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.

manipulated every sense, satisfying his

…

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

the morning, he was already in a daze, but still

than three years, was drained by

her head felt scorching. She lay quietly for a while, then finally reached out and grasped his arm wrapped around her

into his embrace, burying his face in the crook of her neck, his lips grazing

remaining still for a long moment. Soon,

bed, found a nightgown to slip on, glanced at the unresponsive man on the bed, pursed her lips, and walked into

after watching Seth for a moment, and then took a

change the sheets in the middle of the night,

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

she managed to take a shower during a brief break. Seeing his furrowed brow slowly relax, she

slipped under the covers and drifted

*

door, there was no one outside. She was surprised; she had thought he would stay out there, even though it was probably pointless,

What a pity.

earlier action, added

the fork, paused abruptly. She looked

came down last

young servant blushed, “Last night,

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

Lana raised an eyebrow, a teasing smile

question, the servant’s face turned even redder. “I… Mr. Diaz was kissing Miss Cicely in the

“Cough cough.”

the young girl had imagined a steamy romance after seeing

But this…

impatient that he started right

came out, to her shock, she witnessed that intimate scene. Mr. Diaz was holding Miss Cicely,

like everyone else’s image of him, was noble and aloof, seemingly unsuited for such intimate affairs between men and women. But paradoxically, when such

…

eyes slowly 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

his arm, her eyebrows

the fine baby hairs at her hairline. Unable

stirred, nuzzling closer into his

his own, a sense of belonging that had been absent for far too long. He tightened his hold around

her consciousness slowly stirring before her eyes fluttered open. She moved slightly, trying

her stir, Seth slightly relaxed his grip and looked down at her, his voice low and husky. “You are

with another kiss, this time on the tip of her

sleep and tinged with a coolness that

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

night hadn’t

would surely send him away, probably never wanting to see