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.”

you to do it. With that, he stretched out his arms, and his loosely worn shirt gaped open, revealing a glimpse

into a sly smile, his Adam’s apple sharp and bobbing with his breath, almost as

many times Dorothy saw this, her heart would still race, and her

stop fooling around?

“No way.”

her ear, where a tiny mole resided, and

it for a second!

when it came to these matters, he was full of lies, with “just one last time” being the phrase she heard most often.

you can sit and bathe.”

Clearly, he had

if I faint from

“Doubtful, but okay.”

placed it on the buttons of his

man, really! Dorothy rolled her eyes but helped him with the remaining buttons and took off his

were still visible, streaked with blood and the faint yellow of iodine, front and back, due to the through–and–through injury.

reached out to touch. “It must hurt… Did it hurt a lot that day?”

felt a

to me!*

forcing her to meet his eyes. “I’m not

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