Revenge is Best Served… After Reborn

"Dummy."

Sophie lifted her hand and pinched Colby's cheek, feeling a slight prickling sensation on her fingers. She frowned and asked, "Since when did you start growing a beard?"

Colby grabbed the hand Sophie was using to pinch his cheek. "Who did you think was standing guard outside the Minton estate these past few days?"

"You didn't leave at all?"

"Not for a moment."

"What about when you had to use the bathroom?"

Faced with Sophie's question, Colby made a shushing gesture. "Men have their ways."

Sophie couldn't help but chuckle at Colby's serious expression. She threw herself into his arms, feeling extremely sleepy. "Now I know why I've been sleeping so well these last few days. It's because you were keeping watch over me."

Sophie buried her head in Colby's chest, her hair soft and tickling his chest a little.

Colby's throat bobbed unconsciously, his voice a bit husky. "Given how well I've performed, shouldn't I get a reward?"

guess you deserve one." Sophie asked playfully, "But today, outside the Minton estate, there was talk

her sentence, Colby had already scooped her up and

"Colby!"

gently set her down on the couch. Looking at Sophie, who now had flushed cheeks,

"For bedtime prep?"

Colby tapped Sophie's forehead lightly, saying seriously, "Who's being more

it for bedtime

comfortable these past few dayszat the Minton estate," Colby said with

"Suffer?"

thought for

better than at a Michelin-starred restaurant, the bed larger than in a presidential suite, and she even found some amusement with

be aggrieved. "Yes, I've suffered a lot.

Colby, who frowned slightly. "I'll go give him a piece of my mind, to stand up for

already standing up, looking as

was just kidding!

"How dare Odie mistreat me? He's been pampering me with