Realizing that Grace had asked something she shouldn't have, she quickly leaned down and kissed Ed on the lips.

However, he turned his head away from her, his tone hauntingly low as he asked, "Did you remember something?"

"No. My head's full of only you," she answered quickly.

"Really?" "Yup."

Her answer appeared to have pleased him as a faint smile tugged at his lips. He finally turned his face back toward her, allowing her to kiss him.

Grace exhaled in quiet relief, but before her emotions could settle, his grip tightened around her waist as he pulled her back into another fevered round of intercourse.

A wave of tiredness washed over her after it was done, and she drifted off to sleep while nestled in his embrace. Worn out and unguarded, she soon slipped into another dream.

In the fog, a blurry figure stood in the distance. Yet when he spoke, his voice was unmistakably gentle. He called her Grace, her name sounding tender coming from

his lips.

Her brows furrowed. Even in the dream, she seemed restless, caught between comfort and unease. Then, as if summoned from the depths of her subconscious, a single line of something she once wrote appeared-"Never trust Ethan".

Ethan...

She felt as if her body were burning in a sea of fire and someone's gentle hand was wiping the sweat from her forehead. She turned over, trying to escape the suffocating heat, only to be pulled back. His arms wrapped around her like creeping vines, holding her tightly.

she jolted awake, her

waist tensed

you

swallowed hard as she scrambled for an excuse, but her mind was still caught in the haze of that surreal dream. She

and nestled into his arms. "My boss. Maybe it's because I resigned a few days ago and haven't fully adjusted yet. Calling his name didn't mean anything.

of guilt in her voice as

his head on the curve of her neck with a muffled

were a chaotic mess. That warning "Never trust Ethan"-was unmistakably written in her own handwriting. Yet what had

it?

her and Ethan on that island, she couldn't

for Ethan. She found it hard to decipher whether his

However, one thing

raw instinct

consequences lay ahead, she would

morning, she awoke to find herself in her car. Ed

now, she had

A gentle sigh escaped her before

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