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…”

and laced with melancholy, traveled up the stairs from the living

to him for you tomorrow. You wouldn’t want him to be keeping you awake, I’m

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

“At once.”

down the

tighter around her and followed him

was sprawled on the couch. His cheeks were flushed with

organic freshener to mask the stench of alcohol in the living

Charles, she prodded him in the knee several times with the sole of her slipper, trying to wake

a place for you to spend the night. Get lost back to your Alzer Palace after

eyelashes twitched. The haze of intoxication

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

conceal the disgust in her eyes, she snatched her garment out

“Let go!”

on firmly. He

fury coursing through her head at the thought of seeing Nico covered in blood from the torture

left to wake the

him two merciless slaps across his chiseled

dealt in quick succession, rang out

with pain, Charles became thoroughly awake. Only then did he loosen his grip on her shirt and sat up on the

head and stroked his flaming cheeks, tender with pain, while gazing slowly up

“Gwen?”

she regarded him with a bold glare. “Are you aware that you’re disrupting my sleep

not to hear

despair. Coupled with the handprints on his cheeks, he looked as if he had

fall, yet she remained unmoved. “You can drop your act. Get out. You stink so badly that

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