Chapter 140

At that, I raised my brows and derided, “You’re overthinking this. How can I possibly be sarcastic? I’m just stating the truth.”

“You-” Huffing an angry laugh, he scooped me out of the water and threw me onto the bed.

Promptly, I grabbed the blanket to cover myself, and he sneered, “I can’t believe you actually feel embarrassed.”

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I ignored him again. Pursing my lips, I swept my gaze at the side of the bed but found no clothes. The next thing I saw was him taking off his soaked jacket.

Half of his dress shirt was wet, and the fabric was clinging to his muscular chest. The sight of him was tempting, but I pursed my lips into a thin line. “Ashton, I don’t want to do it with you.”

His hands that were unbuttoning his shirt paused for a second before he barked out a laugh. “I see you have confidence in my energy.” After glancing at me, he uttered, “Don’t worry. I’m not that absurd.”

Once he unbuttoned his shirt, he threw it aside before working on his belt. After he took off his pants and hunched over, I spotted a massive scar on his back, and I froze.

It seemed like the plane crash had been bad.

He then tossed his pants aside. When he noticed me staring at his scar, he frowned and said, “I’d do the same for anyone.”

I kept quiet as I averted my eyes and covered the blanket over my head.

Unfortunately, there was a price to pay for my idiotic actions. In the middle of the night, I started having a high fever. As my throat was dry, my hands fumbled around for a glass of water in my feverish daze, and I nearly flew off the bed.

was swift to hold me before I fell off the bed. He seemed as if he just woke, for his voice was

and my voice was hoarse. It took me ages to spit out a few words, “I am

out of bed to get me

but I

something was amiss with me, he touched my forehead to check my temperature. Realizing it was warmer than usual, he stood up and got changed. Right then, I held the edge of his shirt and mumbled, “We can’t go

injections were not good

the hospital, I’ll call Jared for a

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he came back out, he placed a wet towel on my forehead before he went to

On

daze from the fever, I did not realize when Jared came. It was only when he was speaking with Ashton, then did my

already five months pregnant, and the baby’s body is developing at this time. Something

who had a reprimanding

in the rain for half an hour,”

swings, and so many things had happened lately. She kept everything to herself, and she has no way of venting her feelings other

spin, so I could not continue

the night, I alternated between feeling cold and hot, and my sleep was

motherly instincts, I reached out to touch my stomach, relieved to

settle my

crawled up and was

touched the ground, my entire body

grabbed the bedside table. Fortunately, my knees were the ones to land on the floor, so I was fine. On the other hand, the things on the bedside table were not as fortunate as they all crashed to

I saw Ashton coming in with papers still in his hand. It seemed like he had

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