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.

change us.We're already like husband and wife, aren't we? Sharing

was desperate to find the

cost, even

over her; she feared neither she nor Carl would leave

could destroy Jameson in

Amber.We have all the time in the

he took deep breaths,

think I'm

tears welled up in

because you love me but because you pity me after all

"No, that's not it!"

her shoulders, panic

in 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 force you to

was stunned, staring at him as if

with Jameson to marry her, she might have ended

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