wn, but she wasn't about to let him know that. Her heart hammered in her chest as she said mildly, "Raymond, we signed an agreement

ged." Raymond's tone was nonchalant, but the way he towered o

pe to get ahead of himself and jump to conclusions; he

of of it, when she, the person who had been in the hotel room the entire time, didn't even know what had actually happened? It was all a hazy blu

e, took out his phone and showed it to her. It w

is arms, and her heart almost stopped when she recognized her own features. Horrified, she slapped the phone out of Raymond's hand and sho

he had. She wasn't going to

gh she had been taken back to the family, she was unloved by her family. She had thought she had finally found her place when she me

a, but the titl

hated he

outburst. But he retrieved his phone without comment, his attitude relaxed a

u stop all this nonsense about gettin

ears. Haven't you had enough? Aren't you satisfied? Must you torture me for the rest of m

ay of raw, unfilter

gentle but determined. "You

the century. He slowly got back into the car, lit a cigarette, and rested his elbow on the open car window. He didn't

d softly, "Raymond, I know you can tell me apart from my sister. I have a place in your hea

warmth of his skin and the beating of his heart under her palm. Tears welled in her eyes; in that

, your heart's beati

d her away without warning. The cigarette in his hand grazed

neck and flinched. The pain

ray. He lifted Ella's hair away from her neck, and saw that the ci

at that. An unsightly scar on her n

but they had only been intimate once, and Raymond had gone to extreme lengths to avoid her ever sin

o pay for the warmth of his touch on her skin, she woul

in her delight. She hugged her husband and s

ned to the chauffeur and sai

the hospital?" Ella

wrong with your head." Raymond's tone was sa

ance she would be able to turn the situation around, and she wasn'

sant mood. The doctor disinfected her wound, wrote her a prescription for

ynecologist want to see her becaus

allowed the nurse to steer her to the gynecology d

de the gynecology department. They saw Raymond an

s pocket. He put his other hand around her

n as she saw Raymond enter, she said loudl

reaking into a wrinkly smile. She put her pen down and said warmly, "Raymond! I didn't recog

her favorite nephew. She looked Ella over with the eyes of a calculating hawk for a long moment before the

embarrassment. She said

e Xia family; they didn't like her, and made no attempt to hide the fact that she wasn't welcome.

d had had a sudden change of heart, and wanted a baby with her. Or perhaps he was feeling guilty about the way he had treated her in the last two years, and was now trying to make up for it with a show of co

Lora takes her job so seriously. I was so afraid of annoying her I didn't dare say anything to her the enti

d her the report as Ella fastened her

t dropped it. She was pregnant. She read

that p

with Raymond in t

ai

rt down and looked at Raymond with her best attempt at a calm, dignified expression. "Raymond, this hospital visit wasn't about

vorce agreement to her, his handsome face stony and devoid of all emotion. "Ella