Chapter 540

Every time she tried to close her eyes, Everett would deliberately ease up his grip, then jolt her back to alertness, insisting she keep her eyes open to watch him.

Several times, Dorothy bit him hard in frustration, but he seemed impervious to pain and even chuckled in response!

With a mock glare, Dorothy huffed and got up to run a bath.

Everett was a bit of a neat freak, so she took extra care to clean the bathtub thoroughly, wiping everything down before finally turning on the taps.

Before she could finish, she suddenly felt arms envelop her from behind!

She paused for a second, then with a sigh, turned around.

“What now?”

“Help me with my shirt, will you?”

Dorothy pushed him gently. “Your hands aren’t broken.”

it. With that, he stretched out his arms, and his loosely worn shirt gaped open,

with his breath, almost as

matter how many times Dorothy saw this, her heart would still

you stop fooling around? I’m

“No way.”

resided, and spoke in a husky voice, “Where are you running off to? I’m just taking a bath.”

buy it for

when it came to these matters, he was full of lies, with “just one

ready, you can sit and

old was he to still need company? Clearly, he had other

if I faint

“Doubtful, but okay.”

just a bath.” Everett caught her hand and placed it on the buttons of his shirt. “Unbutton this

rolled her eyes but helped him with

wounds were still visible, streaked with blood and the faint yellow of iodine, front and back, due to the

reached out to touch. “It must hurt… Did it hurt a

felt

lying to me!*

her to meet his eyes. “I’m not lying; it didn’t hurt.”

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