Seducing My Husband's Arch-enemy!의 모든 챕터: 챕터 161 - 챕터 170

Trying hard to not do as he normally would not, especially as is under these circunstances these past few days, he closes the door to his study, the sound of it as it clicks shut behind him not doing enough to distract him from the way his mind's running around.That small, almost insignificant clicking sound feels kind of final, like a period at the end of a sentence that neither of them had the courage to say out loud.Reid leans against the door for a moment, palms flat against the wood. He closes his eyes, exhales slowly through his nose, but it doesn’t help. The knot in his chest stays right where it is as it's heavy, twisting and stubborn against what his head wants him to think and accept.His heart and head are in absolute war right now, with so many unanswered questions, and even though he's being an hypocrite, it's still a pretty large, difficult pill to swallow that she'd done something that he knows nothing about, even enough to have something to laugh about with the same

In the bedroom after getting refreshed for the day and trying to put her worry heavy thoughts behind her, she ties her hair back and reaches for her blazer. The mirror catches her reflection... She has pretty sharp eyes, tired edges and her face looks a little too worn for someone who woke up barely two hours before.The kind of woman who looks like she’s holding it together by sheer will.The kind of woman who’s starting to forget what “ease” feels like.And so the worrying throughts return again... She simply wants to feel not guilty, wants to feel like she has their blessings before proceeding into marriage with him. She's been in one before and it didn't exactly turn out pretty well, she won't do another without having some backup...Downstairs again some ten minutes later, she slips her shoes on and grabs her keys. Her hand pauses at the door handle, glancing one last time toward the study door up the stairs...She could go up there and knock. She could tell him she’s heading out

e raised a hand in mock surrender. “Alright then. You want facts, here they are. Your missing ex-husband hasn’t exactly been a ghost. There’ve been movements, very discreet and subtle ones by those who have been long in the game, but movements all the same. The problem is, every trail ends the moment I get close. Whoever has him knows how to play.”Her brows furrowed. “You’re saying someone’s covering him up? After locking him up? What even is the point of that?”“I’m saying someone’s covering their tracks,” Alec corrects, taking a sip of his precious coffee. “Daniel might be alive, but he’s not free. And whoever has him is careful enough to stay off every radar, even mine.”That admission that even he is finding it hard to locate Daniel’s whereabouts hit her harder than she let on. “So after all your good and bad guy contacts, your ‘reach,’ your reputation for getting anything done, you’re telling me you’ve found nothing?”“I didn’t say nothing,” Alec said, his tone dropping an octav

Raees’s voice stays cool, even when she sees, hears and watches as Daniel fold in double from the pain, but her pulse ticks faster seeing that it looks like things might get ugly right there. “Tell your man to let him go, Steele, you’ve rough handled him again and again, isn’t it enough yet? Is to break a man who is all bones all you want to do now?” She raises an eyebrow, dropping her bag on the table and leaning on it intimidatingly, with eyes gleaming, not angrily anyway… “You said you wanted to talk business. This,” she gestures toward Daniel, “feels more like you’re setting the stage for something else. You should at least be a bad guy with integrity no?”“Oh, this is business, they say all is fair in love and war, I say all is fair in business and love, war? Meh. we’ll consider it when we get to it.” Alec says. “You came here for him, that we both know, and I won’t deny it, which is why I’m offering you what you came for.”Her brows draw together in even further suspicion. “Yo

Abel exhales slowly, shoulders dropping a whole fraction. “Damn it,” he mutters in hopeful disappointment. “Turns out to be a false alarm, a deer wandered too close to this area, which on its own, is a pretty odd sight to see. Well, it’s better a false alarm than an actual one.”Cecelia lets out a shaky laugh, finally relaxing herself too, happy because she can now talk freely. “You’re telling me we nearly had a heart attack over a deer?”He gives her a look, that faint, unreadable stare of his that says ‘don’t test me’, but there’s amusement behind it, just barely. “We are better off paranoid and suspicious of every breach than dead, so whatever you call it, I still saved your life.”“Ah, could have been a murderous deer, right?”He chuckles this time, “Looks like you never watched Train to Busan, a damn deer started it.”The words hang there for a moment, they don’t move as they slowly realize how close to one another they are in the cramped space.The soft light from the hanging mo