Chapter 49

She gave Brandon a puzzled look.

Brandon was gazing back at her his eyes cool and detached.

Sophia realized he was talking about Ivan.

“I’ve got no clue,’ she said. She hadn’t gotten close to Ivan, never played the lovey-dovey couple, and had no idea if he met her expectations in a romance.

But to Brandon, her answer rang with a different tune.

“No clue” meant there was room for further observation, perhaps even a chance for development.

He thought Sophia would just say “no,” like she always did to him, straight to the point – no beating around the bush, no

gray areas.

But clearly, Ivan was different in Sophia’s eyes.

This realization only added to the tightness in Brandon’s chest.

He didn’t speak another word, just silently started the engine.

Sophia shot him a glance, feeling a bit at sea. His face was still, calm as a millpond, but the tight lines of his profile betrayed the stormy mood he was emitting.

Brandon kept mum the whole drive back to the hotel.

The car came to a standstill in the underground parking of the hotel.

Once parked, Brandon unfastened his seatbelt but didn’t make a move to get out, just sat there like a statue.

looked at

didn’t dare to disturb him and whispered,

she spoke, she unbuckled her seatbelt, turned,

suddenly a hand reached

door shut.

Sophia looked towards Brandon as he leaned in, “What,

eyes were deep and

a word. He just gave her a look, propped his palm

Sophia couldn’t say anything.

react. His other hand wrapped around her waist, pinning her against the seat. kissing

lips

was undeniable

of marriage had taught Brandon exactly how to stir Sophia’s desires, especially when she least

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stand

and her body vividly remembered all the reactions he elicited, his dominance, his tenderness, and the palpitations he caused while kissing her. Faced with Brandon’s intensifying kisses a mix of fierceness

showed no signs

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away, his hand beside her ear uncontrollably sliding into her hair, firmly cradling her neck and head, tilting it back slightly as his heavy breath

the time, Brandon kissed her gently and

was rare, as

it. Her increasingly oxygen-starved brain tumed all her resistance into

lips and tongue caressing

against hers, nose to nose, sharing a breath He looked into Sophia’s hazy eyes, his fingertips

breaths made it hard to speak. She could only take small

soft voice coaxing her gaze, “All the incompatibilities you’ve mentioned, I can try to change.

been acting

man someday. I don’t want to see you

him, repeating her question,

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