Returning from the Dead: His Secret Lover

So it was all because of that. Oh… he already knew.

Paralyzed by an overwhelming sense of terror, Sasha was as still as a statue. Her mind was in such a mess she could not make heads or tails.

“Darling?”

Her catatonic state alarmed him, making his heart sink further.

Is there really something going on between them?

The man fell silent.

For a few seconds, the world was reduced to just the two of them sitting side by side in the dining carriage. It was a pin drop silence and definitely resembled the calm before the storm.

The silence was finally broken by the service staff who had returned with the hot chocolate. “Is everything okay?”

He, too, sensed the palpable tension in the air and felt a tingle in his scalp.

Fortunately for him, Sasha snapped back to reality upon his entrance.

“Oh… It’s all right. Is this hot chocolate? Thank you very much,” she said while taking over the cup with her icy cold hand.

Sasha was holding it as though it was not some steamy hot chocolate in a porcelain teacup.

of her and studied her stupefied expression carefully. At that moment, he felt as though he had just fallen into

“Darling?” he uttered softly.

“Yes?”

with Sebastian, she tried but failed to

mind went into a frenzy. She could not even look at the

unreasonably and making her upset. It now dawned on her that she was the root problem. However, she was struggling to

at the hospital the other day, but it wasn’t what you think.” Many thoughts rushed through her head in an instance. Still holding onto the hot chocolate,

his breath just so he would

came looking for me at the hospital to thank me for begging you to let

her to elaborate on the matter, Sasha continued, “I’ve already denied my involvement in that matter, but he insisted that his mother had told him everything, so I panicked. I was afraid

recalled how worried and terrified she had felt on those

for me because of

she’s

a brief word with you about letting him go. But I didn’t expect her to turn around and did something so evil!” With a heavy heart, Sasha told him part of the truth.

don’t want that woman to lay a finger on him. But

man started to believe her

of her son. And at the same time, she also tried to sow discord

assent as tears trickled down

didn’t you tell me earlier?

like that.” She looked