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Bared To You Chapter Seventy Five
Maximillian This was harder than any battle I’d fought with the world, because this was against myself—against my instinct to shut everyone out. But for her… for the chance to hold her fragile heart in my hands, I had to try. She was worth the risk, worth the unraveling of the walls I’d built so carefully.And yet, a voice whispered inside me: What if you break her too? What if your love isn’t enough to keep her safe from you? I clenched my jaw, forcing the thought down. No...this was all I could do. To give her my truth, raw and unpolished, and pray she wouldn’t see me as the monster I sometimes feared I was.“You… you are really in love with me?” she asked hesitantly, her voice softer, uncertain.“Yes. Madly, irrevocably in love with you.” I took a slow step toward her, closing the distance inch by inch. “Your infuriating attitude and all. You’re my heartbeat, Edwina. My world revolves around you.”“I… I don’t know what to say,” she murmured, her gaze dropping to her feet.I reach
Bared To You Chapter Seventy Four
Maximillian One whole week. That’s how long I waited—every second dragging like a century—for Edwina to storm into my life, guns blazing, demanding to know why I’d paid her father’s hospital bills. I’d pictured it a dozen different ways: her shouting, her crying, her refusing to look at me. And in every version, I couldn’t decide whether I dreaded it or longed for it.When it became clear that either she didn’t know yet or didn’t know where I was living now, I let out a breath I didn’t realize I’d been holding. Relief seeped into my bones, loosening the tension that had wound me so tight. For the first time in days, I allowed myself to slip into the chaos of my new life as a teacher.Homework to grade, books to read—things I hadn’t done since my own school days. I even squeezed in a few movies, the kind I used to ignore. On this particular day, I’d decided to catch up on the episodes of a series I’d abandoned before the accident. My little escape from reality.Everything was ready:
Bared To You Chapter Seventy Three
Edwina I paced the length of the waiting room, my shoes tapping against the tiled floor like an accusation with every step. God, please… let him get better. Please. My heart felt like it was stuck in my throat, and my stomach was in knots. It was all my fault. Everything was my fault.If I hadn’t screamed at him. If I hadn’t thrown those words in his face—words I couldn’t even remember now but knew were laced with venom—he wouldn’t be lying in there. On an operating table. Fighting for his life.How could I? How could I let my anger push me that far?A part of me thought I deserved this punishment. It would serve me right if none of my sisters ever spoke to me again. If they looked at me with the same accusing eyes Mom had. Maybe they should. Maybe I was nothing but the troublemaker everyone had always said I was.Dad had been wheeled into the operating room for a bypass surgery. Surgery we didn’t even have the money to pay for. That fact stabbed at me again, sharper this time. We c
Bared To You Chapter Seventy Two
Edwina Not that I was hoping he’d come looking for me, but I didn’t see Max for a while—not even in church. The empty pew where he usually sat was like a hollow reminder that maybe I’d gone too far with him the last Sunday I saw him. My mind kept replaying it over and over: the way he pulled me out of the street, saving me from becoming nothing more than a road pancake, and how I, in all my brilliance, shoved his help right back in his face by ramming my fist into his gut.What kind of thank-you was that? He probably hadn’t liked it. Maybe he’d decided I wasn’t worth all the trouble. The thought stung like lemon juice on a paper cut. But wasn’t it the truth?After all, he was the Crown Prince of Mercia—a billionaire’s son with the world at his feet and an endless lineup of women who would never dare punch him for saving their lives. Me? I was just… me. Ordinary. Stubborn. Too quick to lash out when cornered.I finally forgave Steven for what he did, but our friendship had shifted in
Bared To You Chapter Seventy One
Maximillian I shifted my weight, suddenly hyperaware of how small my request sounded compared to the grandeur around me. The apartment screamed wealth, luxury, excess. But me? I wasn’t sure I wanted to drown in all that anymore.“I… I just don’t need that many people around me, Dad,” I admitted quietly, glancing down at my hands. “Back at the hotel, yeah, the staff were incompetent, but at least it was just me. No one hovering, no one trying too hard to please, no one watching me like I’m some… royal project.”“A housekeeper’s fine. Someone to keep the place in order. But maids? Servants?” I shook my head, a bitter laugh escaping me. “I don’t want to feel like I’m living in a museum.”Inside, my thoughts tumbled over themselves. I’ve been hiding for months, carving out a life that was mine, however imperfect it was. And as much as I missed home, I didn’t miss being waited on like a helpless child. I didn’t miss the suffocating sense of being observed, managed, packaged as “the Princ
Bared To You Chapter Seventy
Maximillian Edwina Danielle Jonas was a menace, pure and simple. She drove me absolutely crazy with her childish antics—her ability to poke at every nerve I had like she enjoyed it—but the truth? That same childish behavior was the very thing that made me fall for her in the first place. God help me, she was chaos wrapped in sunshine, and I was addicted. Despite all her mischief, Edwina had the most caring heart of anyone I knew. I’d been on the receiving end of it more times than I could count. Yeah, I should know. She’d held me together when I thought I’d fall apart, even if she didn’t realize it. And maybe that’s why no matter how much she exasperated me, I could never stay mad at her for long. She was my constant storm and my quiet refuge all in one.Princess Miranda, on the other hand, was becoming a thorn in my side. Scratch that—she was the thorn. She refused to take no for an answer, clinging to me like a curse I couldn’t shake. My patience was thinning by the second. My s
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