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.

his hands, and he manipulated every sense,

…

her whole, and for a moment, Cicely thought he might cling to her all night long as he had once before, but in the end,

a daze, but still held tightly

than three years, was drained by this tossing and turning

was unsettlingly high. Even his breath on her head felt scorching. She lay quietly for a while, then finally reached out and grasped his

her intent to push him away and pulled her closer into his

her eyes, remaining still for a long moment. Soon, his breathing by her ear became more

bed, found a nightgown to slip

it on the bedside table after watching Seth for a moment, and then took a long time

the sheets in the middle of the night, she wouldn’t mind dousing him with the

it out, and began to wipe Seth down, her face taut with

and checking on his fever, she managed to take a shower during

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

*

she had thought he would stay out there, even though it was probably pointless, but waiting

What a pity.

earlier action, added a comment as breakfast was served.

which had just picked up the fork, paused abruptly. She

came

servant blushed, “Last night, Mr. Diaz

chewed thoughtfully. It shouldn’t have happened; the man had a high fever, and he could barely stand. Even if he could carry Cicely upstairs,

at the blushing servant, Lana raised an eyebrow, a teasing smile on her

off guard by the question, the servant’s face turned even redder. “I… Mr.

“Cough cough.”

girl had imagined a steamy romance after seeing Seth carry

But this…

he started

noise and came out, to her shock, she witnessed that intimate scene. Mr.

aloof, seemingly unsuited for such intimate affairs between men and women.

…

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

against the crook of his arm, her eyebrows soft and feathery,

to the fine baby hairs at her hairline. Unable to resist, he bent down and planted

closer

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

embrace made Cicely furrow her brow, her consciousness slowly stirring before her eyes fluttered open. She moved

and looked down at

his gaze, and he responded with another kiss, this time on the tip

tinged with a coolness that seemed to

a feverish state, he remembered his words. He’d be damned if he didn’t keep her right

night hadn’t

never wanting to see him again, possibly even destroying the fragile truce they had managed to forge in recent