Trouble in Paradise by Three Way

Chapter 0112

Plenty of luxury cars zoomed down the bustling streets below my high-end

apartment complex. I scanned the streets, trying to search for Nicholas's car, but it was nowhere to be seen.

I should've been unbothered, but a voice inside me still pierced through my facade.

"You still care about him, Arianal!"

My heart ached. Lowering my gaze, I crouched down and wrapped my arms around myself.

I wasn't as fearless as I tried to appear. Every day spent with Nicholas was an unprecedented memory that would be ingrained in my mind forever.

This feeling of easily obtaining something I despised brought terror upon me instead of joy. Once the truth was unveiled, I'd lose everything. I didn't know how I would feel then.

As I became lost in my thoughts, my nails sank deep into my palms. I suddenly snapped back to my senses, and a voice in my mind whispered, "Perhaps I'll be hurt

100."

Just then, a shadow loomed over me. In the next instant, a pair of exquisite leather

shoes came into view.

underneath my arms. Lifting me off the ground, he smiled and said, "What's with your eyesight, huh? You couldn't find me, so you're crying alone here?" Crying? Did he think I was Claudia? I looked down, my lashes obscuring the look in my eyes. If he assumed that I had

"I didn't see you. I was tired, so I crouched down to rest

stroked my hair gently and asked, "Where

"The law firm."

yourself. I can support

woman wild with his chivalrous words,

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tiptoes and pecked his chin. "Thanks, honey. I just wanted to keep myself busy, or

his lips together, Nicholas brushed his fingers over my lips. For the first time ever,

me to his car, I was

had switched to a

low profile and disliked crowds. He preferred not to use a driver for his personal schedule, and he usually drove a high-end, yet modest-looking, MPV. 2 Unless the occasion he had to attend included VIPs, he wouldn't

me into the car. Inside the car was at completely enclosed space, and the driver couldn't hear anything between us once the

stared at me hungrily, I stopped his advancing ministrations and said,

lap. Seeing that I didn't move, he added, "Come here now, or I'll spread

my position, I asked, "You went through the trouble of coming all the

I think about? I've gone a day without seeing you.

if this was the power of

arms around his neck, it was no longer just a chaste hug between us. He suddenly dove for

He was rough, without so much as a hint of gentleness, so I instinctively