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.

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

“Darling?” he uttered softly.

“Yes?”

locked eyes with Sebastian, she tried but failed to

even look at the man in the

blaming Sebastian for behaving unreasonably and making her upset. It now dawned on her that she was the root problem. However, she was struggling to offer a good explanation for what

Many thoughts rushed through her head in

holding his breath just so

mother had said something to him, that was why he came looking for

still waiting for her to elaborate on the matter, Sasha continued, “I’ve already denied my involvement in that matter, but he insisted that his mother had

she recalled how worried and terrified she had felt

me because of that and Yancy was very much

mean she’s

only needed to have 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

that woman to lay a finger on him. But at the same time, I cannot let him find out the

started to believe

let go of her son. And at the

Sasha nodded in assent as tears trickled down her

you tell me earlier? Do

that.” She