The Ex and Her Riches novel (Gwendolyn and Maverick)

Chapter 561 Me As A Gift

“Are you trying to emasculate your future husband ahead of time, Inez?”

Huddled under the covers, Kieran stared at Inez innocently.

Words cluded Inez.

She pulled the covers over her face in utter mortification, hoping against hope that the ground would open up and swallow her whole. “Would you believe me if I told you it was an accident?”

“Yeah.” Kieran nodded solemnly. “I believe everything you say. Besides, if you had truly wanted to render me incapable of fathering a child, you wouldn’t have kicked me so lightly just now.”

He was exceedingly frank, but Inez was so embarrassed that she might combust anytime.

“Sleep earlier, then. You’ve still got to go to work tomorrow morning.”

Turning over, she gave her back to him. She closed her eyes and feigned sleep, almost hugging the edge of the bed. Her entire body was stiff, and she still felt flustered.

Kieran bore his eyes into the back of her head. As he recalled Treyton’s advice, his heart started racing wildly.

He tentatively reached out toward her to touch her fair and smooth back, planning on letting nature take its course.

However, he withdrew his hand mid–way.

Verily, he could not bring himself to do such a thing while sober, for he was too shy.

Feeling dejected, he sat up, only to inadvertently glimpse the marble dining table opposite the bed. On the table were a bottle of unopened red wine and two glasses. On top of that, there were exquisite red candles that were unlit.

He got to his feet and went over, swiftly uncorking the bottle of red wine.

Upon hearing movements, Inez slowly sat up. “What are you doing, Mr. Kieran?”

When she asked that question, Kieran had already opened the bottle of red wine. Ignoring her, he poured himself a full glass and downed it resolutely.

Undeniably, the saying that alcohol emboldened a timid person was true to a certain extent.

He picked up the empty glass at the side and brandished it at Inez. “Can you sleep, Inez? Would you like to have a drink with me?”

“No, thanks. You go ahead, Mr. Kieran.”

glasses successively. Soon, he had consumed half the bottle of

drunk too fast and possessing low alcohol tolerance, he

gone to bed with the towel wrapped around her. While it was uncomfortable, it gave her a

of security.

her chest could neither conceal

became increasingly dry at

the wine glass, he drank straight out of the

the corner of his mouth, running down his neck to stain the white bathrobe he wore. It added a sense of asceticism

kindly urged, “Red wine is intoxicating. It’s best that you don’t drink too much since

it after drinking a few more times,” Kieran

he had finished the entire bottle of red wine, he stumbled toward the bed with

woozy

from the liquid courage, he inched close to Inez and carefully hugged her arm from behind.

birthday you celebrate

the top of

continued, “Tonight, I want to give you

has a

back over her

“It’s… me.”

and planted a kiss on her soft lips. Then, he added, “I want to

a chord

and she unknowingly lost herself in his

unlit, the

in Salinsburgh, Cedrick did not sleep the entire night, secretly observing

state.

a manic episode in two days, making it evident that Joshua’s medicine

should still take her to the laboratory for an intravenous infusion

but waited silently. He planned to wait until she was sound asleep before

never had he expected her to suffer

basement until she closed her eyes to sleep. She kept thinking about everything that happened with Annie in the morning.

had transpired when she personally drove the latter to the Harris residence on

the more she found Annie suspicious, especially because her attitude toward Asher seemed different.

spoke about how I punished him with scripture studies on his knees and even gave him twenty whips, resulting in him losing his voice and contracting rheumatism, her expression showed obvious distress and indignance on his behalf. It was the first time I’d ever seen a stranger

sensed someone picking her up. At once, she opened