The Darling of the Paranoid Tycoon by Cheryl Rice

Chapter 256

When Harriet woke up, she was alone in the room.

If it weren’t for the glass of water on the bedside table, she mig! have thought that Molly’s visit was just a dream.

She moved slightly, reaching to pull the blanket tighter, but somet

felt off.

Harriet gently lifted the blanket and was momentarily stunned to see that the chains on her hands and feet were gone, replaced by a sense of bewilderment quickly followed by a misting of tears in her eyes.

She knew it must have been Molly who saw the chains and argued

with Delbert to have them removed.

Just then, steady footsteps approached from outside the room. Before Harriet could pretend to be asleep again, the door was pushed open-it was Delbert.

He didn’t expect Harriet to be awake. Upon opening the door, he saw her staring blankly at him, her eyes filled with unguarded. bewilderment that quickly turned to clarity and wariness.

A twinge of pain struck his heart.

guarding herself against him?

into an awkward silence until finally, Delbert opened his mouth, “Harriet, a-are you feeling any better?”

warily, her eyes clouded with

know my

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countless times didn’t seem

to say now.

him realize his

continued treating Harriet this way, one d would grow cold and leave him without a second thought,

the outcome he

Delbert’s sincere

composure and said with a firm tone, “Delbert, do you think that just because you give in once, I should be grateful and

what

her, crouching by the bed to meet her gaze.

me, I do all this only because I’m afraid of

sneered, “Afraid? You’re afraid of losing me, so you lock me up? But have you ever thought about how

deeply, but I don’t know what else to do. I want to protect you, but I always

how scared I was that day in the warehouse wwhen I saw you hurt. I thought, what if those people took you

me? What would I