The Heir's Secret Bride

Chapter 44

Byron wasn't about to give Maeve any time to prepare herself.

He had always been a bit of a clean freak, and going two days without

anging clothes was already his limit.

If it weren't for his aversion to being touched by strangers, he wouldn't have asked Maeve to help at all.

"What, do I need to personally invite you?" Seeing her standing there like a statue, Byron urged her coolly. "N-No need," Maeve answered.

Maeve took a deep breath, steeling herself, and went to the bathroom to prepare a basin of warm water. "Mr. Mcdaniel, should I help you take off your shirt?"

Her voice trembled with barely concealed nervousness, but Byron acted like he didn't notice. "Go ahead."

Maeve bit her lip as she approached the bed and began unbuttoning his shirt.

One button, two buttons, three... The further she went, the more her face heated up, and her fingers started trembling slightly.

It was not like she hadn't seen his upper body before-she'd been changing his bandages every day for a while now

But unbuttoning his shirt like this felt oddly intimate, almost suggestive.

As his chiseled chest and defined abs gradually came into view, especially those perfectly sculpted eight-pack muscles, Maeve couldn't bring herself to look directly at him. starting now," she said.

"I-I'm

eyes with a hint of weariness in his expression.

Maeve bit her lip, carefully avoiding his injuries as she gently wiped his shoulders, chest, and arms.

But she kept repeating the same areas over and over. Noticing this, Byron smirked slightly and teased, "Maeve, did you eat the rest of me? Why haven't you touched my lower half yet?" By "lower half," he meant his abdomen, but to Maeve's ears, it sounded entirely indecent. "Mr. Mcdaniel!"

She angrily threw the towel onto his left hand, her face flushed a deep red. "It's already nice of me to help you at all! Can you stop saying weird things and making this awkward?" She thought, 'What on earth is he thinking?"

Byron was momentarily caught off guard by her reaction.

Realizing how she'd interpreted his words, a faint blush crept up behind his dark hair, though he remained outwardly composed.

it your own dirty mind that's making

that way-he was just

they did come across as suggestive. Unfortunately, it

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shameless rebuttal. She thought, 'How can he accuse me of having impure thoughts when he is the one making such inappropriate comments?" "Fine! If you keep talking like this, I'll

who had never been threatened

room fell silent for a

say is that you've wiped everywhere else except my abs. Are you avoiding them because you're nervous or embarrassed?" Maeve's fingers twitched, and she muttered defensively, "I

Faced with a physique straight out of a comic book, how can

scrubbing

in that annoyingly calm tone, Byron commented, "If you scrubbed my abs with this

aside. "Can't feel anything with the towel, huh? How

and

she placed both hands on his abs and rubbed them vigorously as

As

she did, they both

shocked-his abs looked rock-hard

ahead and touch

For a

neither of them

the first to snap back to reality. She quickly pulled her hands away, pretending nothing had happened, and

laughed at the absurdity

she finished wiping his back, Maeve finally exhaled

her a sideways glance, a teasing smirk tugging at his lips. "You only wash the top half when

hand shook, and the towel slipped into the water basin. You... you don't expect

cut her off coolly. "I was asking you to wring

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