Wife by Day, Boss by Night by Thalia Quillspeak

Chapter 216

Brian glanced up, his gaze landing on her with a soft murmur, “Awake?”

Natalie, groggy with sleep, her limbs heavy and sore, slumped in the chair and met his eyes briefly without a word.

Brian squatted before her, slipping off her shoes and tossing them aside, his fingers leisurely unbuttoning her shirt.

“What the hell are you doing?” Natalie couldn’t help but frown in irritation.

“What am I doing?” Brian chuckled, retorting, “Didn’t you say you wanted to sleep? What’s wrong with bringing you to a hotel?”

Natalie was speechless.

After conquering her battle with shyness, Natalie was sharp–tongued and quick–witted in the company of others, never losing an argument. But faced with Brian’s biting wit, she often felt outmatched.

She wasn’t as thick–skinned or quick–thinking as he was.

Natalie had intended to refuse to sign the document he’d presented, not

movie set the next day was a concern if

sigh. “Can you just let me go?”

do you think?” Brian’s

“It’s that time of the

don’t know about a woman’s monthly cycle?”

cycle was due on the 25th of the previous month, and it was currently only

of

first period

had hoped to claim she was wearing a liner

exhausted these past few days!” she protested with

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“I think with

froze, her face filled with shock as she stared wide–eyed at Brian,

told you not to mention other women’s names to my face,” Brian said, his brow furrowed with