Chapter 97 Crossing the Line
Chapter 97 Crossing the Line
It was soft. Unbelievably soft
“Lily!”
The moment James realized he had just kissed Lily, he was absolutely disgusted with himself.
Grinding his teeth, he growled, “Don’t touch me!”
Then, with one sharp motion, he threw her off.
The warm furnace in her arms suddenly flew away. Lily jolted awake in a panic.
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Her head was still heavy, and her whole body felt awful, but she could still recognize that the man lying on the bed with his robe hanging open was James.
And across his bare chest, there were clear scratch marks.
Her gaze froze and shifted downward. There were more marks across his abs and down his V–line.
Any lower, and… it was barely covered.
“Lily, remember what you said. Don’t ever touch me again!”
At the sound of his voice, Lily instinctively looked up–and saw that his perfectly shaped lips were slightly
tom.
Her pupils shrank in alarm.
Those scratches on his chest and stomach–had she made those?
His lip–was that her doing too?
She’d always thought of herself as a decent person. So how come, ever since she met him, she kept doing things she couldn’t even put into words?
She could vaguely
tell that she had a fever.
And she wasn’t stupid–she could guess what happened. He must have realized something was wrong and tried to wake her up to take medicine. And she… she’d returned the favor by turning into a disaster.
Her face burned with shame. She wanted nothing more than to chop her hands off
When she saw him rise from her bed and tie his robe tightly, his face dark as night, she shivered and felt she had to say something.
Awkwardly, she cleared her throat and said in a tiny voice, “I didn’t mean to,”
“I… I think I had a fever. I was really cold. I thought you were a heater in my dream. That’s the only reason I did those weird things. I’m really sorry, Please don’t take it personally–I promise it won’t happen again.”
James’s face stayed frosty, like nothing had changed.
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What she’d done was way out of line. It wasn’t something he could easily forget.
Lily could tell his mood hadn’t improved.
Clearly, he hadn’t forgiven her.
She lowered her head even further and apologized again, more sincerely. “I have no idea how my stupid hands pulled your robe open and… anyway, I’m really sorry. If you want to smack my hands a few times to get it out of your system, go ahead”
Luke family men didn’t hit women.
And touching her to do that? Absolutely not.
All he could do was glare coldly and say, “Be more careful from now on. For the rest of these few months, I don’t want anything like that to happen again. I already have someone in my heart, and you’ll find someone too. We both need to have some self–respect.
He already has someone…
Lily felt even worse for him,
He had someone he loved. And after finally waking up from a coma, he must’ve been dying to see her. But instead, because of a marriage certificate, he was stuck living under the same roof as Lily. She couldn’t even imagine how miserable that was for him.
“I’m sorry.
She lowered her head even more, voice soft and honest.
“Before we got married, I really didn’t know you already had someone. Don’t worry–I won’t interfere with your relationship. And if she ever finds out we were married, I’ll help explain it to her. You didn’t choose this marriage. You didn’t even know it happened. Honestly, getting married out of nowhere like this… it sucks. Don’t worry. As soon as the six months are up, I’ll go with you to the civil office and get the divorce.”
“Mm.”
James knew she hadn’t done it on purpose..
And she’d apologized sincerely. As a grown man, he wasn’t going to keep picking at it.
He answered coolly and walked into the study.
Once he lay down in the study’s bed, he pulled out his phone and opened his chat with Leila.
He typed: “Sorry.”
He didn’t have a purity complex,
If Leila had been with someone before him, that was her past. He wouldn’t care.
But he had wanted to give her both his heart and body, clean and whole.
And just now.
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He had kissed someone else.
He had let Leila down.
But he remembered–Leila didn’t like it when he said “sorry” So he deleted it and typed something else instead.
“Good night.”
Earlier, Lily had been exhausted. But after some rest and taking fever medicine, she couldn’t fall back asleep.
Seeing the message from James, she felt like chatting. She couldn’t help but ask, “James, are you about to sleep?”
James had been planning to rest.
But when he saw her message, he knew she wanted to talk.
He wasn’t going to turn her away.
“Not tired. We can talk
