Reclaiming Her Heart

Chapter 441 Hunger

After Raymond left, Selena stood alone in the living room, dazed for a long while. It wasn't until the insistent growl of her stomach pulled her back that she touched her burning cheeks, as if scorched by fire.

Struggling for breath, she quickly patted her face in a vain attempt to cool down before splashing it with cold water in the bathroom. Only then did she open her barren refrigerator, which held nothing but spaghetti. Overwhelmed by hunger, she boiled some without further thought.

Tossing and turning in bed, she couldn't sleep. Raymond's parting words echoed in her ears.

Selena was old-fashioned, which seemed almost laughable now. Before marrying Raymond, she only dared to make secret promises with those she adored, vowing not to date until after college. Though her date never showed up.

Having spent her high school years in Ridgefield and always being sensitive to her surroundings, she never dared to date. It wasn't until a woman freed herself from such thoughts that, with every book she read, she started to realize the narrowness of her own understanding.

Shelley often said, "Life's about fate, not just relationships.

"If men can play around, why can't women?

"If women can earn big money too, why should they still be doing the chores?"

shared with her many such

up about relationships. Even knowing that Raymond was her husband, she woke up feeling ashamed of their first night together. She had always thought intimacy was meant for two people who genuinely

was not the case with

body being more honest than her mouth. The more she thought

that she was somewhat entangled in the

took a deep breath and

earlier. Afterward, he took a shower and observed the marks she had left on his back in the mirror, resembling the scratches of a kitten's claws. He arched an eyebrow; his damp hair was tousled on his

he stepped out, his phone rang

you can't even

a sense of fullness, his appetite satiated for the night,

"I'll handle it tomorrow."

doing. Just don't bring up her encounter with Selena to your grandfather. You know how those two can't stand each other. Your grandma, deeply embedded in the Montague family, probably only has a soft

in the day, when Catherine was to marry into the Montague family, it was only with Mrs. Montague's

someone else a woman from the county, not from a notable family, with little

ensuring Catherine's marriage but also creating a divide between mother and son. Consequently, Raymond's father distanced himself from home