The Ex and Her Riches novel (Gwendolyn and Maverick)

Chapter 286

Chapter 286 The Shameless Nico

Gwendolyn closed her eyes and lovingly kissed Cedrick’s palm.

Her quiet concentration moved Cedrick, who could only stare at her in a daze.

When she finally lifted her lips from his palm, she asked, “Docs it still hurt?”

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Cedrick almost answered in the negative when he remembered the painful price he had paid for giving the same answer last time.

He swallowed the words on the tip of his tongue and eked out, “It still hurts…”

Approval danced in Gwendolyn’s gaze, and she commented brightly, “Good to see you’ve learned your lesson. That beating did not go to waste.”

She followed it up with more kisses on his palm before standing up. After returning the ruler to its rightful place, she grabbed a tube of anti–inflammatory cream from the same drawer.

Then, she carefully applied the ointment to his palm and knees. From time to time, she blew on the areas to soothe the sting of the ointment.

“Next time, just let me know if you have something on your mind. If you had told me earlier that you hated how bitter the medicine tasted, we could’ve peacefully discussed another solution together. None of this would’ve happened then, don’t you agree?”

Cedrick nodded and shot her a tender gaze. His heart was bursting with joy.

With her around, even every argument left a sweet taste in his mouth.

He was still relishing the loveliness of their banter when Gwendolyn’s next words ruined his mood.

She said, “Actually, I planned to let you off the hook tonight. I only wanted to help you back to the room and apply some ointment to your knees. Who knew you were so into playing the part of a clueless victim! You practically begged for your punishment today.”

Cedrick’s back stiffened. He stared at his left palm in disbelief.

Is she telling me that my acting brought this beating upon myself?

He had never felt more depressed than he did at that moment.

My palm hurts even more now!

Cedrick weakly burrowed into Gwendolyn’s embrace, his expression a mask of sorrow and dejection.. “Don’t go tonight, Gwenny. Sleep with me, okay?”

face and coaxing, “I can’t. We can

“But…”

almost winter, and judging by the state of his body, Cedrick was already

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he stopped himself from protesting Gwendolyn’s decision and watched

had no opportunity to apologize to Cedrick,

day three.

knocked on the door

deep

deep breath and carefully opened the door and the amber, beaded curtains behind it.

in the middle of typing and shot Nico

an awkward smile on his face and asked, “Boss, two nights

on the hand! No big deal!” Cedrick returned darkly, mercilessly pushing the

could almost feel his palm throbbing in pain as

wail and plead for mercy, Cedrick continued, “I recently heard of a small country in Alendor called Bera which is in dire need of coal miners.

“Huh?”

don’t want to mine coal in Bera! I’ll never leave

short, he was a perfect

Not this again.

disgusted by Nico’s bawling act and tried to free himself from the latter’s

don’t you just kill me now? Dying by your hand would

and refused to let go. He looked like a leech

annoyance was written all over his face. He did not know whether to rage or laugh at Nico’s

end up at a coal mine in Bera, stay out of my

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“Yes! I’ll scram now!”

and almost tripped several

Surprisingly, most of his

computer screen before him, but before he could type a word, something

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