Semua Bab Condemned Wife's Compliance: Bab 31 - Bab 40

As they walked into the living room, Adrea immediately took note of the company. Sanne was seated on one of the couches. She had her long red hair in a single braid at the top of her head. She smiled at Adrea as she walked in.“Hi Adrea!” Sanne didn’t waste time greeting her. “Welcome to the team,” she then added with a two-finger salute to Adrea.Adrea smiled at her as she said, “Thanks, Sanne. How are you?”“Never been better,” Sanne replied, and then her blue eyes went to the man who was sitting opposite her. He had twisted his torso so that he could get a better look at Adrea.“Hello,” Adrea said to the man, and he tipped an invisible hat at her, a warm smile on his face.“That’s Moreau,” Aris said to her.“Despite what Aris said,” Sanne interjected, “he’s no protector of virtues.”Aris grinned and Moreau chuckled. Adrea pinked and kept her expression blank. She wasn’t quite sure how to respond to that and so she decided not to.“Why are we here?” she asked instead.“Knights must k

The game was over. Adrea did not want to go home just yet.Moreau put the cards at the centre of the table and slid out of his seat with panther-like grace.He looked at Aris and said, “See you at the tournament.”Aris nodded and asked, “Still refuse to fly with me?”“I make my own way,” Moreau said as he gave Aris a look Adrea could not decipher.He then looked at Adrea and said, “See you there, Adrea Galanis.”She nodded at him and then watched him stalk out of the room.“Did you bring your papers?” Aris asked her, and she turned her attention back to him.“Yes,” she said, as she began to go through her purse for her passport and driving licence.Once she got them, she extended them to him and then watched him walk towards the door. He paused when he got there and turned to look at her over his shoulder.“Come along,” he said.She nodded and walked towards him. He opened the door and stood aside so that she could walk past him. She hesitated.“I won’t bite,” Aris stated defensively,

He checked his phone for the third time and still could not believe it. She had blocked him.Why? Because she was angry with him, or because she still loved Rafael?He hoped she had moved on from his brother. He was not as good as she thought. He was not as clean. He was trying to show her that. Rafael was not an angel. He was taking advantage of her and the Galanis estate. He was not her knight in shining armour.But Felix could be that for her. He could do better by her and be her prince. She just needed to see things under his light. She just needed to be receptive to the narrative that was his reality for her. She was his soulmate. His perfect fit. They clicked. She knew that.So why not lock in and be together forever? Why couldn’t she see that as the ultimate solution?He had heard her talking about starting a family and wanting children soon, and he had panicked. The image of her swollen with his brother’s spawn had nearly driven him crazy. That had been his call to action. He

This was one of the few big wins Felix felt he had against his brother. He let himself enjoy it. Rafael, who had always been at the top of everything, was under his foot for once in his life. No one was going to take this from Felix. And he got it because of Adrea. He had been right about her from the moment he first met her.He remembered the first time he saw her. She had been standing with her father as he spoke to a group of men who were gathered together. He had seen the way she held herself. Like a queen among her subjects. Her head high, back and shoulders straight, eyes coolly taking everything and everyone in and lighting up when she smiled. She had been young. It had been apparent she was young. A fresh sixteen or seventeen who looked even younger. Yet she had not been out of place. She had not stood on the sidelines and, more interestingly, she had not hung out with the other young women in the room.As smartly as she had been dressed in a fashionable lavender cocktail dres

Aris had put himself and Adrea in first class seats. The flight itself had been uneventful and Adrea had spent some of it playing blackjack on the inflight console. When she had gotten bored, she had switched to a movie. Somewhere in the middle of the movie, she had fallen asleep and had woken up to Aris gently telling her that they were landing.She had gotten into her purse for her compact case and had used the attached mirror to check her face. She had been fine. The touchdown had been smooth and they had been let out of the plane first. Customs had not been an issue and then they had gone to pick up their luggage.When Adrea realised that they were going to the basement parking lot instead of out through the front, she was slightly taken aback.“Are we not getting a cab or something?” she asked Aris.He looked at her and smiled.“I took the liberty of renting a car,” he told her.“Oh,” Adrea said as the elevator came to a stop.She did not sound convinced.The doors began to slide