The Enticing CEO’s Chosen Bride

“It’s all because you stirred something in me. You wanted to be with me, and you demanded my love. So you can’t just toss me aside after I’ve fallen for you. You just can’t.”

He seemed to finally shatter the thick, solid walls that had confined and repressed him for the past three years, kissing her without reservation.

His long fingers threaded through her delicate ones, pressing them against the crown of her head, his heavy frame radiating a scorching heat through his shirt, searing her skin.

Her mind was a foggy mess, initially replaying his words clearly, but eventually they blurred into fragmented whispers—

“You can’t toss me aside after I’ve fallen for you.”

“No one loves you more than I do.”d2

No one loves you more than I do…

That phrase was like a curse, a stuck record in her mind, endlessly repeating.

No one loves you more than I do…

She didn’t understand; she already knew the facts.

Seth had a knack for touching her sensitive spots out of the blue, when she least expected it. Even though she was in a low mood, she would give him a great response because of her body’s instincts.

A gentle nibble on her earlobe made Cicely shudder abruptly, her strength draining away as if pulled by a magnet, leaving her limp and powerless.

She bit down on her lip, her breaths shallow and warm. She wanted to resist, but the man only held her tighter.

“Stop moving, honey. Can you be good for me… Please be good. Cicely, I want you.”

Her natural scent, as if seeping out from her smooth, pale skin, carried an innate, fatal allure.

“Are you out of your mind?” Cicely managed to speak, her voice raspy and seductively soft to her own annoyance.

“Mhm,” Seth murmured back, his voice muffled, “I want you.”

The doe was finally soothed, and the cheetah began to feast, dominating his prey.

At the moment of total possession, Cicely arched in pain. She couldn’t hold back her cry, “It hurts.”

“It’ll stop hurting soon, just a moment more.”

Seth’s voice was low, chaotic, filled with coaxing, luring her into submission, coaxing her to open herself for his convenience.

Especially when his voice grazed her ear, bewitching her, she was forever powerless against his tactics.

Cicely clenched her fists, Seth’s interlocking fingers pressing them beside her ear, his coaxing voice never ceasing. “No, let me go.”

Seth did not appreciate her refusal and turned to silence her with a kiss. What followed was his relentless claim and pursuit.

in his hands, and he manipulated every sense, satisfying his desires and contentment over and

…

to her all night long as he had once before, but in the end, his

in a daze, but still held tightly to Cicely, unwilling

more than three years, was drained by

was unsettlingly high. Even his breath on her head felt scorching. She

push him away and pulled her closer into his embrace, burying

for a long moment. Soon, his breathing by her

react this time. She got up from the bed, found a nightgown to slip on, glanced

emerged with a basin of water, placed it on the bedside table after watching

change the sheets in the middle of the night, she wouldn’t mind

Seth

several changes of water and checking on his fever, she managed to take a shower during a brief break. Seeing his furrowed brow slowly

to stay awake any longer, she slipped under the covers and drifted

*

one outside. She was surprised; she had thought he would stay out there, even though it was probably pointless, but

What a pity.

noticing her earlier action, added a comment as

had just picked up the fork, paused abruptly.

Cicely, she came down last

young servant blushed, “Last night, Mr. Diaz

thoughtfully. It shouldn’t have happened; the man had a high fever,

servant, Lana raised an eyebrow, a teasing smile on her lips.

“I… Mr. Diaz was

“Cough cough.”

thought that at most the young girl had

But this…

that he started

heard noise and came out, to her shock, she witnessed that intimate scene. Mr. Diaz was holding

for such intimate affairs between men and women. But paradoxically, when such a cool and elegant

…

adjusting to the semi-familiar room that greeted him. He paused for a few seconds, the events of the previous night creeping back into his recollection. His heart skipped a beat when he turned and saw the woman nestled in his

beautiful face lay against the crook of his arm,

down to the fine baby hairs at her hairline. Unable to

nuzzling closer into his chest

scent of her body pressing against his own, a sense of belonging that had been absent

before her eyes fluttered open.

stir, Seth slightly relaxed his grip and looked down

with another kiss, this time on

from sleep and tinged with a coolness that seemed

in a feverish state, he remembered his words. He’d be damned if he didn’t keep her right where she was – by his

hadn’t

decide now, she would surely send him away, probably never wanting to see him again,