Return of the Crowned Heiress

Chapter 351

Stephan’s warm breath brushed against Felicia’s ear, making her spine tingle. Combined with Stephan’s teasing tone, which was thick with innuendo, the atmosphere was unmistakably charged.

The storeroom was pitch–black, with the only illumination coming from the faint light seeping in from the door’s cracks. Despite the darkness, Felicia could feel Stephan’s burning gaze locked onto her.

She shrugged, feigning nonchalance. “It’s either friends or not even that. There’s no middle ground.”

Stephan chuckled, his hold around her waist tightening. He made it clear he wasn’t about to let her go.

“Funny,” he murmured, his voice dangerously low. “You weren’t talking about ‘just friends‘ when you were begging me last time.”

The suggestive edge in his tone caught Felicia off guard, her mind flashing to that night. She’d been drugged by Arnold and was barely keeping herself together until Stephan found her and got her out of the Lawson residence. Once her defenses crumbled, everything else happened as if it were inevitable.

For a split second, guilt flickered in Felicia’s heart. She had been rather cold afterward, hadn’t she? After getting what she needed, she walked away without looking back.

moment to shift the narrative. “I can make

It was as if he was

wasn’t some grand affair. Back then, it was mutual. We were consenting

words struck a

He leaned closer, his gaze piercing. It was as if he were

blunt her words sounded. She couldn’t deny the pull she felt toward him if she were honest with herself. His chiseled face, magnetic presence, and unrelenting intensity made anyone’s

trust him completely, let alone depend on him, just because her

admitted that Myra’s insults had

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gains and losses, always guarded,

to

rumors. He was a mystery, one cloaked in

in Khogend wasn’t a coincidence either. He clearly had a purpose. And she was. just a small, incidental part of his

important to deal with when