Crystal's One Night of Love

Chapter 265 It Will Not Hurt The Baby

Late at night, when Crystal returned to the master bedroom after putting Skyler to bed, Henry was nowhere to be seen.

In the end, she found him in the study.

It was pitch dark, yet he did not turn on any lights.

He stood before the floor-to-ceiling windows, pulling away quietly. As he did so, the cigarette. smoke was carried away in the wind.

It scattered before fading into the night.

Crystal closed the door behind her before walking over and hugging the man from behind. “You’re still dwelling upon it, Henry?”

Ever since leaving the monastery, he had been sullen and moody.

It was clear as day that he was very much bothered by that abbot’s words.

Patting the hand she had wrapped around his waist, Henry snubbed out the cigarette and fibbed lowly, “No. Don’t overthink things.”

With her cheek plastered against his back, Crystal cajoled, “If so, cheer up, okay? That abbot’s words might not be true. Perhaps he merely made them up.”

Henry whirled around and chuckled softly.

He caressed her belly. “Has the baby been behaving?”

Crystal threw him a look. “The baby is only a little over a month old, so that’s a moot point.”

Gathering her into his arms, Henry dropped a kiss on her hair. “I’ll keep our baby company as he’s brought into the world and watch him grow up, Crystal. I won’t let you leave again.”

Crystal listened as she nestled in his embrace.

Since she had been with him for a long time, she could naturally perceive that he was still. tense inwardly.

Hoping to please him, she tilted her head back and kissed his chiseled jaw before moving. down to his neck. Ultimately, her warm breath kindled the fire within him. Besides, it was rare for her to be so proactive.

Henry grasped her long hair gently, his gaze dark with desire.

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He wanted her, but he had to consider their unborn baby.

a long while, he finally snapped. Scooping her up, he placed her on

darkness, Henry leaned

her from doing so. Interlocking

“Henry…”

was already

snowy night when the man.

persuaded her, his voice hoarse beyond recognition. “Don’t be

As such, he needed to do something

time passed,

his head and

to kiss her as he pleased,

lingered in

each other, the breaths the couple exhaled were scorching even as their bodies

shoulder, asking in a quivering

response, Henry

her ear, he inquired in a hoarse

herself to

in her

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a spark of fire shooting through her, the warmth traveling

heart.

Crystal’s wedding was scheduled for a month later. With Julia and Melora making the arrangements, Crystal was very much relaxed. Like before, she only needed to

the contrary, Henry was

hand and free up a month to travel

would also be

work matters when Jamie pushed open the door and stepped in with at stack

presence, he merely raised his

However, Jamie remained motionless.

the financial reports from her. When he saw they were of Adroit Law Firm, he

ago, he retired from the

founded Adroit Law Firm, and he

should have long since let go of his shares, but he had not done

in a low voice, “Issue a statement for me and sell off my

of

and abroad back then. When it was at the peak of its glory, an appointment for his services could be months later, and

after, Jamie

sat there quietly, flipping through the financial reports. The reason he made such a quick decision was actually due

how many reprehensible things he had done in a bid to

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