Secret Admiration: Finding True Love After Prison

Chapter 53 Spend the Night

"Dalton and Lydia are having an affair, and everyone thinks they've wronged me. But if I go back to the Aniston Villa with you, things will get messy. They'll spread rumors that we've been together all along to clear their names. That would be at disaster," Meryl said. 1/4

Chandler listened intently before asking, "So, what do you want to do?"

Meryl took a deep breath. "At the very least, we should wait until Lydia and Dalton are married before we go public. That way, we'll be later. No one can say anything then."

Dalton and Lydia's wedding was set for the eighth of next month. -just a month away.

By then, showing up as Chandler's wife would surely leave them both speechless. Chandler considered her plan and nodded. "That makes sense.

I'm on board."

"So, for this month, let's keep our relationship under wraps, okay? Mr. Aniston."

Chandler raised an eyebrow. "Out there, I'm Mr. Aniston, but at home... I prefer you call me 'hubby'."

Chapter 53 Spend the Night

Meryl's cheeks flushed. "Um..."

With their conversation wrapping up, a comfortable silence settled in the room.

Their eyes locked, and the atmosphere shifted, becoming charged with unspoken feelings.

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self-conscious, Meryl grabbed a random piece of clothing and dashed toward the

I'm going to take a shower. You, uh, do

that, she quickly closed the bathroom door behind

watched her go

way she

could have sworn she

mind raced with thoughts of how to spend the

married, so

voice echoed in her head, urging her to

stuff, if a woman

He's been single for 29 years with no

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years of working out. Just imagine. how

felt a rush of heat flush her face. The bathroom felt like it was getting hotter by the second. She turned on the cold water at the sink and

her

message from Anne: [Hey,

her wet fingers on her

of hesitation, she replied: [No

immediately: [Hold on, I'll

widened, and