When the Contract Marriage Ended, He Stayed

Chapter 81: Who’s Sleeping on the Sofa?

If Raina Lowell had arranged for my release before Aiden Xavier came to Freyburg, she wouldn’t have been exposed, and Aiden wouldn’t have known she was the one behind it. But what good would that have done her?

Hazel Hawthorne could never figure it out. She understood why Raina would desperately try to keep Aiden Xavier in Kenport, not wanting him to come looking for her. Hazel could sympathize with that; if the man she liked ran off late at night to find another woman so far away, she would have tried to stop him too.

Unless...

But that was completely impossible. Hazel Hawthorne subconsciously glanced at Aiden Xavier out of the corner of her eye. ’Is Raina Lowell trying to test something? Is she testing me, or is she testing Aiden?’

’Testing me makes even less sense. So she must be testing Aiden. But what is she testing him for?’ Hazel felt like her head was going to explode from overthinking it.

Hazel closed her eyes, once again trying to put herself in Raina Lowell’s shoes. ’If she was testing Aiden, what exactly was she hoping to find? A man worries about a woman because... he likes her.’

Hazel’s eyes flew open. ’Does Raina Lowell think Aiden Xavier likes me?’

’No, no, no. Why would Raina think that? There’s no reason. She knows better than anyone how well Aiden treats her. A suspicion like that is completely baseless. Besides, Aiden doesn’t even like me.’

’But... if Aiden doesn’t like me, then why did he rush all the way to Freyburg in such a panic when he heard I was in trouble? He didn’t even care about Raina.’

When she saw Aiden, she had hugged him excitedly and said he was worried about her. He hadn’t denied it. He didn’t deny it even when Holly Shaw said it, either.

Hazel felt if she kept thinking about it, her head really would explode.

Seeing Hazel lost in thought, Aiden Xavier got up and went into the bathroom. After a moment, the sound of running water pulled Hazel back to reality. She stared at the closed bathroom door and muttered, "Could it be... that Aiden Xavier really does like me?"

Aiden likes me or not. It’s the fact that he’s showering here. Does that mean he’s planning to stay

the morning. He had rushed over from Kenport and definitely hadn’t gotten any rest on the way. Then he’d been

I kick him out now, wouldn’t that

all the way

A few bright, transparent water droplets still clung to his shoulders, while others dripped from the tips of his wet hair onto his toned

with just a towel around his waist, was like

Hazel staring at him the moment he came out. He casually dried his hair with

was such a casual movement, yet he made it look

’He’s unreal!’

Aiden tossed the towel he’d just

the towel

get another room now, it’ll just let Holly

benefit, and he was the one who came to me. But now, listening to him, it’s as if I’m

he be the one

You can sleep on the

way for you, spent the whole night dealing with this mess, and you want

giving Hazel another glance, Aiden lay down on the bed. He wouldn’t even sleep on the sofa at home;

genuinely curious about how her

sleeping on the sofa, then neither was

for only a few seconds, her exhaustion finally won out over her reluctance. She climbed into bed, lay on the very edge with her back to Aiden, and deliberately pulled

the hotel didn’t have a spare

heat was intense. Hazel felt inexplicably hot and had to stick

the window cast a faint glow in the room. Hazel gazed at the bright moon, her thoughts once again drifting to why Aiden had come to