Chapter 409

After what we’d done, Soren suddenly found it easy to help me shower.

I was the one who couldn’t bear to look at him, my mind replaying everything that had happened earlier.

I knew it had been too short. It couldn’t have satisfied him, could it? But he knew my wrists were hurting. It was my first time, and I still had work the next day. Thus, he went back to being Gentleman Soren.

It was only when I was drifting off to sleep, his warm breath brushing past my ear, that I heard him whisper in a low, gravelly voice, “I’ll let you off the hook this time. Wait until we’re back home. You’ll see how I make you pay me back with interest.”

My body melted into the bed.

I was still feeling shy the next morning. I barely spoke.

Meanwhile, Soren was in a great mood. Every time he looked at me, his face lit up with a doting smile.

I tried my best to appear calm, though my heart was racing.

My wrists were still swollen from the night before. They looked worse than they felt.

pair of lace cuff bracelets that perfectly concealed the swelling.

issue was the… design.

of your fashion sense, Lord Soren?”

“Pardon me?”

if this really matches your

starting to bubble up. “They look bad, don’t they? I forgot

I ducked away

up my wrists. “I’m so beautiful that everything looks good on me.” He chuckled. “Come on. If they look bad, take them off! We can’t have people questioning

my wrists!”

I added, “We should go.

cheerfully, grabbing my bag and

rushed over to check on

wrists. “They’ll be fine in

picked these out for you?”

my head toward Soren.

out a mechanical laugh. “I see. Very… avant–garde, Mr.

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