The Heir's Secret Bride

Chapter 44

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.

own dirty mind that's

that way-he was just annoyed at her

they did come across as

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thought, 'How can he accuse me of having impure thoughts when he is the one making such inappropriate comments?"

who had never been threatened like this before, was

silent for

broke the silence, "What I was trying to 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 already wiped them-you just didn't notice." "I'm injured,

a comic book, how can I not feel a little flustered?' She was already doing her best to avoid certain areas, and yet

scrubbing his

annoyingly calm tone, Byron commented, "If you scrubbed my abs with this much effort, how could I not feel it?" Is

the towel, huh? How about I just use my hands and give

and

and rubbed

As

she did, they

abs looked rock-hard but felt

actually just go ahead and

For a

neither of

the first to snap back to reality. She quickly pulled her hands away, pretending nothing had happened, and picked up the towel again. "There, all good

nearly laughed at the absurdity of

wiping his back, Maeve

a sideways glance, a teasing smirk tugging at his lips.

slipped into the water basin. You... you

was asking you to wring

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