The Promise of Happiness novel Atalie and Samuel

Chapter 1003

“Are you really dumb, or are you just playing dumb?” Samuel probed, his voice even hoarser than before.

“I'm not playing dumb!” Natalie snapped back. I genuinely want to be physically close to him. I'm not putting on an act, nor do I have ulterior motives!

Samuel pursed his lips as he turned on the tap and washed off the soap on his hands.

After that, he spun around and met Natalie's gaze, his eyes roaming over her pretty face. “Since you don't get it, I'll have to teach you till you do.”

“What?” Natalie blurted out, a curious twinkle in her eye.

Alas, instead of getting an answer, she felt Samuel grabbing her hips and lifting her onto the marble countertop effortlessly, making her seem even taller than him.

With them staring eye to eye and him positioned between her legs, it was hard not to feel a stir of desires from the intimacy.

Realizing what Samuel was up to, Natalie's cheeks flushed as she gently pushed against his chest. “Samuel, you still have dishes to wash!”

washing them?” he whispered, still staring into her clear bright

Natalie explained. “I only hugged your waist and not your arms. Don't you pin the blame

distracted me when you hugged

“How so?”

without thinking. “Even though I've been hiding behind Xander York's mask this whole time, I was always afraid that you'd see

by

caution to the wind and had my way with you,” he added, a shining tenderness in his eyes. “I finally let go of my shackles once

out, but there was

her like a fiddle in the past, to the point where she almost thought she had had a change of heart. With that, a fresh swell of

yourself pretty well in the past? I suppose you can continue tolerating it in the

merely gave a

she had gotten her