Chapter 121 - Hidden Foe

"I'm sorry."

She finally said but she didn't sound one bit remorseful. Instead, there was a certain eagerness in those seemly ocean eyes as her gaze zeroed on his lips before moving back to his gaze.

When he freed a hand from the support system he was relaying on, permitting him for his next act of slipping his finger underneath her chin instead, her eyes rolled shut for a brief moment and he frowned.

"I miss you could get rid of that glove." She muttered, before she opening her eyes, a sly and suggestive smile making it up to her face.

He wasn't in the mood for her little tease game tonight, one that she seemed to very much be in the mood for. He knew how it would end, in yet again another painful rejection, leaving him hot and bothered, while she allowed the promise she had made to herself to remain and an unbreakable wall between them.

Besides, he still had that maid to question.

When his frown didn't vanish, she grumbled.