After Alice opened the door, she uttered in a soft voice, “Kingsley, you’re finally back. I was so worried about you…”

“I’m alright, Alice.” Kingsley pointed to Room 604 next door. “Did Beau go in?”

“Mhm. He did.” She nodded. “I heard him scream… He sounded tragic…”

Kingsley couldn’t help laughing when he heard that. “Why is he so quiet now? Could he have died?”

“I don’t think so.” She took a step closer to Kingsley and made a guess in a low voice. “The soundproofing in this hotel is good. It is probably because his voice has become quieter that we can’t hear him…”

Alice had already changed into creamy white silk pajamas. The light fabric clung to her body, making exquisite curves faintly discernible.

Kingsley looked at her, and he subconsciously gulped when he smelled the unique fragrance drifting off her skin.

“Don’t worry about him, Alice. Let’s… take a bath and go to sleep…”

Even though he had remained calm, or even indifferent when he was seduced by Xaria in the corridor just now, he couldn’t possibly not have any sort of physical reaction.

At the end of the day, Kingsley Nicholson was just a normal man.

It was entirely because of his vigilance and wariness against strangers that he controlled his impulses and did not fall for Xaria’s honey trap.

However, he didn’t need to have his guard up against Alice.

were too distracting

the impulses that he had suppressed from earlier on suddenly rushed up

“Kingsley…”

she noticed the subtle change

already showered. I’m going

throwing that out, she jogged back to the bed, and quickly wormed

and he turned around

almost as fast as the time he

the bathroom with a towel around his waist. Sweeping his hand through his wet hair, he murmured, “Are you really going to sleep so

she poked her head out to take

talking

standing in front of her only had a white towel on to cover the lower

muscles in plain sight for her to see, Alice could almost feel his domineering

chuckled. “What’s wrong, Alice?

She slowly sat up, her eyes watery. “The scars

his excellent muscles,

scars, burn scars,

electricity and chemical

her red lips and muttered in a choked voice, “Why

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