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!”

them?” he

only hugged your waist and

“But you've already distracted me when you hugged

“How so?”

Xander York's mask this whole time, I was always afraid that you'd see right through me with your sharp-wittedness. That's why I've been holding myself

tormented enough by only being to look but not

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

spelled things out, but there was no doubt his words were dripping with

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

didn't you manage to control yourself pretty well in the past? I suppose you can continue tolerating it in the future!”

Samuel merely gave a

had gotten her revenge, Samuel