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

skeptical. ‘Since when did

his eyes shut, mimicking her actions from the night before by nuzzling her neck and patting her

happened last night. Relax,”

Natasha knew if her own body was feeling off–otherwise, she wouldn’t still be here, digging into the past

Natasha struggled but couldn’t break free, eventually

go,” she

where we could

eyes and went

at his own inexplicable soft spot for her, after holding her

her

who suffered from chronic insomnia—especially after just surviving an

his mood in one sentence, it’d be: Slept like a king, and

What he wanted had never slipped through his

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

Alexei’s mind, he was just

whatsoever.

you say you’d repay me yesterday? Then sleep

she suddenly threw

no one ever taught you to keep boundaries

women?”

they met, their relationship had

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

“So what?” Alexei retorted.

on air, utterly

you have a wife or girlfriend?” she

No

even ask if I have a

her waist firmly against him.

your moral compass is… special. Waking up to a whole new world of crazy, Natasha quickly

guy next to her? Probably hosed bloodstains off his

Alexei, she couldn’t help but find it

Lucas since she was three and he was five, and it wasn’t until she turned

he had never slept in her bed. Yet now, here was a man she hadn’t even known for long, casually taking up the

was, during those three years of dating, they were constantly

actually closer during

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

with him, Lucas had been permanently erased from her life. She

just a one–month cuddle buddy situation. She tried to convince herself–putting up with it for a little while wouldn’t be the end of

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