Stealing Your Heart

The night was quiet.

Zong Jinghao’s car stopped in front of the villa. He turned the engine off and went down the car.

He walked across the forecourt and opened the villa’s front door. There was a warm, yellow light still lit in the living room. The house was quiet, as if all living beings were asleep.

He took off his jacket and threw it onto the couch. He loosened his collar and walked towards the room where Lin Xichen was sleeping.

The light was still on in the room but Lin Ruixi was already asleep in Lin Xinyan’s arms on the bed.

Lin Ruixi’s eyes were red, as if she had cried. She hiccupped every once in a while even when she was already asleep.

When Zong Jinghao had not come back, she was sitting on the living room’s couch. She was unwilling to sleep; she wanted to wait for her dad to come home.

Lin Xinyan’s coaxing did not work on her.

When it was nearly midnight and her eyes could barely open, Lin Xinyan forcefully carried her into the room even when she did not want to sleep. She cried immediately and asked Lin Xinyan if her dad did not want her again.

Lin Xinyan kissed her cheeks and disagreed on her words.

Yet the girl did not believe in her words. Children who grew up in a single-parent family often felt a lack of security. It was the same for Lin Ruixi.

She curled herself in Lin Xinyan’s arms and kept saying that she was a fatherless child.

She cried, and Lin Xinyan cried along with her.

When she tired herself from crying, she had fallen asleep in Lin Xinyan’s arms.

Lin Xinyan did not let go of her and went to sleep.

Lin Xichen was sleeping in the innermost part. The bed was spacious, and it did not feel cramped even when three people were sleeping on it. Zong Jinghao walked to the side of the bed. He gently moved Lin Xinyan’s arm, which was on Lin Ruixi, to his neck. He placed his other arm on her waist and carried her up.

When Lin Xinyan felt someone moving her, she opened her eyes and saw Zong Jinghao. She sobered up instantly. “You…”

“Hush.”

He gave her a look.

Lin Xinyan swallowed the words that were about to leave her mouth and let him carry her out of the room.

He carried her upstairs.

“You drank?” Lin Xinyan asked.

He had a strong alcohol scent on him. There was also a hint of perfume.

“Yes.”

her eyes. “With

mention He Ruilin so he replied,

smiled

smile, he

with a half-serious tone. “You’re a man

forehead on hers. “If you don’t

he opened the door with

Spots of shadow littered over each corner of the room. In comparison with the room downstairs, this room felt

on it. He leaned down and propped his arms on

watched her from

turned away, uncomfortable,

did not let her look away from

me.” He said with a commanding

held her hand and placed it on his chest. She could feel his skin underneath the shirt. His voice was low as he asked, “How are you going to

you?” Lin Xinyan’s entire body stiffened. She did not

was afraid that he

her. Their bodies were touching each other closely. He buried his head in her neck, and

a hot breath. It was ticklish

She tensed.

back. “For you, I’ve used my beauty as a strategy. Should you

be calm, but her hands on the blanket were clenched. The once-smooth blanket was now

her earlobe and sucked. Lin Xinyan tried to

doing.” His words were clear, and he

let you raise your children here, and

skipped a

Ruixi seemed to like him a lot. She had not spent

her daughter ever say what she said earlier that

corner of

voice was rough as she said, “You can’t

“Of course.”

Xinyan had agreed with him.

Lin Xinyan shivered.

Jinghao held her and leaned her against

his words tore Lin Xinyan’s inner terror out from her and

She started trembling uncontrollably.

Zong Jinghao lowered his head to look at her tearful face, and his gaze seemed to darken. “I’m not a predator who’s looking to

and

Jinghao did not say anything in

was soaked and she still

the tears on her face and said gently,

finish his

had initiated