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.

had intended to refuse to sign the document he’d presented, not to get herself into this

alive to show up on the movie set the next day was a concern if she

couldn’t help but sigh. “Can you just let me

you think?” Brian’s eyes crinkled with challenge.

paused, pouting. “It’s that time

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

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

of this

Brian had bought her necessities when she had her first period at fifteen.

hoped to claim she was wearing a liner to trick him into thinking her period had

past few days!” she protested

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a few seconds, she remembered Madelyn’s message and began, “I think with your spare

froze, her face filled with shock as she

names to my face,”