Their Villain, The Mogul's Beloved

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Dylan muttered under his breath, ‘Seriously? Is she his wife or something, and that he just called

her over?

‘He had said she was just a business partner. But now? Damn!‘

Curling his lip, Dylan decided to pretend he hadn’t seen anything. Honestly, he was getting more and more eager to see the day Alexei’s face got slapped hard.

Meanwhile, Natasha dropped Sadie off at her place, and had barely arrived back at her apartment when Alexei’s video call came through.

Alexei was wearing a black robe, his broad chest partly exposed. His black hair was slightly mussed, like he’d just been pulled out of bed, softening some of his usual cold sharpness.

“Isn’t it the middle of the night over there?” Natasha asked, puzzled.

Alexei was studying her through the camera. Since she’d been to a bar, Natasha was wearing a red, fitted mini dress.

The dress showed off her fair collarbones and long legs–slim yet with just the right curves, her waist small enough to fit one hand.

Now, when Natasha leaned in toward the phone, her features were magnified–blond hair, porcelain skin, arched brows, and red lips, like a little temptress straight out of a dream.

Alexei thought sourly, ‘How come she never dressed like this when I was around?‘

Alexei completely forgot that back then, they were basically homebodies and wouldn’t bother dressing up at home.

Of course, with her looks, Natasha could pull off both the bare–faced kind of beauty and the glamorous kind.

Alexei’s momentary distraction passed. He said, “Sit back a little. Let me see your arm.”

In the video Dylan had sent, Alexei saw a guy swing a bottle at her from behind, and Natasha blocked it for the woman next to her. After that, she’d lowered her head and clutched her arm.

Still confused, Natasha stepped back. ‘What’s with him, going crazy in the middle of the night?

‘Asking to see a girl’s arm like that–does he not realize how creepy that sounded?‘

But then Natasha glanced down at the scratch on her upper arm and suddenly understood. Her first instinct was to check her clothes and jewelry. “Did you put a tracker on me?”

‘Otherwise, how would he know I was hurt?‘ Natasha wondered.

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tonight,” Alexei said. “Some nosy person

at the cut. “I leave for one day and you already get

blaming the person who attacked me, thanks,” Natasha replied, looking innocent. “It’s not like I wanted to run into

narrowed his eyes. ‘Letting Natasha drink

afar, Alexei flexed his fingers, resisting the urge to touch

strangely intimate in the deep of night. “How about I get payback

hide her flushed face,

is light and teasing,‘ Natasha

curved. “Just giving you a preview of what it’s like to be

reminded her. “Don’t press on it.

Natasha said. “I’ll take a shower

“I’ve already called a doctor

not necessary. It’s not serious. I can just wrap it myself. By the

to someone, then looked back at

I was still at the bar, calculating the timing so

door and found a pleasant–looking unfamiliar woman standing there.

half expected Dylan to show up instead.

inside.

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bandaged the cut on Natasha’s arm but

cream, along with neatly written instructions on sticky notes placed where Natasha could easily see

call on the whole time, watching over the

the time her father whipped her into the hospital–yet she’d never been treated with such

kind of nice. Natasha mumbled into the phone, “Alexei, you’re

you over, then

through the phone, her arm gave the slightest twitch

here for the night?” Natasha asked

was late, and it didn’t feel safe for a

the middle of the night because of her–she was