Can’t Win Me Back

Chapter 2157

"Let's not sleep in separate rooms tonight.Sleep with me,"

Amber said, her voice laced with forced flirtation.

She suppressed a wave of disgust, pain, and self-loathing as she invited Carl into her bed.

Her gaze, supposedly amorous, held a chilling undercurrent.

Her eyes darted toward Carl's chest, where his cross necklace hung.

She yearned to rip open his shirt with her eyes.

"Amber, what's wrong? Are you sick? Did you drink?" Carl asked, his voice hoarse and strained.

He swallowed hard, his hand touching her forehead with practiced restraint.

"No, I'm sober.I know what I'm doing,"Amber replied.Leaning in, she adopted a tender expression.

already like husband and wife, aren't we? Sharing a bed

was desperate to find the

care about the cost, even if it meant sacrificing her battered

sense of impending doom loomed over her; she feared neither she nor Carl

evidence that could destroy Jameson in one fell

have all the time in the world,"Carl said, his eyes filled

deep

you think I'm filthy, don't

as tears

me not because you love me but because you pity

"No, that's not it!"

shoulders,

knows your hardships in getting here

stunned, staring at him as if he were a

Jameson to marry her, she might have ended up in

part of her was touched, but it wasn't enough to absolve him of the crimes he'd committed over