088 The Limping Wolf

Scarlett’s POV

What did I ever do to deserve this? I know it’s wrong to accept it, but it doesn’t make any of the joy of this

moment untrue.

“As much as I believe you,” I try to choose my words more wisely than last time, “We only met a week ago, Mr. Dunn, I don’t think-

1 understand your concern, and that’s why I wanted to take it slowly,” Adrian cuts me off with a kiss on the tips of my fingers, “but I don’t want to do that anymore. You let me in on the pregnancy to warn me off, no? You don’t have to. I will love your child as my own, and I will take better care of you than anyone ever will.”

can resist such a confession from the hero who just

I’m merely a human!

his words. I’m just surprised because I never painted him as the “love–for–life” type. According to Aurora, he is nothing but

breath to calm himself, Adrian starts slowly. “I have been in love with you since that night of our race. Do you remember that night? You were like a shooting star when you passed me on that mountain road, bright and dazzling. I held that first prize for years on that road, and the first time you came, you broke my record. You didn’t just leave your

The one girl who hates him??! And he took me for

this

I purse my lips, feeling awkward, but more importantly: “How did you know was.me? I didn’t even take off my

said she was taking me for “fun” that day, I think to cheer me

shotgun for the whole time. We got the first prize, and to our surprise, the “prize” was a cup of beer!

neither of us

at that memory, “That’s the special honor for the first prize. It has always been mine, and when you pour it to the ground, the guys laughed at you

not. It was true.

threw the coaster in my face,” Adrian tilts his head with a bright smile, “I guess I deserved it. I did laugh with

story behind the old coaster in his

this. I think I was trying my best not

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