Chapter 168

He leans into me to kiss my lips quickly, almost tripping me up in the process, and removes his hand from mine to lasso an arm around me instead. Pulling me in against him and hugging me in a way that tells me he needs it. My touch is a balm for him, and he’s aching all over from that ugly scene. I can’t imagine how emotionally traumatic that was for him, and the aggressive nature he squeezes me tells me he is far from getting it out yet. He’s wound up, inwardly agitated.

“To be fair, I only got the English bits, but I can imagine it was along the same lines of what she did let me understand.”

“Yeah, common, cheap, whore, unworthy, foreigner, gold digger, manipulating devious tramp… you get the gist.” He frowns and throws a dark look over his shoulder back at the house, anger stirring in the pits of that mind, but I’m piqued by one word.

“Cheap? Fucking cheap? Are you kidding me? This dress probably cost more than her entire fucking outfit. I have expensive tastes