She Took The House The Car And My Heart

Chapter 164

Chapter 164 Would You Like To Reconsider It

Other than Freya, no one had ever stirred any trace of desire in Kristian-not even Ashley in the past.

With that thought quietly swirling in his mind, he took out his phone and began searching the web.

But the moment he laid eyes on the responses, his expression clouded over like a sky before a storm.

"Is this some kind of wild daydream? Only feeling attracted to one person? Ridiculous!"

"Sounds like impotence to me."

"Seriously, stop justifying it. Who on earth goes through life without a hint of desire?"

"It might actually be love. Some men are naturally disinterested in physical intimacy-until they meet the one. Then it's not lust, but something deeper. Perfectly normal."

His gaze lingered a moment longer on that final comment, as if the words had struck a chord.

Alan leaned over, trying to sneak a look, but before he could make out anything, Kristian had already locked

the screen.

"If all those questions I asked earlier didn't clear things up, there's still one last test," Alan offered, his determination unwavering. He was on a mission-to pair up this brooding man with Freya.

Kristian, ever the picture of calm, sat upright like a teacher listening to a student's drunken ramblings. "And what's that?"

"When you like someone, you want to be near them," Alan explained with a rare note of sincerity, despite the alcohol clouding his head. "You crave their voice, their presence. You want to be part of their every moment, their every day. That's how you know. Of course... minus the obsessive types."

Those words found their way into Kristian's heart like pebbles dropped into still water.

He did want to be near Freya-to speak with her, to share his time. More than anything, he couldn't bear the thought of being left out of her world entirely.

The very idea of vanishing from her life filled him with a sense of quiet despair.

"So... if that's how I feel, does that mean I love her?" he asked, the question almost rhetorical.

"Obviously!" Alan declared-then promptly slumped onto Kristian's shoulder, sound asleep.

and Toby were seated far enough away to miss most of the exchange, but they'd caught enough to

leaned over to whisper, eyes full of mischief. "Do you think your boss mi-li Chapter 164 Would

were sitting close. Talking low. Too

telling of all-Kristian, known for treating personal space like sacred

off

without missing a beat, "I'm more worried

some sort of hidden cret? Could Freya's cousin possibly be into men? If that were true,

that?" Gerard asked, clearly rattled. After all, Kristian was supposed

spinning a full-blown

said quickly, realizing his earlier words might've

trying to steer things back on track. "Don't worry. My boss likes women. There's no way he's interested in

you hear yourself? You just said the opposite a

was truly out cold, called out in his

soldier

back. I'll take care of Alan and

to intervene. "There's really no need to trouble

sleeper and prefers to wake up in familiar

asleep on his

fell silent. There was no

"Do you want your secretary to take

tangled in dreams,

eyes, he pointed lazily at Kristian and

Toby froze mid-step.

Had he just... heard that right? Had

but Kristian? He was cold as stone, a man who kept the world at arm's length. Why would be willing

Alan had chosen

to reconsider?" Toby asked anxiously.

Alan mumbled again, even flapping a hand dismissively

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dropped to a tone that could chill steel. "Toby, are you still

really no need to trouble yourself," Toby stammered,

swat away