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.

her stupefied expression carefully. At that moment, he felt as

“Darling?” he uttered softly.

“Yes?”

locked eyes with Sebastian, she tried but failed to conceal the frantic

even look at the man in the

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

it wasn’t what you think.” Many thoughts rushed through

keep silent. He was holding his breath just so he would not miss a

that was why he came looking for me at the hospital to thank me for begging you to

my involvement in that matter, but he insisted that his mother had told him everything, so I panicked. I was afraid that

welled up as she recalled how worried and terrified she had felt on those

lie about this part. Solomon did come looking for me because of that and Yancy was very much involved in that matter

You mean she’s aware of this

thought I only needed to have a brief word with you about letting him go. But I didn’t expect her

I need him to believe me this once. I have no other choice. I don’t want that woman to lay a finger on him. But

man started to

she has planned all these so that I’d let go of her son. And at

Sasha nodded in assent as tears trickled down

you tell me earlier? Do

like that.”