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

find the evidence Carl

cost, even if it meant sacrificing her

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

needed evidence that could destroy Jameson in

all the time in the world,"Carl said,

deep breaths, restraining

you think I'm

sank as tears welled

love me but because you pity me after all these

"No, that's not it!"

shoulders, panic in his

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 be intimate with me.And I'm only

staring at him as if he were

if Carl hadn't pleaded with Jameson to marry her, she might have ended

enough to absolve him of the