Wife 4

Chapter 4

At the top of The Majestic Lounge was a room that belonged to Charles alone. He swung the door open and carried Noelle in. She was feeling so awful that she hung onto Charles like she was trying to meld into him, her limbs all over the place with nary a hint of elegance.

He managed to detach Noelle from himself with a bit of a struggle and gently placed her in the bathroom. Taking a deep breath, he dialed Ronald’s number. “I need ice, and make it quick,”

Once he ended the call, he saw Noelle trying to get out of the tub. He gently but firmly pushed her back down and turned on the cold tap. “Stay still!”

His voice was firm and grew even more intense as he noticed how the water in the tub accentuated her figure. His gaze sharpened.

Ronald was fast, arriving shortly with two buckets of ice. “Here’s the ice, sir.”

“Hold on,” Charles instructed Ronald. ‘Just set them down and leave, thanks.” His tone was

cool and detached.

eyebrow at Charles’s unusual sternness. However, he kept his thoughts

alone, Charles brought the ice buckets into the

shaking uncontrollably. Her mind was still foggy, and Charles’s expression was

in a torturous

soon.”

sore and like it had forgotten how to function. She lay still, gazing up at the stark white ceiling. As the fog in her brain slowly

color as panic flickered across her features. She flung off the covers and was relieved to find herself in pajamas, untouched. Still, that aching… where

the silence, and Noelle’s head whipped toward the door. There she saw a man clad in cool elegance and fancy threads who was obviously not your average Joe. His

creased in confusion. She did not know this man. As the

voice sounded so hin and grating that it scared her.

an answer. He

water, and handed it to her with smoomand elegant

That Sordered or uncouth, Chce the glass was empty, the eyed

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no butelie let out a reed bram. Okay Thanks for whatever you din ng the glanced down at hus chote a silent question hanging in the air, and that

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