My Contract Love Story
she spat, tears streaming down her cheeks as she glared at him with a burning fury.
A flicker of something unreadable crossed Adrian's eyes. Before she could react further, he surprised her by pulling her close, his thumb brushing away the tears staining her face.
Adrian's gaze swept over Ashleigh, lingering on the tear streaks that painted her face with a strange vulnerability. Her lips, bitten raw from nervous anticipation, seemed fuller somehow. A dark memory flickered in his mind – Ashleigh, intoxicated at the resort, leaning carefree against another man. The audacity of it – so carefree in someone else's arms while she was so determined to flee him at every turn, and now, the raw hatred
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