Crystal's One Night of Love

Melora returned to Barnwood.

She thought she wouldn’t be able to meet Alfred for a long time, but he showed up within a week of her return.

He had called her that night, and when she picked up, he had told her, “Come outside.”

Huh? Is he in Barnwood? she wondered as her heart began to beat quickly.

She held on to her handphone, unwilling to hang up just yet. Hurriedly, she changed into a dress and ran downstairs. David was still awake, and upon seeing his youngest daughter all dressed up, he said. offhandedly, “You’re going out? But it’s so late.”

“Lynette wants to get supper together,” she lied before running out.

David just shook his head at his daughter’s antics.

A black Lotus was parked next to the Miller residence.

Alfred was dressed in an all-black outfit and blended in perfectly with the night sky as he smoked a cigarette against his car. At the sight of Melora running toward him, he opened his arms just in time for her to crash into his embrace. She buried her head into his shoulder and inhaled deeply, trying to capture the intoxicating scent radiating off him.”

A few seconds passed before she whined playfully, “You nearly burned me with your cigarette.”

He chuckled and put out the cigarette before leaning down to kiss her.

She was a little bit apprehensive since they were right outside her house.

Clearly, Alfred was cautious too, since they only shared a short kiss before he bundled her into the car.

Melora slowly put on her seatbelt. Her eyes glimmered as she asked him, “Where are we going?”

She wanted to ask if they would be going to a hotel, but she didn’t want to sound so eager. If she said that, she might sound like she was desperate to sleep with him.

Alfred turned to look at her.

After a whole week of not seeing her, his longing for her was stronger than he could bear. He barely managed to eke out a few hours that day just so he could see her.

He interlocked their hands and said in a slightly raspy voice, “You’ll know when we get there.”

Melora hummed in response obediently.

-The car sped onto the highway and arrived in front of a high-class condominium at Broadway Alley about.

an hour later.

The condominium was well-known for being expensive but also having good security and privacy.

Apparently, most of the people who bought units there were CEOs and celebrities.

Alfred brought her upstairs.

They arrived at a unit where Alfred opened the door to reveal a room that seemed to be around one hundred and twenty square meters. It was decorated rather luxuriously, and a jazz singer’s soft voice was crooning from the record player.

Melora took her jacket off and started looking around.

Alfred let her give herself a house tour while he went to the kitchen to pour her a glass of milk.

she was done, she hugged him from the back. Her voice was shaking a little bit nervously when she

to become his

announce their relationship openly, she might as well

Alfred said, “Drink this first.”

to whatever Alfred said, but she was stubborn in

I can’t properly marry you for now. I can’t even bring you out on dates or hold. hands with you on the street. We can’t keep meeting in hotels because I don’t want to treat you so cheaply. I know what this place must seem like to you, but I promise that I’ve never thought of you that way. Please treat this place like your own home. Here, I can be your husband. Here, I’ll be

he could spend time with her whenever he

them could finally announce their relationship to

blushing after his sudden

begun to feel a little bit embarrassed and overjoyed at the same

is the house Mr. Alfred bought for me.

cooed, “I even put two bunnies in the bedroom. Leslie had to get someone to queue up

him affectionately, she replied, “I like you

her. After a while, she pulled away and began whining that she was hungry. With

waist was slender and tight, but she had curves. everywhere else that mattered.

his hands off

him as he busied

want him to be here?” Alfred chuckled. “Even while we’re doing things in

Melora frowned indignantly.

sometimes. Just because he’s older, he likes to tease me all

up and placed her on the counter so she could watch him make ravioli.

than ever while doing such simple household work simply because Melora was there with him. It was

him why he wasn’t

just because he was busy, nor was it because

hadn’t met anyone he had wanted to settle down

true fate turned out to be with a girl who was possibly the furthest thing from that.

to do was be affectionate with him and throw her little tantrums when she didn’t like

the same. There was

he treat her as a wife, but he also treated her as a child sometimes, Although he liked to tease her all the time, he usually went along with whatever she wanted.

was tired, so she offered to

didn’t want her to even go near

and thought he had a responsibility to make sure she was living a better life with him than she was with the Millers. If she felt slighted in

was one night for Melora

she eventually had to explain why she wouldn’t be going home the

that, she went back into the bedroom.

finished showering and was on the bed in his bathrobe. He

not wanting to wake him up, but he woke up the

his hands around her slim waist. “Are you done with

“Yup,” she replied.

his head to be closer to her. The narrow space between them was filled with their warm breaths, igniting a heated

he asked, “Can we do

the bedside drawer and took out a small box that he left

she was pinned underneath him as his lips crushed hers.

a little bit sorry for him. It wasn’t as if she didn’t want to do it. However, she could tell that he was exhausted.

Alfred paused.