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.

body were

he had suppressed from earlier on suddenly rushed up

“Kingsley…”

when she noticed the subtle change in his

showered. I’m

to the bed, and quickly wormed her way under the

breath then, and he turned around and entered

fast as the

bathroom with a towel around his waist. Sweeping his hand through his wet hair, he murmured,

words, she poked her head out

stopped talking

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

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

he chuckled. “What’s wrong, Alice?

slowly sat up, her eyes watery.

excellent muscles, but the numerous scars all over his

scars, burn scars, frostbite

electricity and

lips and muttered in a choked voice, “Why do you

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