Chapter 70
Leandro walked right past her, opened the door to Valerio’s room, took a look, presumably to see Valerio peacefully asleep, and then closed the door again. He paced back and forth, approaching her then distancing himself again.
Seraphina looked up at him, took a deep breath, and said with a smile, “Your shower gel smells amazing, what’s the brand?”
As she spoke, she got a grip on the belt of Leandro’s robe and started to fiddle with it.
Leandro looked down at her actions, then looked back up with a slightly gloomy expression.
Seraphina was amused and even more reluctant to let go. “Do you really think that with Aunt Florence here, I wouldn’t dare to touch you?” Leandro finally spoke, his voice low and slightly hoarse.
Seraphina still had a smile at the corner of her mouth, “Do you, Mr. Reynolds, really want to laste the thrill of a bloody battle?”
“There’s more than one way to share a bed,” Leandro said slowly.
Seraphina’s hand movement paused for a moment as she gazed at him.
“Besides,” Leandro’s hand slowly gripped her chin, “it’s not like we haven’t tried before.”
That sentence brought back a rush of memories..
Those embarrassing and awkward past moments, buried deep in her memory, suddenly surfaced, leaving Seraphina a little breathless.
Leandro glanced at her, released her hand, and turned to leave.
Seraphina snapped back to reality and chuckled.
“How could it be the same?” Seraphina said, “After all, back then, I wasn’t as annoying to Mr. Reynolds as I am now, right?”
Leandro paused and looked back at her.
Seraphina didn’t back down, meeting his gaze provocatively.
By the time Seraphina realized how reckless she was being, she was already back in Leandro’s bed.
than one way for a man and a woman to be intimate
innocence had
she was willing to give herself to him completely, he chose the most protective way to satisfy his desires,
was she feeling then?
joyful, dazed but excited.
an intimacy just between them, a precious memory she
her dreams and memories shattered, and the secret
brought shame, and
in the past she thought she had let go of, but now she realized she hadn’t.
things. When the memories resurfaced, those seemingly disappeared memories came back to
she was even aware of it, this hatred had clouded her judgment,
usually arrogant, self–important man succumb to desire, succumb to
she found it
wasn’t worth it, but reality didn’t allow her to
was an insatiable release of
desire was exposed, it was like a flood
never
times the previous night, at this moment, all the memories of that night seemed unreachable.
as ever. Seraphina couldn’t
night, he lost
were tormented by desire, but Seraphina could hear his heavy breathing, feel his chaotic heartbeat, all
hadn’t Inst
but
Leandro still didn’t let her
down on her body, and finally
the scream, Seraphina was a bit
was in her ear, bringing her back to
only
turned
already sitting up, ready to go to the bathroom to clean himself
chuckled and kicked him lightly with
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