“Of course,” Lauren answered.


    “It’s different from just liking me as a person,” Landon said, clearing his throat. He exined in


    embarrassment. “It’s… the kind of feelings that Jasper has for Alyssa.”


    Her clear, bright eyes wavered. She toyed with the intricate button on his dark shirt and stammered, “I-I


    don’t know.”


    He silently sighed and smiled wryly at her. “Alright. Go sleep now.”


    “But I like to be with you. I can’t do anything right when you’re not at home because I’m worried. I’ll wait


    for you toe home. Time flies when I’m with you. Looking at you makes me happy,” she mumbled,


    her


    eyes half-closed.


    His breath grew heavy, and his palms started sweating as he held her.


    She confessed, “One day, you came homete. I pretended to be asleep when you checked on me in


    the bedroom, but I had been awake all along.”


    His chest tightened. That night, he and Angelina had gone out to get rid of two dissenters in Harper


    Group


    who had turned out to be Preston’s men.


    He had always presented himself as a cheerful and outgoing man, hiding his dark and heartless side


    from


    her.


    She pressed her lips together and said, “I smelled a strong stench of blood on you. You had a wound


    on your hand-I felt it when you touched my forehead.”


    Then, she picked up his hand and removed the ck leather glove from his right hand. The wounds on


    his knuckles and fingertips might have healed, but the scars remained.


    “Landon, I’m worried you’ll get into danger out there. I’m so worried…” She felt a burst of pain in her


    heart.


    Hershes fluttered when she kissed his wounds.


    “I don’t know if that counts as having feelings for you.”


    His heart trembling, Landon finally lost control of his desire and pinned her underneath him.


    Lauren moaned gently but wasn’t too shocked. She had never been intimate with any man in her 22


    years.


    of life.


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    Landon was her first, and she was slowlying to embrace him. She didn’t seem to have any other


    “Lauren, please don’t tempt me. I’m scared I might lose control of myself,” he warned her, his breathing


    intensifying at the sight of her rosy face. It was evident that he desired her.


    “Do you want a kiss?”


    She obediently wrapped her arms around his neck and pouted her lips. “I-I’m ready for it!”


    His eyes burned with desire. “No. I might go further than that. It’ll make you a woman.”


    Thest time, he had shared a long kiss with Lauren at the hospital but had suppressed his urge to


    take


    her.


    Afterward, he had gone home and taken a two-hour-long bath to calm down, almost falling sick from it.


    Not only was he an


    He didn’t know if he could hold back if subjected to the same temptation twice. Not only


    ordinary man with sexual needs, but his libido was very high.


    “I-I don’t know…” she mumbled through her watery eyes, a little confused.


    Finally, he let out a sigh and bit her on the neck. As if that wasn’t enough, he gave her some hickeys.


    She chuckled and wriggled underneath her, covering her face as she said, “It’s ticklish!”


    He rolled onto his back and grumbled, “It’s ticklish to you, but hellish to me.”


    He hugged her tight and mumbled, ‘Lauren, I’ll wait for the day you’refortable with me.”