I was momentarily dumbstruck. Who was he referring to?

“What?”

Without saying anymore, he lowered his head and kissed me deeply. It was as though he wanted to swallow me alive.

He was being moody.

I noticed it when we were at the hotel. But, why?

I thought he was tired from work. But now, he didn’t seem to be tired at all.

In the bathroom’s permeating heat, his raging desire was full-on.

“Ashton!” I said, but he had already lifted me up in his arms.

He stopped his movements altogether. He stared at me with his dark eyes, and he was breathing heavily.

I was obviously bewildered.

“Are you angry?” I asked cautiously.

He looked at me with narrow eyes, but his gaze was soft and gentle as always.

“You don’t want to do it?” he asked hoarsely. His voice sounded restrained.

shook my head. “I want it. But let’s not do it

arms around me. With

arms, he headed straight to the

for me to sleep

heart ached

woken up to the sound of Ashton groaning in pain. I sat up in

on his face,

was having a

woke him up.

that it was me, he wrapped his arms tightly around me and said in a low

my

hugged me as I wiped the sweat from his forehead. I asked, “Did you have

deep, shaky breath.

pain. For the past four years,

“I won’t go anywhere

who was lonely. Ashton and I were like two puppets that had sunk to the bottom of the sea. We needed each other to endure the

my life. Sometimes I wondered if I made you up and you were just an imaginary character because I was too lonely. The villa in J City always felt empty whenever

hand in mine, interlocking our fingers together.

how to thrive in the world of business and taught me how to face my enemies. But he never taught me how to love

shook my head as tears fell from my

the past seven years, I had accepted my life the way it was. But I

didn’t love him the way I should

told him what I was in my mind and didn’t fake a miscarriage to deceive him and

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