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CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE – SHE WAS JEALOUS

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last update Last Updated: 2024-10-01 01:52:06

With a stiffened back, Priscilla dared not make any sudden movement.

Amid the darkness, her eyes widened in the darkness.

Was he… really asleep?

He usually kept to his side of the bed. What was all the sprawling around the bed today? Was he pretending to be asleep?

Priscilla waited a moment and Frederick stopped fidgeting too. The pin-drop silence with the man’s faint breathing in the background drew out a frame of tranquility and serenity.

When she was sure that the man behind her was indeed asleep, she carefully lifted his arm, trying to move it away.

However, the action immediately resulted in murmurs coming from behind her.

And the arm rested on her waist tightened to wrap her.

What’s more, Frederick’s whole body pressed on her, his handsome face buried in her long hair, as if she was a large-sized pillow. She was imprisoned by him now.

Nestled in his embrace, Priscilla was left breathless from the suffocation while her body lay stiffened.

The faint breathing spewing between her h
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