Chapter 52 Am I A Toy (1/2)

”No... I didn't...” Suddenly tongue-tied, Essie desperately scrabbled for a coherent response to Zac's loaded question, but her brain seemed to have stopped functioning at that moment.

”The way you looked at me revealed what you were thinking. You want me.” Amusement and dark promise tinted his voice. His fingers slowly, deliberately slid down from her neck to rest on her sleep shirt placket, which was placed directly over her pounding chest. The warmth of his fingertips seemed to burn a hole in her pajamas. The heat started to burn her skin and transfer to her heart, which seemed to spontaneously combust.

”I'm sleepy,” she announced to the room at large. All of the fight drained out of her. She could only close her eyes and feign sleep.

With a mischievous smile on his lips, Zac slowly lowered his head to kiss her lightly on the lips. With him that close, Essie could smell the refreshing aroma of his body wash pervading the air that she breathed. He had always used a shower gel that smelled like magnolia flowers. The elegant, pure scent wafted from his warm skin to her nose to awaken her senses and fan the current coursing through her.

She felt dizzy and weak, and her mind was a blank. She had no strength to resist and think. Zac took advantage of Essie's stillness and kissed her lips while he skillfully undid her pajama top, one button at a time.

A draft of cold air touched her bare chest, but it

Drugged one night by her ex-boyfriend, a mysterious man took advantage of her in an ecstatic night filled with sex.

To take her revenge, she married the man, and used him.

”As long as I'm alive, I'm still his legal wife, while all of you are just his mistresses.”

She remained adamant even when he was involved in scandals with other women.

Eventually she stormed off after she learned that he had betrayed her again.But life brought her back to him a few years later, to his astonishment.

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