hard she tried to

was

recked of alcohol, making Eileen squirm uncomfortably.

Eileen’s hair behind her car. “Eileen, have I done anything

“N-no…”

arms were pressed to the wall, her hands balled into fists as she

But… why does it feel like

it because of

mmm?”

he would

had seen it too, her

everything else as well…

gorgeous and breathtaking. God knows how many men she

was Vera you liked… I didn’t know any better before, but I do now. That’s why I think it’s better we keep a distance from each other,

Eric said in a firm

still terrified of him,

her head, her gaze

want to

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back at her, staring into her

his gaze felt gentle to

supposed to look at

disgusted and angry

never been like

had gone

had done

know you’ve been thinking so generously for her. What about you, then?

What did Jasper have to do with

Eric on

was he acting so strangely?

as his gaze went back to cold and cutting again. As if everything

“Nothing!”

a sigh of relief. She was about to

was grabbed by a scorching hand. “Eric… what’s the matter? What else

you

want?”

Make me some pasta.”

“Huh?”

how to cook

She might blow up the kitchen just

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