His Beloved Ex-Wife

Chapter 478 Not Completely Indifferent.

He leaned in once more, planting a fierce kiss on the side of Lysander’s neck.

She struggled as if she had been burned, attempting to kick him away with her leg. However, her strength was insufficient, and instead, allowed him the chance to lift half of the blanket off her.

He used his own body to replace the blanket, covering her.

“Guerra Group just received the final payment for a project. It isn’t much, around fifty to sixty million. I don’t plan on investing in any new projects in the near future, so this money can be allocated flexibly,” he

“Why are you telling me this?”

“Investment companies in Harborbrook probably won’t be investing in Daphne’s family business anytime soon as they nearly defaulted on their bank loans. From an investment company’s perspective, that’s a major red flag.”

Josiah looked down at Lysander, his eyes aflame with an unspoken passion. Even his breath carried a scorching heat.

Only a bedside lamp was lit in the entire room, casting orange light on them and subtly enhancing an air of ambiguity between them.

or your

Lysander’s struggling ceased, disbelief lacing her voice as she asked, “So, this is the condition for help:

With a self–deprecating laugh, Josiah said, “It’s not a condition; it’s my sincerity.”

After a considerable pause, Lysander finally asked, “Can I accept just half of your sincerity?”

She wanted the money, but not the person.

Upon understanding what she meant, Josiah raised an eyebrow at her.

Lysander quickly said, “You just mentioned earlier that I could come to you if I’m short on money.”

“All right,” said Josiah. “But my sincerity goes beyond this. You can refuse me as a person for now, but you have to accept everything else.”

Lysander asked skeptically, “What else is there?”

“My heart.”

When Lysander didn’t respond, Josiah added, “Money and my body, or money and my heart, choose one.”

“First, send the money to Daphne. As for your heart… wait until I return this time. I’ll have Lynn get me at surgical scalpel.”

“Don’t play dumb; you know exactly what I’m talking about.”

His gaze was as scorching and sharp as a blade, so much so that she averted her eyes.

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“All right.”

why, your heart-”

“I love you.”

was taken

not lying to you

chaos, the bedside lamp was

on Lysander lifted, only to return in a

presence instantly enveloped her

giving her a single

to find her lips so accurately in the darkness, let alone perceive her feeble resistance. Somehow, he had managed to grasp her hand in advance, pressing it

just a gentle, fleeting taste, but later it turned into

from his burning kiss, then, like a trapped animal fighting for its last shred of freedom in the cage he provided, she said, “Are you

paused momentarily.

heavy sigh. “You don’t

don’t love

speak so definitively

sentence, her punishment for

into the main event. Instead, he was exceedingly tender

and lips. Yet, he remained unhurried and calm, as if he was carrying

the kind of man who

it was forced, it was actually more like him forcing her to accept his services.

tears welled un in I wander’s evec and anlĝen

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main

continued his advance, he gently brushed her trembling eyelashes with his fingers, catching the teardrops that

not completely indifferent to me in certain situations, are you?”

“No!”

it, turning her

forcibly turning her

Then I’ll continue until you do.”

since Lysander had done something like this. At first, she couldn’t adapt at all. Josiah endured, breaking out in a sweat. The beads of perspiration dripped onto her chest,

were a long–married couple. Josiah quickly regained his

her defenses, he went wild and let

clear, only to be swallowed by boundless chaos the next. She felt like a drowning woman clinging to a single piece of driftwood, unable to die but also

for six

phone alarm

dawn

night before, she had drawn the curtains tight so not a shred of light. could penetrate, making it

set

echoed in