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

“Darling?” he uttered softly.

“Yes?”

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

frenzy. She could not even look at the man in the

her upset. It now dawned on her that she was the root problem. However, she was struggling to offer a good explanation for

me 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, Sasha started

man continued to keep silent. He was holding his breath just so he would not

for me at the hospital to thank me for begging you to

Sebastian was 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

up as she recalled how worried and terrified she

me because of that and Yancy was very much involved in

You mean 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

I don’t want that woman to lay a

started to believe

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

nodded in assent as tears trickled down her

didn’t you tell me earlier? Do you still not

not like that.” She looked