Their Villain, The Mogul's Beloved

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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up in the middle of the night, half–asleep, and climbed in

skeptical. ‘Since when did I

harder, Alexei kept his eyes shut, mimicking her actions from the night before by nuzzling her neck and patting her waist, signaling her to settle

happened last night. Relax,” he

own body was feeling off–otherwise, she wouldn’t still be here, digging into the past with

crossing the line!‘ Natasha struggled but

me go,” she

even at the level where

his eyes and went

him being annoyed at his own inexplicable soft spot for her, after holding her all night, he experienced the most peaceful

totally caught her pig–like

chronic insomnia—especially after just surviving an assassination attempt while still injured–this

one sentence, it’d be: Slept

frustration and confusion vanished. What he wanted had never slipped through his

just one night, he’d already decided to transplant

just

whatsoever.

me yesterday? Then sleep with me for

suddenly threw at him, he

has no one ever taught

women?”

their relationship

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her in bed–she’d

“So what?” Alexei retorted.

on air, utterly

have a wife or girlfriend?” she asked

No women,”

you didn’t even ask if I have a

her closer, pressing her waist firmly against him. “Doesn’t matter

new world of crazy, Natasha quickly realized: she couldn’t fight him, couldn’t out–sass him–so

next to her? Probably

to Alexei, she couldn’t

it wasn’t until she turned twenty that they finally confessed

her bed. Yet now, here was a man she hadn’t

during those three years of dating,

they were actually closer during their

how life screwed with people, making them

erased from her life. She didn’t feel the slightest bit guilty about

herself–putting up with it for a little