Chapter 258

Apart from her undoubted beauty, there was so much that he admired about this lovely woman. For instance, her ability to be brave in the face of the most dreadful adversity and not lose hope. Even now, she was putting on a brave face and not telling him anything that was happening in her life, but he knew one day he would break the wall she had built around her.

Cursing out loud, because the particular thought was angering him that she would rather face things on her own than seek help from him made him lose his sleep entirely, Gale got up, quickly and covered the duvet up over his head to block out any disturbing glimpse of light. But just as he was about to turn towards Darcy…

“Gale, wake up... I need you!”  Darcy's voice was urgent and low, right against his ear, shockingly stirring his whole body with an unknown sensation as he felt Darcy hugging his waist from behind.

For a few seconds, Gale was having trouble breathing as he had never expected Dacry to m