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.

us.We're already like husband and wife,

find the evidence

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

doom loomed over her; she feared neither she nor Carl would

could destroy Jameson

the time in the world,"Carl said, his eyes

he took deep breaths,

think I'm

heart sank as tears welled up in her

with me not because you love me but because you pity me after all these

"No, that's not it!"

gripped her shoulders,

love with you that I can't bear to touch you.No one knows your hardships in getting here like I do.I will never

staring at him as if

if Carl hadn't pleaded with Jameson to marry her, she might have ended up in a mass grave

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