Chapter 17\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 17\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tristan deliberately kept teasing Genevieve, refusing to give her what she wanted.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He caught her earlobe between his teeth, his voice low against her skin. \u201cBeg me.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Genevieve hooked an arm around his neck and pushed herself hard against him. \u201cBe good, and listen. Give it to me.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
1\/2\u00a0<\/p>\n
By the next morning, Genevieve woke with soreness still lingering in her body.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It felt like she had been taken apart and put back together, every inch of her still echoing with the night before.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She forced her eyes open, her focus sharpening little by little, until a sharply defined, handsome sleeping face came into view.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tristan?\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tristan Hale!\u00a0<\/p>\n
Her mind blanked for a split second.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She turned her head, and her gaze swept across the floor, where clothes were scattered everywhere. That shredded red dress was the most blinding thing of all.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Fragmented memories came rushing back to her all at once.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She realized that she had been the one who had started everything.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She was done for. It was the only thing she could think about.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The last time she\u2019d forced a kiss on him on the rooftop, she could still claim it was an accident, but this time\u2026 How was she supposed to call it an accident when she\u2019d ended up sleeping with him?\u00a0<\/p>\n
She was still Zachary\u2019s wife, at least on paper.\u00a0<\/p>\n
If a third person found out about this, she had no idea how far it could spiral.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Genevieve wanted to smash her head into the wall.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She glanced at the man beside her, still asleep, and decided she couldn\u2019t afford to care about her aching body anymore. She had to leave immediately.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She held her breath, lifted a corner of the blanket, and was just about to slide out of bed when a large hand suddenly clamped around her arm and yanked her back.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAh!\u201d Genevieve cried out as her balance gave way and she tumbled back onto the soft mattress.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A second later, Tristan rolled over, his tall frame pinning her down completely.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He was awake. There was a drowsy fog in his eyes that somehow made him even more dangerous.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The heat from his exposed skin seeped through the thin covers, and the faint contact made her breath hitch. Her face flared hot with embarrassment.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWell\u2026 maybe we should get dressed first and talk this through?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tristan looked at her with something that wasn\u2019t quite a smile. \u201cWhat do you want to talk about?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
She choked on the question, and her thoughts turned into a mess.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Talk about what, exactly?\u00a0<\/p>\n
Talk about her cheating while she was still married, or talk about him sleeping with the woman who was his brother\u2019s wife in\u00a0<\/p>\n
X CLOSE\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 17\u00a0<\/p>\n
name?\u00a0<\/p>\n
2\/2\u00a0<\/p>\n
When she didn\u2019t answer, his fingertips traced lightly along her collarbone-not quite a touch, yet impossible to ignore-and his voice dropped even lower. \u201cDon\u2019t tell me you\u2019re planning to run off now.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Genevieve tore into him in her mind.\u00a0<\/p>\n
So, he knew he wasn\u2019t supposed to touch her.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She had obviously been drugged. Shouldn\u2019t his first reaction have been to rush her to a hospital? Instead, he\u2019d gone along\u00a0<\/p>\n
with it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The more she thought about it, the more she realized that it wasn\u2019t all on her.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She straightened herself, gathering her courage, and stared him down. \u201cLast night wasn\u2019t just on me. We were both at fault.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tristan let out a low laugh. Then, he lifted his hand and gave her thigh a light slap.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Even through the blanket, the sound was sharp and unmistakable.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Genevieve went rigid.\u00a0<\/p>\n
His voice dropped low, laced with amusement. \u201cWas that loud enough?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Act Fast: Free Bonus Time is Running Out!\u00a0<\/p>\n
Claim\u00a0<\/p>\n
X\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 17\u00a0 Chapter 17\u00a0 Tristan deliberately kept teasing Genevieve, refusing to give her what she wanted.\u00a0 He caught her earlobe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-you-chose-her-so-i-married-better"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}