Secret Admiration: Finding True Love After Prison

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A strand of hair had come loose near her temple, sticking to her flushed lips, giving her a touch of disheveled beauty.

Her eyes, still misty from the recent fever, looked innocent.

As Chandler's gaze traveled downward, he noticed her slender, pale legs beneath her skirt. Unbidden, a memory surfaced of how they had wrapped around him that night. His Adam's apple bobbed as he quickly averted his

gaze.

"Didn't you publicly confess your love for me? Said you fell for me at first sight? So why do you seem unhappy now that I've come to see you?"

Meryl smiled at Chandler and said, "I'm happy, of course I'm happy. I just didn't expect you to come."

After all, Chandler hadn't spoken to her for days. Now, not only was he speaking to her, but he had also come to the infirmary to see her.

It seemed that her persistence had finally paid off.

Chandler pressed his lips together, his deep eyes locking onto hers for a moment before he looked away again.

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such a scene today. Are you planning to bear the

froze. She hadn't expected him to see through her so

had already guessed her intentions, she felt

that even if we go public later, you wouldn't be embarrassed about me having been with

you, how you were forced to accept me. That way, no one would think it's your fault. "You can

thought Chandler was a

him to be tarnished because

if her reputation was ruined; at worst, people- would

Galaxy Holdings Group, constantly under the scrutiny

gaze lingered on

don't have to do this. No one would dare question me,

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to bear this alone just to protect my

my own woman, and need you to shield me, what kind of man

her head lightly. "It's okay. This is the simplest and

slightly before he

out a sigh of

he seemed to contemplate something. "So, everything you did today was an act. You were just pretending to 'like me."

understood. He sighed softly, a hint

at first