Chapter 542 The Price of Innocence

So… where exactly had this confidence come from?

“You sure?”

The man’s tone deepened.

Even with the door in between them, his voice carried a pressure that was hard to ignore.

The weight of it snapped Tessa out of her daze, like her drifting soul had suddenly returned to her body.

“I…”

The fear crept back into her voice.

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Victor raised a brow. He clearly noticed something was off. “Open the door. Let me see you.”

“I just want to be alone for a bit.”

Ugh…

She really did just want some quiet right now.

That one sentence made it even clearer to Victor that something wasn’t right with her.

“Open the door.”

This time, his tone was unmistakably firm.

Tessa instinctively rubbed her hands together. Her mind flashed with the image of him climbing in through the balcony.

Yeah, right–no way this door could actually keep him out.

After a few seconds of thought, she finally gave up and opened the door. The first thing she saw was the man’s solid chest.

His shirt was stained with blood…

reached out. “You’re

motion, she suddenly remembered something and

did his injury have to do with her? Stella had been crystal

wasn’t trained

care of people–yeah, definitely not

Her instinct,

of his mouth lifted in a

Her mouth twitched hard.

thinking anything like that. I swear to god,

Tha

conlained the

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she explained, the more flustered

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he actually think she’d done all that on purpose? That was such a huge

“No?”

His smile deepened.

look up at him–her head was

her face flush red all over

really didn’t mean

Ugh-

Just like Stella had said, she had

already crumbling. Why

was like her body went haywire

small shoulders slump, Victor reached out

tried to resist, but she couldn’t match his

moment he tilted her face up, he got a clear look at just

higher. “You ruined my innocence. What

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word-“innocence“-he said it so deliberately, so clearly emphasized, it was hard

face, already tomato–red, turned positively

really didn’t do it

those deep, dark eyes of his, she could barely form

sentence.

didn’t respond–just smiled

made

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