Chapter 207

Chapter 207

Alexei woke to find someone in his arms.

He subconsciously reached out and gripped the person’s neck.

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However, in the next moment, as he prepared to twist and break it forcefully, he suddenly realized that both he and the other person beneath the covers were

naked.

The woman lay with her back to him. Across her beautiful shoulder blades, partially hidden by thick black hair, were numerous deep and shallow marks, hinting at the intense devotion and obsession of the person who had left them.

His pupils constricted sharply.

He had just escaped an assassination attempt last night and returned to his room. He could not understand how he ended up in an entirely unfamiliar place, with a woman next to him he would never touch.

He looked down at his hands.

Those hands were long, strong, with well–defined knuckles, but they were not the hands of an eighteen–year–old boy.

Even the indentation of a wedding ring, worn for a long time on his left ring finger, indicated that this body belonged to a mature man.

Alexei was agitated.

Just then, the sleeping woman showed signs of waking,

Feeling the large hand on her neck, she groggily removed it, muttering, “No more.” Her soft, pleasant voice carried a slight hoarseness from overuse.

Alexei’s hand was seized, and his body suddenly stiffened.

Reason told him that no matter the conspiracy, eliminating all potential threats was the correct course. Yet the faint scent of roses reaching his nose rendered him incapable of action.

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The woman turned over and nestled directly into his embrace.

She murmured, “Alexei, why are you awake so early?”

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As she shifted, her smooth leg accidentally brushed against him. This triggered an unmistakable physiological reaction, like a great ship poised to set sail on calm

waters.

Alexei’s expression darkened.

baffling woman, this body utterly devoid of

while unconscious, I would never

woman close to me.

set me up? Is this

his waist, pressing a kiss onto the red spot on his chest, and whining with closed

the woman pressed even

again brushed against her

urgent, continuous knocking

came from a surprisingly low position on

there a dwarf in this

Alexei thought as he heard the

paws.

the

to his world, completely foreign

drowsy, suddenly opened her eyes, shoved the dazed Alexei aside, and frantically searched for clothes on

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didn’t you get me dressed? What if the

she angrily

clothes. Any clothing she did

kicked Alexei again, whose expression shifted between frustration and resignation, and pouted, “Go find me some clothes.”

him not move, she

glanced at his very obvious anatomy, blushed, and looked away, then called out

whole morning was

a deep, silent look

the far side of the bed. It was of him and this woman–or rather, an older

unbelievable, and he

that, he

the mirror. His features had matured; some of the harsh coldness of his eighteen–year–old self had

faint suspicion deep down, and he thought, ‘Perhaps I

to his future self?

future actually like

Natasha glanced at him repeatedly,

behavior.

would have risen quickly, even letting her get dressed

She secretly observed him.

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he opened the door and a small soft mass

he later thought, ‘What had

me?‘

The little girl, no more than three or four years old, repeated

are

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