Chapter 540

Every time she tried to close her eyes, Everett would deliberately ease up his grip, then jolt her back to alertness, insisting she keep her eyes open to watch him.

Several times, Dorothy bit him hard in frustration, but he seemed impervious to pain and even chuckled in response!

With a mock glare, Dorothy huffed and got up to run a bath.

Everett was a bit of a neat freak, so she took extra care to clean the bathtub thoroughly, wiping everything down before finally turning on the taps.

Before she could finish, she suddenly felt arms envelop her from behind!

She paused for a second, then with a sigh, turned around.

“What now?”

“Help me with my shirt, will you?”

Dorothy pushed him gently. “Your hands aren’t broken.”

“But I want you to do it. With that, he stretched out his arms, and his loosely worn shirt gaped open, revealing a glimpse of his sculpted abs.

Everett’s lips curved into a sly smile, his Adam’s apple sharp and bobbing with his breath, almost as if tempting her to leave her unique mark with a bite.

this, her heart would still race, and her

stop fooling around? I’m

“No way.”

where a tiny mole resided, and spoke in a husky voice, “Where are you running off to? I’m just

buy it for a second!

full of lies, with “just one last time” being the

water’s ready, you can sit

need company? Clearly, he had other things on his

faint from the steam?”

“Doubtful, but okay.”

her hand and placed it on the buttons of

him with

visible, streaked with blood and the faint yellow of iodine, front and back, due

injury.

her hand reached out to touch. “It must hurt… Did it hurt a lot

just felt

to

meet his eyes. “I’m not lying; it didn’t hurt.”

and tears threatened to spill.

shallow well, always on the

a paper cut hurts me, and you had an entire dagger in you!”

gently wiped away her falling tears, and when they kept coming, he simply leaned in

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