Chapter 1005:

Don’t you like me?” Pierre pressed, his voice deep and cutting. Gemma was taken aback, her cheeks burning as she stammered, “I… Who says I like you!”

Suddenly, Pierre leaned closer, his unexpected movement catching Gemma off guard.

Gemma froze, her eyes wide and her breath catching in her throat. But she didn’t pull away.

Seeing her like that stirred something deep inside Pierre, and in a fleeting moment of villainy, he reached out to turn off the

out the light.

her fingers instinctively clutching his shirt as if it were the last piece of driftwood in a

closed around her without hesitation, holding her tightly yet

Just as she parted her lips to ask what was happening, his mouth captured hers, silencing her unspoken questions with

She had hardly

was waiting to see how she would react. At first Gemma was frozen, too stunned to react. But when she felt his tongue

surged through Gemma, but the soft sounds that escaped her mouth were uncertain, caught somewhere between reluctant

by the growing need to hold her close, to feel that connection. She tried to pull away,

leaned against him, her head resting in the crook of his arm. Fighting

ear, her body still trembling slightly. Her breath was warm and ragged, her chest rising and falling against him in a rhythm that made his pulse quicken. The faint sobbing undertone to her breathing only drew him deeper into a daze, the conflicting

he pulled her closer. He had not intended for things to go this far. At first he’d just wanted to tease her. But the situation had clearly gotten

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