Wife by Day, Boss by Night by Thalia Quillspeak

Chapter 176

Natalie shuddered involuntarily. She hadn’t pored over every word when she signed that agreement. She’d merely skimmed through the clauses,

“Clause three is crystal clear. If you’ve had any intimate contact with another man, I’ll hurt him.” he said, his fingertips tracing gentle circles on Natalie’s back as if she were an unparalleled

treasure.

Perhaps his punishments had been too lenient, and Natalie kept making the same mistakes. So, he decided to show her what would happen when she truly pissed him off. He had a thousand ways to make her obey.

Natalie lay there, listening to his icy words behind her ear, lips pressed tightly shut, silent.

In this unequal agreement, he had merely set boundaries for her.

After Brian applied the ointment, his right hand moved forward, capturing her wrist as he leaned in close and whispered, “Natalie, I’ve told you that you must be completely mine for this year.”

his cold lips brushed against the shell of

mind, however, was clearer than

touch from you repulses me beyond measure. Even sharing a room with you suffocates me to the point I can’t breathe.”

with a distinct loathing that

later, his eyes, filled with

he let her

much,” he murmured, eyes narrowing.

accepted

“Mr. Howard, what happens between you and

him formally as Mr. Howard, which forced a

he said, a dangerous

pushed him

was already waiting outside the airport, his face

be in the country, given that she had mentioned feeling unwell three days prior and had wanted to rest at Prestige Penthouses, asking him not to disturb