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.

from him,

hadn’t shared a bed in months.

didn’t allow him to

couple to have fights sometimes, but they should be able to resolve their problems and kiss and make up. But Rena chose to move into another bedroom. It was difficult for Waylen to talk to her, much more sleep with her.

shut the car door, walked around the car, and hopped into the driver’s seat. He gunned the engine and was about to pull away

“Mr. Fowler!”

the window and

a crutch and hobbling

“The doctor said my leg should recover within two

saying that, she put on her victimized

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

he hadn’t

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

at Mavis and ordered the chauffeur

toward the main road. Watching the lavish black vehicle pass

deliberately dropped her crutch and let

to appear

falling. He frowned and barked, “Stop

dithered about following

get in the car and give her a

Fowler isn’t

aching head, Waylen retorted, “If you don’t tell her, then she won’t find

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

sat next to

Waylen ignored Mavis, rested his head on the back of his seat, and closed his

turned to stare at

perfect, and he exuded such

car was

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

the mattress? Would his handsome face

it made her

planted a soft kiss on

on a

she would be able to

then opened his eyes. Before he could fully wake up,

arrived at Mavis’ apartment, which was located in a

helped Mavis get out

said in a soft voice, “Thank you for giving me a ride home, Mr. Fowler. If you need me to explain

at her face, smiled, and

out the window and let his

biological sister, and they had a striking resemblance to each other. Such a young and attractive girl was throwing herself

would possess her

he would have a young and

could be Elvira’s

Mavis

to see how much

eye, he saw her playing the piano with such vigor and passion. Then, his heart started racing. The ‘only woman who

always weighed the pros and cons

Waylen chose Rena

of the Fowler

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

through the foyer and ascended the stairs

on Alexis and Marcus, he opened the door to

so he

sofa with a book in her hand. She

skin gleamed like crystal

Waylen liked her body.

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

kissed her, softly at first and then more and more hungrily. He began

Rena didn’t even stir.

less resistant

while, Waylen

caress was what woke

and stared at the big,

instantly noticed the orange kiss mark on

left it

still fired up. He had

of me!”

on. He thought that Rena was still angry with him and didn’t want to sleep with him, so he gently nibbled on her

sofa. Her body was alluring

Mavis today, didn’t

Waylen was stunned.

“Yes, I did, but nothing happened. I just gave her

began putting her pajamas

two buttons of his

his white

we didn’t do anything. You

Mavis left on him 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

bother to lose

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 a

How is that

help. I don’t have a romantic

didn’t want to have this

Gazing at the blackness outside, she murmured, “You allow her

have already crossed

hadn’t been with you today,

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

a cigarette and lit it. He was shaking so badly that he

didn’t have to say such harsh

quarrel with

those unprepared to hear it. Waylen, the only reason we still share a home is that we no longer share

heart ached as she

was indeed

to drink, Waylen couldn’t stand his

back and thought arguing tonight wouldn’t

muttered, “Let’s

Rena stood still.

Waylen turn the doorknob, she called after him, “Take your shirt. I

wife just stabbed him in the chest, Waylen turned

whether or not she

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