บททั้งหมดของ SWEET TEMPTATION: บทที่ 61 - บทที่ 69

CHAPTER 61​WILL​"Oh, how romantic! If I’d known we were feeling sentimental, I would’ve brought flowers." We both look up at the new intruder.​"Gideon?" We both look equally bewildered by his arrival.​"Should I be worried that you look so shocked by my presence? You’re not going to faint, are you?" he says, making himself right at home on the sofa.​"Get your feet off the coffee table, Gideon." He ignores me. "What are you doing here?"​"Can't I see my friend? I just came to see how things are going, but seeing as this guy here"—he points to Matt—"was practically kissing you, I’ll assume everything is fine."​"I’ve got plenty of kisses for you too, Gideon, no need to get jealous." Matt walks toward him, but Gideon raises a hand in warning. "Damn, you’re so moody. And I thought Will was the grumpy one."​"Well?"​"Everything is fine. I... I told her about that night."​"Really? And did you tell her about Emily?"​"Well..."​"Vai, vai, vai, ma guarda chi è qui, i miei bastardi prefe

CHAPTER 63​WILL​"And I’d like you to keep working with me for many more years, so don't hide anything about your daughter from me again. If she needs you, you must tell me immediately and not wait for things to get more complicated, understood?"​"I’m sorry. It won't happen again." I place a hand on his shoulder to let him know it’s fine.​"Let's go pick up Carol, then we’ll head to Brighton, but I want to make a quick stop first." He nods and accelerates.​I wanted everything to go well with her, though for the first time in a long while, I felt nervous just thinking about what I have to do. I needed to secure some kind of guarantee that she would never leave me.​When Carlos pulls over at the curb, Carol was already walking toward us. I jump out quickly to greet her; she throws herself into my arms and buries her face in my neck.​"I missed you so much."​"I missed you more, Heaven." I kiss her head, then she lifts her face and offers me her lips so I can kiss them, and I do.​"Yo

CHAPTER 65​WILL​"Silly. This means the problem of bringing Corinne here is solved. She can stay here." Looking at it from that perspective, it seemed fine to me.​"That sounds good. Although she can always stay with us, Carol. She’s a child who needs supervision."​"I love it when you get all protective."​We finished eating in silence, though that question I’d asked her in the car kept circling my mind, dying to escape my lips again. I know she doesn't want to marry me, but I crave for her to do so.​I show her the entire apartment; even though it’s all on one floor, it’s very vast and spacious. We go out to the balcony to watch the sunset that was already beginning to fade.​"I was starting my university career when I met Emily. She was the most beautiful and intelligent girl I had ever seen on campus. It was so easy to approach her and talk to her." Out of the corner of my eye, I see Carol watching me with perplexity and curiosity. I keep my gaze lost on the beach; it’s easier to

​EPILOGUE: PART 1​CAROL​Three months have already passed since I told Will I would marry him. Even now, looking at the small silver ring with a heart-cut diamond on my left hand, I couldn't believe I was getting married in a month. Marrying the man I had always longed for, the man who would soon be my husband. Now, I looked back and couldn't remember when it all began, or at what point our lives changed completely.​With the help of Susan and Corinne—the latter having now moved in with us—I was organizing everything at a breakneck pace. My parents were coming a week before the wedding. By the way, the news shocked Mom; she can't accept that I'm marrying someone so much older than me, nearly her age. Other than that, she was thrilled to know it was Will I’d be marrying. Dad had a long phone conversation with Will; he gave me his blessing for my union with the man I love.​I also sent the wedding invitations to Will's parents; although he initially refused, he eventually gave in. I ha

EPILOGUE: PART 3​CAROL​Since I already know the way to the doctor’s office, I don’t ask for directions; I simply walk to the door, which is slightly ajar, and knock before entering.​"Good afternoon, Doctor Kate."​"Hello, Carol. How have you been?" She gives me a kiss on the cheek. Kate is a blonde woman with blue eyes, very beautiful for her age.​"Very well, Doctor, thank you."​"And this man is...?" she asks.​"My fiancé, Will Ashford." Will shakes hands with the doctor. She takes a seat in the chair behind her desk, and we do the same.​"Tell me, what brings you here?"​"Well, you see, I wanted to know if I could switch to the injection instead of continuing with the pills."​"What problem have you had with the pills? Any reaction or something like that?"​"She forgets to take them."​"Will!" I shoot him a look warning him to shut up. This is exactly why I didn't want him to come with me.​"You forget to take your birth control, Carol?"​"To be honest, yes. I forget to take it