The Ex and Her Riches

Chapter 352

Gwendolyn scowled at the abrupt manner she had been roused and turned to face the other side.

Jonah kept knocking, seemingly intent on hammering down her door if she did not answer it soon.

Irritated by the racket, Gwendolyn flung aside her quilt. She slipped on her slippers and donned a thick sleeping gown before answering the door.

“What does he want this time?” she demanded, glaring at Jonah with a look of irritated disgust.

“Mr. Lund isn’t messing around this time, Ms. Harris. He visited a bar this afternoon and spent the day drinking. He even sent us away. When I went back for him earlier tonight, I found him drunk as a skunk with your name on his lips. So, the only thing I could do was to bring him here to you.”

Gwendolyn was impassive. Cold, even. “Give him something to sober up, then, or get him a doctor who would give him a jab. What good will it do sending him to me? I’m not a doctor.”

She was about to shut the door after her speech, but Jonah threw himself against the frame. “Please see him. He would feel much better in your presence.”

Gwendolyn’s frostiness did not dissipate. “I’m under house arrest because of him. He wouldn’t let me out of this house. What if he sobers up tomorrow and accuses me of misbehaving? Wouldn’t that be unfair to me?”

“Uh…”

Jonah was conflicted. He gave the matter a moment of serious thought before suggesting, “Why don’t I bring him to your room?”

“No way! I can’t stand the stench of alcohol on him. You’d better get back to Alzer Palace.”

Jonah fell silent.

“Gwen. Gwen…”

voice, slurred by booze and laced with melancholy, traveled up the

to him for you tomorrow. You wouldn’t want him to be keeping

her best to conceal her irritation. “Wake the maid,” she instructed.

“At once.”

down the

pulled the thick, furry sleeping gown tighter around her and followed him down

His cheeks were

freshener to mask the stench of alcohol in the

times with the sole of her slipper, trying

up, Charles! This isn’t a place for you to spend the night. Get lost back to your Alzer

eyelashes twitched. The haze of

the sound of Gwendolyn’s voice and caught hold of a

in her eyes, she snatched her

“Let go!”

firmly.

coursing through her head at the thought

the maid, Jonah had

her hand, she gave him two merciless

two smacks, dealt in quick

awake. Only then did he

cheeks, tender with

“Gwen?”

with a bold glare. “Are you aware that you’re disrupting my sleep by turning up here in the middle of the night

head, pretending not to hear her. Suddenly, he

the handprints on his cheeks, he looked as

“You can drop your act. Get

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