Their Villain, The Mogul's Beloved

Chapter 18

Chapter 18

In the dark living room, the man silently watched the sleeping girl.

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After a long while, he seemed to finally make up his mind. Reaching out, he picked her up and carried her toward the bedroom.

Jostled in her sleep, the girl instinctively wrapped her arms around him like clinging vines, her soft face nuzzling against his neck like a kitten seeking affection.

The unfamiliar contact froze Alexei’s steps. The warmth of her body in his arms felt almost scalding, leaving him torn between moving forward or stepping back.

Biting back the urge to drop her, he managed to lay her down on her small bed. As he turned to leave, the girl murmured “Grandma” in her sleep–soft, tender, and full of longing.

Just as Alexei was about to exit the room, he found his hand firmly gripped, impossible to pull free. A surge of stubborn frustration rose in him, as if he were wrestling with himself.

Annoyed, he shifted the girl further inward, then lay down beside her, still holding her hand, occupying the other half of the bed.

Back in a familiar setting, the girl instinctively reached for her giant plush goose in her sleep, clinging to the warmth beside her.

With the girl nestled against him like a rose in full bloom. Alexei pinched the bridge of his nose, sighed, and finally wrapped an arm around her small frame before closing his eyes.

“Ah!” A scream shattered the quiet of the early morning.

Alexei caught the foot planted against his chest, pinning her back against him with one hand. “What? Sleep a little longer.” he murmured against her hair.

She’d slept like a baby, while he’d been up half the night.

“Why are you in my bed?” Natasha squirmed, pinned and furious, kicking at his legs.

How was this guy so strong?” she thought.

“Take a good look. You’re in my bed,” Alexei retorted without opening his eyes, playing the victim

first.

His handsome face wore a lazy, exhausted expression–utterly distracting.

“Wasn’t I in the living room?”

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middle of the night, half–asleep, and climbed

skeptical. ‘Since

from the night before by nuzzling

last night. Relax,” he

was feeling off–otherwise, she wouldn’t still be here, digging into

the line!‘ Natasha struggled but couldn’t break free, eventually collapsing

me go,” she

the level where

eyes and went

inexplicable soft spot for her,

caught her

someone who suffered from chronic insomnia—especially after just surviving

sentence, it’d be: Slept like a

frustration and confusion vanished. What he wanted

one night, he’d already decided to transplant this little rose into his own

he was just holding his own

whatsoever.

Then

she suddenly threw

was baffled. “Okay, but… has no one ever taught you to keep boundaries between men

women?”

they met, their relationship had progressed way

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the guy lying next to her in bed–she’d known him for less than five

“So what?” Alexei retorted.

choked on air, utterly

you have a wife or girlfriend?”

Single. Unmarried. No women,”

even ask if

him. “Doesn’t matter if you had

new world of crazy, Natasha quickly realized: she couldn’t fight him, couldn’t

to her? Probably hosed bloodstains off his shoes

next to Alexei, she couldn’t help

and he was five, and it wasn’t until she turned twenty that they finally confessed their

in her bed. Yet now, here was a man she

three years of dating, they were constantly arguing

were actually closer

screwed with people, making them keep crashing into each other’s lives at the wrong damn

she broke up with him, Lucas had been permanently erased from her

buddy situation. She tried to convince herself–putting up with it for a little

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