Beyond the Divorce

Chapter 261 Missing You More Than Words

I wanted to kick myself as the words left my mouth I didn’t regret saying it, but a peculiar feeling had washed over me. Sure enough, Atlas smiled at me, but I noticed an unmistakable hostility

My dad spoke up. “What are you saying? Mr. Atlas had a drink, so he shouldn’t be driving!”

“Oh,” I replied, getting up. “Alright.”

When we got to the car, Atlas said, “Head to Cresswind Valley.”

My heart sank a bit. Although Cresswind Valley was closer than Fremont Bay, I wondered why he didn’t

want to go back there

As if reading my thoughts, he explained. Fremont Bay is too far I don’t feel comfortable with you driving

back alone.”

His words left me conflicted Was it because he cared about me?

Neither of us spoke during the drive, and the silence hung heavily in the air. When we reached Cresswind

Tower, he said, “Come up with me

hesitation. After a

was so nervous as the

trouble breathing

noticed he had booked the same room we had been in before. He went

followed with some

of the room only added to the stifling awkwardness between

directly into his eyes. Atlas looked intense as he

was figuring out what he meant when he lowered his head and kissed my

go, even when I winced and let out an indelicate

into his

our passionate kiss turned into a tender one.

when he finally released

prelund nothing happened?

him. After everything we’d been through, he

man was he?

he could hear my thoughts, Atlas lifted me and headed toward

on my birthday night. Atlas took his time and pressed down on me, his fingers

at me intensely, as though he hadn’t seen me in a while and couldn’t remember

washed over my sense of reason as I

in the afterglow, he looked at me and asked, “Don’t you want your daughter

carefree, just like her, without any burdens,” I confessed.