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

that he had suppressed from earlier on suddenly

“Kingsley…”

face gradually flushed red when she noticed

already showered. I’m going to

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

around and entered the bathroom to take a short

was almost as fast as the time he did his training in military

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

poked her head

stopped talking

of her only had a white towel on to cover the lower part

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

at his abdominal muscles before he chuckled. “What’s wrong, Alice? Are you captivated

eyes watery.

muscles, but the numerous scars all over his

scars, gunshot scars,

even electricity and

covered her red lips and muttered in a choked voice, “Why do you have

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