Dear Sweetheart

Chapter 567

James’ hot breath tickled Kristie’s cheeks. Her heart was pounding furiously like a runaway horse.

She continued to back away from him until her calves hit the couch, causing her to lose her balance and fall.

James loomed over her on the couch, and Kristie’s body stiffened in response. She stammered, “Get back. Don’t come near me…”

In response, he tucked her loose hair behind her ear and brought his lips closer to her face.

“You’re taking advantage of me again.” Kristie pressed her palms on his chest to keep him away. Her eyes reddened with tears as she pleaded between sobs, “Don’t force me to do this. I have a boyfriend. I don’t want to cheat on him.”

Her words drew a chuckle from James, who teased, “Don’t worry your pretty head about it. You won’t be a cheater as long as he doesn’t know about this. I can keep a secret.”

“You’re too much!”

The rest of Kristie’s protests were swallowed by James’ passionate kisses.

She breathed in his familiar scent and eventually gave in to pleasure.

Kristie hooked her legs around his waist to bring herself closer to him.

The couch proved too squeezy for both of them, and James stopped himself from taking things too far. Instead, he carried Kristie to the bedroom.

Kristie looked at him through half-lidded eyes. She simply could not tear her gaze away from his perfect abs as he took off his clothes. Her hands moved toward his torso, unbidden.

The feel of his rock-hard muscles drew an amazed gasp from Kristie. “I didn’t know you hid such a hot body under those clothes!”

James leaned over her and whispered in her ear, “It’s all yours.”

His flirtatious words brought a furious blush to Kristie’s face.

She buried her head in his chest and reveled in the warmth of his body. Still, once she closed her eyes, traumatic memories of her helpless shrieks suddenly filled her mind. Her body began shuddering uncontrollably.

“No, no…” She curled into herself and flailed around, screaming, “Don’t touch me! Don’t touch me!”

to his body, both deep enough to draw

clasped Kristie’s wrist and coaxed tenderly, “Kristie, open your eyes.

eyes closed and sobbed. She struggled against his hold and wailed,

James’ heart. He could only comfort her and attempt to distract her with gentle kisses. He hoped she could think of herself instead of

face and kissed

gasp for air, he let go and intertwined his fingers with hers. At the same time,

brows in confusion and slowly opened

Don’t be scared.” James kissed her cheek and said, “I’ve always

returned to

at him and abruptly sat up, wrapping her arms tightly around his neck. She was

arms around her and stroked

had rushed back from

familiar Maybach parked outside the airport, against

before approaching the vehicle.

Jefferson pushed himself away from the Maybach and adjusted

looked up at the clear, blue sky and muttered, “Hmm, it doesn’t seem as

a brow at Curtis, deadpanning, “What? Do you need me to open

smiled and opened

from the airport. He commented, “Bet you

had to fix that before coming back. It cost me eight hundred million, but at least it’s over now,” Curtis explained

get him to talk to me. I’d

Nicholson out of the picture.” Curtis’ gaze darkened as he continued, “I can’t rest easy

Nicholson is putting up a polite front toward me, though that’s because Old Mr.

Xavier has his hands full with Theodore’s affairs. Naturally, he won’t be on Mr. Nicholson’s side. I have no idea when Theodore will wake up from

we can’t put all our eggs in that basket. We need another plan. Getting someone out of the picture is easy; doing it discreetly is

understood Jefferson’s words immediately and closed his

“I have someone who could take over

the background. If you were involved, everyone would point fingers at you if something goes wrong. It’ll be a

in agreement. He could not think of

too

replied curtly, “If I was doing this just for you, then absolutely. I wouldn’t even offer to help. But since this involves Belle, it’s