Chapter 10
Early morning, a cool sensation touched his chest–light, teasing losses
Still half–asleep, Grayson instinctively embraced the person beside him, capturing her fingertips with affectionate drowsiness: “Rory, stop teasing-
As soon as he spoke, his body suddenly froze.[]
That hand…]
Aurora had worked as a caretaker since childhood, enduring considerable hardship. Her hands always maintained a thin layer of calluses. Despite his later endless pampering, even specially developed hand creams, those calluses remained like time’s imprint, impossible to erase
During many intimate nights, he had gently traced her fingers, his heart aching with sympathy.
But now, the skin beneath his touch was excessively smooth and delicate.
His His mind exploded with sudden clarity as countless scenes rushed back. He bolted upright in bed
The room was in disarray–men’s and women’s clothing scattered across the floor. On the rumpled bed with its suggestive traces, a completely naked Evelyn bashfully clutched the sheet.
“You’re awake? So early. Come back to bed.”
In that moment. Grayson’s face paled: “We what happened?”
“What do you mean, what happened?” Evelyn pouted childishly. “You should ask yourself. You pinned me against the door the moment we desperate you left marks all over me. My body aches terribly now.”
Though complaining, her words were filled with the sweetness of a fulfilled wish.]
Grayson realized what had occurred and closed his eyes in frustration: “You drugged me last night?“||
He phrased it as a question, but his heart already knew the answer.
Last night, Evelyn had added something to his cocktail, which explained his reaction…
This wasn’t the first time Evelyn had done this
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She had pursued him for ten full years. In high school, she wrote her first love letter to him. After college graduation, she bought an island abroad to publicly declare her love. That night, she had someone drug him and brought him to her bedroom…]
But he had been so enraged that he smashed a glass and cut his wrist, forcing himself to stay conscious before going to the hospital to have his stomach pumped.]]
Back then, he had nothing but contempt for this relentless heiress]
If not for her falling into a vegetative state while saving is in London a year ago, he would never have responded to her advances]
He owed her. He felt imunasurable gratitude. He could tolerate her unreasonable demands and protect her at all costs…]
But that didn’t mean he liked har[]
What no one knew was that after having his stomach pumped abroad years ago, he had flown back home to the Hart estate |
At a garden corner, he had accidentally collided with a delicate figure. Physically weak at the time, he had fainted after the collision]
When he awoke in his bedroom, a pair of reddened tearful eyes were watching him from beside the bed ||
That was his first meeting with Aurora. Seeing hins awake, she quickly wiped his forehead with a towel, though her fingers trembled with fear []
For some inexplicable reason, these tearful eyes had struck deep into his heart, his floating emotions suddenly finding ground.[]
“You’re that worried about me? Knocking me unconscious means you’re responsible for me now,” he had teased her.]]
But she had burst into tears, retorting to his joke: “Who’s worried about you? If you didn’t wake up. I’d lose my job!“]]
How adorable.
That day, this thought had suddenly occurred to him…]
Memories of Aurora unexpectedly flooded Grayson, piercing his heart like a needle.
The messy situation before him, the substantial betrayal of his marriage–all created an overwhelming guilt
His expression instantly cooled as he got out of bed, his tone becoming businesslike and hard: “I’ll pretend last night never happened. Evelyn, I’m grateful to you. I can protect you and spoil you, but that doesn’t mean I want to be with you.“]
“I never considered divorce, and I never intended to truly betray Rory. Don’t use such despicable methods again. This kind of behavior… makes you very unlikable
