Chapter 24

The main light of the room was off, only the lamp by his bed was still on.

The girl on the sofa had been watching him for an hour. Andre lifted his eyes to meet her big ones. “Am I handsome?”

Mia shook her head, “Nah.”

He was indeed quite a looker, but Mia would not admit it.

“So why are you looking at me?”

Mia rested her right hand on her left, her arm on the edge of the sofa, her chin on the back of her right hand. She asked curiously, “Why don’t you go sleep in the study?”

“I have a bedroom, why would I sleep in the study?”

“But I’m in your bedroom. It’s kind of sketchy for us to be in the same room.”

“We’re legal spouses. Why are you hung up on what’s appropriate?”

Hearing this, Mia bit her lip.

they were never meant to

countered, “We had an

the agreement specify that I can’t sleep in my own

Well…it didn’t.

me you intentionally sleep in the same room with me, harboring some

I’m not interested

could she have such “daydreams”? She was just trying to kick Andre out of the room this way. If he wasn’t in the room, she could freely sleep on the sofa or on the floor. No one would know. But if he was in the room, she’d feel uncomfortable, like someone was invading

make him leave, she lay back down on the sofa, disappointed, sighing. “Oh well, I’ll keep quiet

had backfired and brought Andre

her eyes and

their childish conversation either. He returned to his usual

dim. The central air was on keeping the room at a comfortable temperature. After a few minutes, Mia could

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sleepy. For the first time, she found the sound

people enjoy listening to others reading, lying with their eyes closed, drifting off to sleep.

And then, the sound came again. Mia blushed with embarrassment. The

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