The Broken-hearted She And The Icy He

Chapter 86 Boundaries and Breaches.

Chapter 86 Boundaries and Breaches

Lily’s hand, completely out of control, clutched at James’s shirt–hard.

The fabric strained and popped. Buttons flew loose, revealing a stretch of cold, pale chest.

Worse still, her hand had trailed across that chest–softly, unmistakably.

Like a deliberate caress.

James, who had always been restrained, stoic, and upright, rarely showed emotional cracks.

But this?

First, she had touched him while he was unconscious. Now, she was taking a bath without locking the door. stumbling into his arms, and ripping open his shirt?

This crossed every line of decency and self–control.

When her hand squeezed his chest again, his face turned pitch black with fury.

Grinding his teeth, he snapped, “Lily. Get your hand off me. Stay away from me! Don’t touch me!”

Lily nearly fainted from shock.

How had things escalated like this?

She had only reached out to stop herself from falling–and somehow, she’d torn open his shirt? And then, by some cursed reflex, groped his chest?

She hadn’t meant to take advantage of him. She hadn’t meant to leave the door unlocked either.

Still, she understood why he was furious.

He didn’t like her. He hated being touched by her. He probably thought she left the door open on purpose -trying to seduce him.

And honestly, if their roles were reversed and a man had done this to her, she’d probably want to kill him

She totally got it

But before she could get a word in, his voice cut again–cold

now on, stay away

straight

did she realize that while one hand was still plastered to his chest, the

She froze in horror.

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his perspective, it probably looked

face flushed red, like a

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she regained her balance, she stumbled back, yanked a towel from the

like a frozen

her

couldn’t get it to stay shut. I heard you were working late tonight, so I thought… I thought you wouldn’t

didn’t fake a fall to throw myself into your arms. The floor was wet. I slipped.

of his now–exposed chest–sharp

fragile. One tug and it came undone. I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to offend you. I’ll be more careful. I’ve already signed the agreement. I

still looked like thunder

her apology sounded sincere. And it really didn’t feel like she did it on

wasn’t quite acting

to waste more time. With a curt grunt, he turned

behind him–hard–the cold anger

it was pain. And

that bathroom his

he became a vegetable, the Luke family’s wealth had

He pushed them away without hesitation.

Lily had fallen

eyes, his throat

only had room in his heart for Leila.

himself

For being unfaithful.

C

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