Chapter 32 - Taboo

After a quite enjoyable meal at the restaurant, Moriah and Ethan retired to their bedroom.

Moriah kept swatting Ethan's hand. "Keep your hands to yourself, Mr Miller!"

"Mr Miller can't keep his hands off from Mrs Miller," Ethan teased her and turned her to face him.

"Why are you still using Chen as your surname?" Ethan likes it when people call her Mrs Miller. "Mrs Miller suits you."

His words brought a flurry of mixed emotion to Moriah. Confused and scared with her own emotion, Moriah whimpered.

"You didn't like to be called Mrs Miller?" Her refusal to be called Mrs Miller unnerved him.

"No," she hugged him and buried her face in his chest.

"Why are you crying again?" Frustrated, he took a long breath and released it slowly.

"Aren't you going to answer me, wife?" he asked again after a long silence.

When she still wasn't answering after a long agonizing silence, Ethan realized that she was already asleep as she was breathing evenly.

Ethan was bothered by Moriah's behavior. S