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

find

about the cost, even if it meant sacrificing her battered

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

could destroy Jameson in one

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

took deep breaths,

you think I'm filthy,

heart sank as tears welled up in her

me but because you pity

"No, that's not it!"

shoulders, panic in his

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 marrying

staring at him as if

Jameson to marry her, she might have ended

wasn't enough to absolve him of the