Chapter 487 The Stranger in the Dark

Chapter 487 The Stranger in the Dark

The filthy men’s voices drew closer, making Adeline’s heart hammer against her ribs.

Then–footsteps faded.

They must have gone to another floor.

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She stayed pressed against the door, gasping for breath, too afraid to risk going out and running into them. again. Relief was just beginning to seep into her bones when a shadow lunged from the bed like a predator, knocking her flat against the door.

The room was pitch–black. The curtains were drawn tight, blocking even the neon glow outside.

She couldn’t see his face, only that he was tall–nearly 6’3“. His body radiated heat, his breath hot against her skin. Just like her, he was burning up.

“You.. let me go first…”

Her voice shook. Being pinned down by a stranger in the dark was terrifying.

And the strange heat rising inside her made her panic more. Their bodies pressed close, and she could feel the man trembling. Suppressed, restrained tremors.

He was drugged too. Struggling to fight it.

to lose control–but instead,

a sharp breath of relief. Still, her heart

her couldn’t be cured at a

own. They always said she was their family’s good–luck star, that because fate gave her a little

said their family would be together

could her parents and little sister ever

She wanted to live.

man in the room was

been ambushed that evening at a class reunion by a desperate woman who wanted to marry rich. She had slipped him a vicious drug and tried to

like that, he had fled to a hotel instead of going home. In his haze, he hadn’t even shut the door properly. That mistake led Adeline to stumble into his

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been interested in women. He’d never planned to marry, never planned for children. The last thing he would ever do was touch a

stepped back now, putting distance between them,

after two steps, he

She smelled… different.

tried to trap him earlier.

of her just now, her body had been soft. Too soft. Like a dream pulling him

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