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

a

to touch her at

But Rena chose to move into another bedroom. It was difficult for Waylen to talk to her, much more sleep with her. Because of the wedge that Rena

shut the car door, walked around the car,

“Mr. Fowler!”

the window and saw

was on a crutch

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

that, she put on her victimized

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

he hadn’t shown

he couldn’t come see

nodded at Mavis and ordered the chauffeur to

toward the main road. Watching the lavish black vehicle pass her by,

dropped her crutch and let herself fall to the

made sure to appear

happened to see Mavis falling. He frowned and barked, “Stop

about following Waylen’s

in a low voice, “Help her get in the car and give her

Fowler isn’t going to

you don’t tell her, then she won’t find out. Besides, we’re just sending the poor girl home. There’s nothing wrong with

chauffeur had no choice but to get out of the

next to

rested his head on the back of his seat, and closed his

to

so sharp and perfect, and

car was

She greedily inhaled the air around Waylen

mattress? Would his handsome face contort in

thought of it

at his snow-white shirt, she leaned in and planted a soft kiss on his collar,

on a light

Rena looked closely enough, she would be able to spot Mavis’ kiss mark on Waylen’s

then opened his eyes. Before he could

at Mavis’ apartment, which was located in

get out of

door. Mavis bowed to meet his gaze and said in a soft voice, “Thank you for giving me a ride home, Mr. Fowler. If you need me to explain to Mrs. Fowler, I’ll tell her that nothing

looked at her face,

out the

Mavis leaned in earlier and kissed his collar. She was Elvira’s biological sister, and they had a striking resemblance

he would possess her the moment he

would have a

be Elvira’s

and Mavis

to see how much he

the piano with such vigor

the pros and

chose Rena

of the

It was already the middle of the night, so most of the lights in the house had already been turned off. However, the

and ascended

and Marcus, he opened the door to Rena’s

unlocked, so he was

fallen asleep on the sofa with a book in her hand. She

skin gleamed like

Waylen liked her body.

long time. He didn’t know if it was just the alcohol,

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

Rena didn’t even stir.

less resistant of him

kissing her for a while, Waylen finally gave in

what woke up

and stared at the big, handsome face

the orange kiss mark on

must’ve left it

he was still fired up. He had already started taking off

of me!” Rena’s face

him and didn’t want to sleep with him, so he

the sofa. Her body was alluring and attractive,

saw Mavis today, didn’t

Waylen was stunned.

at her and explained, “Yes, I did, but nothing happened. I just gave her a

her pajamas back

of his shirt and showed him

orange, lip-shaped stain on his white shirt stood out like

brows and said, “I swear we didn’t do

that Mavis left on him without his consent, he took off his shirt and tossed it

Rena straight in the eye. “I didn’t

to lose

you didn’t do anything unfaithful. You just

Waylen. How is that any different from keeping a

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

to have this

up and walked to her bedroom’s French window. Gazing at the blackness outside, she murmured, “You allow her

already

been with you today, I bet you would’ve

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

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

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

quarrel

no longer share a bed. It’s only a matter of time now before our bond breaks completely and Mavis gets her

heart ached

truth was

much to drink, Waylen couldn’t stand

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

his forehead and muttered, “Let’s talk about

Rena stood still.

Waylen turn the doorknob, she called after him, “Take

stabbed him in the chest, Waylen turned

or not she truly loved

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