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,

hadn’t shared a

to touch

their problems and kiss and make up. But Rena chose to move into another bedroom. It was difficult for Waylen

say anything more. He shut the car door, walked around the car, and hopped into the driver’s seat. He gunned the engine

“Mr. Fowler!”

looked out the

crutch and hobbling toward

explained, “The doctor said my leg should recover within two months, and there

that, she put

more often now that he and Rena were no longer in speaking terms.

he hadn’t shown

matter. If he couldn’t come see her, then she

Mavis and

started driving toward the main road. Watching the lavish black vehicle

deliberately dropped her crutch and let herself fall

to appear frail and

see Mavis falling. He frowned and

about following

her get in the car and give her

hesitated, “Mrs. Fowler isn’t going

spinning, aching head, Waylen retorted, “If you don’t tell her, then she won’t find out. Besides, we’re just sending the poor girl home. There’s

the chauffeur had no choice but to get out of

next

his seat, and closed his eyes. Meanwhile, Mavis

turned to stare

features were so sharp and perfect, and he exuded such a beautiful,

this car was

things, Mavis felt her blood boil with desire. She greedily inhaled the air around

against the mattress? Would his handsome face contort in sweet agony as he thrust

thought of it

soft kiss on his collar, making sure her lipstick

put on a light orange lipstick

enough, she would be able to

eyes. Before he could fully wake up, Mavis immediately sat

at Mavis’ apartment, which was located

chauffeur helped Mavis get out

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

face, smiled, and

stared out

leaned in earlier and kissed his collar. She was Elvira’s biological sister, and they had a striking resemblance to each other. Such a young and

he would possess her the moment he let her

would have a young

could be

let happen between himself and Mavis earlier was a test he set

see how much

he saw her playing the piano with such vigor and passion. Then, his heart started racing.

pros

Waylen chose

house of the

middle of the night, so most of the lights in the house had already been turned off. However, the lights in Rena’s bedroom

and ascended the stairs to the second

checking on Alexis and Marcus, he opened

left unlocked, so he was

a book in her hand. She

exposed skin gleamed like crystal

Waylen liked her body.

long time. He didn’t know if it was just the alcohol, but every fiber of his

first and then more and more

Rena didn’t even stir.

less resistant of him in

kissing her for a while, Waylen finally gave in

caress was what

at the

mark on the

left it

at Waylen quietly, but he was still fired up. He had already started taking

of me!” Rena’s face turned

on. He thought that Rena was still angry with him and didn’t want to sleep with

back on the sofa. Her body was

saw Mavis today,

Waylen was stunned.

explained, “Yes, I did, but nothing

putting her pajamas

of his shirt and showed him

white shirt stood

his brows and said, “I swear we didn’t do anything. You can ask the

without his consent, he took off his shirt and tossed it into the

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

bother to lose

with tears. After 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

How is that any different from

trying to help. I don’t have a romantic interest in

didn’t want to have this conversation

the blackness outside, she murmured, “You allow her to get close to you. You allow her to provoke your legal

have already crossed the

today, I

apartment and let her take your coat. You would’ve let her touch you and kiss you. You would’ve taken her as your lover. You would’ve let her replace Elvira in your

a cigarette and lit it. He was shaking so badly

while, he said, “You didn’t have to say such

didn’t quarrel with

Waylen, the only reason we still share a home is that we no longer share a bed. It’s only a matter of time

heart ached as

was

drink, Waylen couldn’t stand his alcohol-induced

at Rena’s back and thought arguing

forehead and muttered, “Let’s talk about this tomorrow. Go

Rena stood still.

called after him, “Take your

his wife just stabbed him in the chest,

help wondering whether or

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