Rena started playing the piano once again. After finishing one song, she said, “I’m just trying to protect the people who are important to me, Waylen.”

Waylen stared at Rena for a long time.

Then, he began loosening his tie and ascending the stairs.

Waylen and Rena had dinner and put Alexis and Marcus to bed without talking to each other. They lived in the same house, but they treated each other like strangers.

Rena didn’t care anymore.

It was late at night.

Waylen and Rena began retiring to their own respective bedrooms.

In the corridor, Waylen grabbed Rena’s hand and said, “We need to talk.”

After Waylen said that, Rena’s phone rang, and she answered.

It was a call from one of her bodyguards that she sent to watch Mavis. The bodyguard reported hesitantly, “Sorry to bother you this late, ma’am, but the woman we were watching just jumped out of a third-story window. She shattered her legs.”

Jumped out a window.

Rena replied calmly, “Take her to the hospital. And keep your eyes on her.”

Waylen knocked the phone out of Rena’s hand and threw a fit of pique.

“She has already been expelled from school. What more do you want?

Rena… Have you always been this cold-blooded? Do you not trust me, or do you not trust your own decisions?

Is this how our marriage is going to be now?”

He confronted her with so many questions.

Rena was in a trance. Then, a smile tugged on the corners of her mouth.

“Yes. I suppose I have always been cold-blooded when circumstances necessitate it.

I can’t allow that woman to stay in Duefron.

I don’t care where she ends up as long as she’s nowhere near my family.”

Waylen looked at Rena with eyes burning with fury.

He walked to the end of the corridor, dialed a number, and ordered his assistant a series of things.

His assistant was a little startled but still went to do what he was told.

Rena stood under the light in the corridor. She overheard Waylen’s phone conversation with his assistant. He was going to help Mavis get back to school and pay for her medical expenses. ©

He would keep Mavis in Duefron.

At this moment, Rena felt extreme exhaustion, both physically and emotionally.

She felt that she and Waylen weren’t on the same page at all. Waylen didn’t know and would never know the kind of pain and fear through which he was putting her.

The crystal light in the corridor was bright.

Gnashing her teeth together, Rena picked up her phone and sent a message. It read, “Don’t watch her anymore. Leave her alone this instant.”

Waylen turned around after he hung up.

Rena was no longer there. The spring chill was all that was left in the long, luxurious corridor.

Waylen thought of what he had said and felt that he had spoken too strongly.

He didn’t want to have a falling out with Rena. He was willing to coax her and compromise with her. He was willing to put this matter about Mavis to bed.

Waylen knocked on Rena’s bedroom door and said, “Rena, open the door. Please.”

He waited for a few minutes, but no sound came from inside the room.

She obviously didn’t want to speak with him.

Waylen patiently waited for a few more minutes before he said in a low voice, “Please open the door. Let’s talk this over. It’s late. Do you want me making enough noise to wake up my parents? Can you please be reasonable, Rena?”

Still, there was no response.

After standing outside for a long time, Waylen decided to give up and go back to his bedroom.

Their relationship was almost at a breaking point.

It was rare for them to see each other after that night. Rena seldom gave Waylen the chance to spend time with her, and he was too proud to talk to her first.

It was the dead of night, and Waylen couldn’t fall asleep.

All he could think about was Rena. He was still deeply and madly attracted to her, and he still wanted her sobad. ©

Waylen had to attend a social engagement for work one day.

He was in a bad mood, so he drank a little too much at the banquet. After the party, he got in the car tipsy and dizzy.

The chauffeur knew nothing about Waylen’s private life, so he commented while he was opening the car door for his boss, “You’re drunk, Mr. Fowler. Mrs. Fowler won’t be pleased.

Women don’t like their men coming home to them intoxicated.”

Hearing the chauffeur’s remark, Waylen just leaned against the back seat.

He took out a cigarette from his cigarette case and lit it. Exhaling the smoke, he smiled bitterly and asked, “Are you sure she even cares?”

He had been living like he didn’t have a wife. Right now, he and Rena were more like roommates sharing a house.

kept away from him,

shared a

to touch her at

chose to move into another bedroom. It was difficult for Waylen to

walked around the car, and

“Mr. Fowler!”

the window and saw

on a crutch and

Mavis looked at her leg with grievance. She explained, “The doctor said my leg should recover

that, she put

thought that Waylen would come visit her more often now that he and Rena were no longer in speaking terms.

he hadn’t shown

come see

at Mavis and ordered the

Watching the lavish

and let herself

to

falling. He

about

low voice, “Help her get

“Mrs. Fowler isn’t going to like this,

“If you don’t tell her, then she won’t find out. Besides, we’re just sending the poor girl

boss’ logic, the chauffeur had no choice but to get out of the car and then help

next to

on the back of his seat,

to stare at

sharp and perfect, and he exuded such a beautiful,

car

about all those things, Mavis felt her blood boil with desire. She greedily inhaled the air around Waylen and

press her against the mattress? Would his handsome face contort in sweet agony

of it made her hot and

his snow-white shirt, she leaned in and planted a soft kiss on his collar, making sure her lipstick marked

a

Rena looked closely enough, she would be able to spot

he could fully wake up, Mavis immediately

later, they arrived at Mavis’

Mavis get

voice, “Thank you for giving me a ride home, Mr. Fowler. If

her face, smiled, and

drove away, Waylen stared out the window and let his

leaned in earlier and kissed his collar. She was Elvira’s biological sister, and they

that he would possess her the moment

a

could be

happen between himself and Mavis earlier was a test

wanted to see how much he

he saw her playing the piano with

the pros

Waylen chose

the house of

up at the house. It was already the middle of the night, so most of

passed through the foyer and ascended the stairs to the

and Marcus, he opened

unlocked, so he was able

the sofa with a book in her hand.

gleamed like crystal under the

Waylen liked her body.

if it was just the alcohol, but every fiber of his being ached to touch her, take her, and own

her, softly at first and then more and more hungrily. He began tracing her bottom lip with

Rena didn’t even stir.

less resistant of

for a while, Waylen finally

what woke

eyes and stared at the big, handsome

orange kiss mark on the collar of his white

must’ve left

he was still fired

of me!” Rena’s face turned

and didn’t want to sleep with him, so he gently nibbled on her earlobe and whispered, “Are

lay back on the sofa. Her body was alluring

saw Mavis today, didn’t

Waylen was stunned.

while, he looked at her and explained, “Yes, I did, but nothing happened. I

putting her

of his shirt and showed him the lipstick

lip-shaped stain on his white shirt stood out like a

and said, “I swear we didn’t

he took off his shirt and

he turned around and looked Rena straight in the eye. “I didn’t

bother to lose her

a few heartbeats, she said calmly, “No, you didn’t do anything unfaithful. You just helped that woman get reinstated in college, rented her a nice apartment, paid for her education, and found her

How is that any

help. I don’t have a romantic

want to have

Gazing at the blackness outside, she murmured, “You allow her to get close to you. You allow

already crossed

been with you today, I

You would’ve let her touch you and kiss you. You would’ve taken her as your

Waylen grabbed a cigarette and lit it. He was shaking so badly that he almost burned himself while lighting

“You didn’t have to say

quarrel

reason we still share a home is that we no longer share

ached

was

had too much to drink, Waylen couldn’t stand

stared at Rena’s back and thought arguing tonight wouldn’t do either

forehead and muttered, “Let’s talk about

Rena stood still.

Waylen turn the doorknob, she called after him, “Take your shirt. I don’t want it

stabbed him in the chest, Waylen turned and looked at Rena’s back

whether or not she truly loved

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