hapter 160 Fire and Ice

Nothing that needed covering was covered.

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That blazing red tangled with a shocking white–it was like crimson plum blossoms bursting into bloom in the dead of winter, suddenly buried beneath a heavy fall of snow.

The snow pressed down the branches, bending them with its weight.

Fragrance wafted through the air. Seduction flooded every inch of the car.

“Lily, get away from me!”

James didn’t want this. Didn’t want to kiss her. Forcing himself to turn his face away, he used every ounce of willpower he had to shove her off, trembling as he did.

“Someone’s bringing the antidote. You won’t feel like this for long. Stay away from me!”

When she tried to cling to him again, he shoved her aside with a cold face and wasted no time slipping into the driver’s seat.

“Mm…”

Lily had been quite content hugging that cool, icy jade—comfortably nestled against him.

Kissing it was even better.

She was happily wrapped around her human–shaped ice stone… until the stone suddenly came alive, refused to let her hold it, and even tossed her to the ground.

And then it yelled at her?

How could she not be mad?

Unable to hug her cold jade anymore, she tried to find some other way to cool off. If not, she’d really burn alive.

Hearing her little whimpering sobs of frustration, James glanced up at the rearview mirror without thinking.

He hadn’t wanted to marry her. That was the truth.

But after spending time with her, he’d come to realize she wasn’t the shameless, irrational kind of woman he’d assumed she was.

He thought once he pushed her off, even if she was uncomfortable, she’d sit still in the back seat like a decent person.

imagined–she’d unzip

waist, pooling around her like blooming red lotus petals cradling the first

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the low light, carrying a faint fragrance, and

vision.

It swayed. It

“Lily!”

a whipcrack. His expression turned deadly. “Put your clothes back

couldn’t even understand what she was doing anymore.

lazily, and in a flash, two long, slender

fallen straight into the mortal world–using the most innocent face to commit the most maddening

darkened several shades, like someone had just

windows–he could see out, but no one could

Still, he could see.

he saw now

in the car

state, he couldn’t even crack a

blasting the air conditioning didn’t

tore his eyes away from the mirror. But even without looking, the image burned into his mind, searing him

He couldn’t escape it.

started silently reciting Bible verses

times he repeated

He was human. And his breath

the car became a

to

in the study. They’d keep their distance. Stay out of each

late. Everyone else at the

lashes cast soft shadows on her cheeks,

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She looked… calm. Innocent.

moment, James

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