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

‘Since when did I

mimicking her actions from the night before by nuzzling her neck and patting

night.

was feeling off–otherwise, she wouldn’t

the line!‘ Natasha struggled

me go,”

even at the level where we could

shut his eyes

for her, after holding her all

her pig–like

suffered from chronic insomnia—especially after just surviving an

he had to sum up his mood in one sentence, it’d be: Slept like a king, and he

vanished. What he wanted had never slipped through his

he’d already decided to transplant this little rose

he was just holding his own property while sleeping–no

whatsoever.

say you’d repay me yesterday? Then sleep with me for

she suddenly threw

but… has no one ever taught you

women?”

their relationship had progressed way too

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

“So what?” Alexei retorted.

on

you have a wife or girlfriend?” she

Single. Unmarried. No

ask if I have

firmly against him. “Doesn’t matter

a whole new world of crazy, Natasha quickly realized: she couldn’t

murder. The guy next to her?

to Alexei, she couldn’t help but find

three and he was five, and it wasn’t until

her bed. Yet now, here was a man she hadn’t even known for long, casually taking up the

during those three years of dating, they were constantly

actually closer during

that was just how life screwed with people, making them keep crashing into each other’s lives at the wrong

the moment she broke up with him, Lucas had been permanently erased from her life. She

She tried to convince herself–putting up with it for a little while wouldn’t

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