his arms, comforting me:
“Dont be afraid. My parents are open–minded people.”
“Besides, Liam has a girlfriend now too
Mrs. Blackwood gave me a very thick red envelope.
She pulled me to sit in the living room and chatted non–stop.
Liam arrived with Fiona just in time for dinner.
At the dinner table, he kept attentively serving Fiona dishes while secretly glaring at me.
I found it very amusing. Did he still expect me to be jealous?
Declan put the crab meat he had picked out on the plate in front of me, earning a tease from Mrs. Blackwood:
“This is the first time I’ve seen you take such meticulous care of a girl at the dinner table.”
mom can rest easy. I was almost worried you were planning to be a bachelor for life.
Now m
Declan looked at me and smiled gently:
“It’s my
first time pursuing a girl. I’m afraid I’m not doing well enough.
“Mom, dad, can you go to Aria’s family to propose marriage?”
1 want to marry her as soon as possible.”
Bang!
Liam across the table crushed the wine glass in his hand.
But he was ignored by everyone.
Mrs. Blackwood said:
7:00 AM
“Alright, let’s choose an auspicious date. Your father and I will go in person.”
“Aria, ask your parents when they’re free.”
Liam suddenly stood up. “Tm fullf”
Once again, he was ignored by everyone.
Inodded with a blushing heart: “Okay”
That night, Mrs. Blackwood asked me to stay over
In the middle of the night, I went downstairs for water.
I saw Liam sitting drunk and dazed in the living room.
Lignored him and was about to return to his brother’s room after getting water.
But Liam blocked my way and said with red eyes:
“Aria, I didn’t touch Fiona on last night’s full moon.
I coldly said: “That has nothing to do with me.
But Liam wouldn’t let me pass:
Tontit ridiculous? I thought I’d be satisfied after getting Fiona.”
“But last night, with such a good opportunity, I hesitated even though marking her would make her my lifelong, sole mate. My mind was full of you all night.”
“It turns out that getting something too easily and losing it carelessly is the most painful:
He opened his arms, wanting to hug me.
In the
e past, I would have nestled into his embrace without him even asking.
Now I took two steps back, hurting his eyes.
He wasn’t resigned and tried to forcefully hug me.
His voice even carried a hint of sobbing
“How did I lose you?”
“These two months, I’ve looked at my phone countless times every day”
“I didn’t want to admit it, but I had to. I longed for you to cling to me like before, even sharing photos of wildflowers by the roadside with me.”
“But no matter how long I waited, I couldn’t get a single message from you.”
I hated his self–pity of cherishing only after losing.
I took the glass in my hand and splashed it directly in his face:
“Sobered up now?”
Liam grabbed my wrist
“Arla, will you look back at me once?”
“I don’t believe you can just forget Lour lifelong feelings from childhood to adulthood.”
“Even I can’t do it. How can you let go so easily?”
7:00 AM
“Please, stop pretending. Forgive me, let’s start over.”
“Let go of her!” A cold, angry voice came from the stairs on the second floor.
11
In a blink, Declan came down the stairs.
He landed a hard punch on Liam’s miserable face.
Then he dragged Liam by the arm and threw him into the swimming pool in the courtyard.
Declan stood towering over the edge of the pool:
“Sobered up now?
“If that’s not enough, I’ll throw you into the Pacific Ocean
Liam cried and shouted in the pool:
“Brother, why do you have to fight me for Aria?”
“Without you, she would never leave me for life!
“Because you don’t deserve hort”
“If you dare to keep thinking about your sister–in–law, don’t blame me for kicking you out of the family!”
Declan, who had just been elected werewolf king last month, was not just someone’s son or someone’s brother. If he really got serious, even if Liam wanted to rebel, he’d have to swallow it!
He also told the bodyguards who had rushed over:
“Watch the young master! Let him cool off in the pool all night and don’t let him out!”
I ran out with a cost to drape over him.
Instead, Declan put the coat on me and held me in his arms:
“Don’t regret it. Let’s go back to our room.
I wrapped my arms around his lean waist, pinching his sexy abs.
“I won’t regret it
“Your body is a hundred times better than Liam’s
“I want to keep touching you.”
Declan’s gaze deepened, surging with passion.
Suddenly he picked me up in a princess carry, staring at some marks on my neck and grinding his teeth:
“Still not satisfied from last night? You dare to tempt me like this?”
Thinking of last night, my cheeks burned hot enough to catch fire.
Earning a low laugh from Declan,
He carried me back to the room, his steps getting faster and faster.
Back in the bedroom, I wrapped my arms around his neck and coaxed:
Declan, tell me, how many years have you been secretly in love with me?”
Declan cupped my face, his kisses falling on my neck:
“I don’t know.”
“By the time I realized it, my heart was already bewitched.”
“But you and Liam were so close since childhood, I never dared to hope for anything.”
“Until that year when I found you in the snow, not breathing.”
“I felt like the sky was falling and the earth was shattering.
“Liam wasn’t willing to save you, but I couldn’t imagine how dark a world without you would be. Even if marking you meant I could only secretly think of you for life from the shadows, I was willing!
I straddled him:
“So, if I hadn’t taken the initiative, you would never have fought for me, right?
“If your bodyguard hadn’t called me, how long were you planning to endure?”
Declan closed his eyes and thought about it probably feeling scared in hindsight.
Til give all the bodyguards a year–end bonus later.
I said: “Their salaries must be doubled too.
“Alright, I’ll listen to my wife.
The next day, several bodyguards came to thank me.
They also secretly shared some little secrets about how Declan used to pine for me.
12
Soon, Mr. and Mrs. Blackwood went to my family to propose marriage.
Declan and I set our wedding date for early summer.
On the day we were taking wedding photos, Fiona took the initiative to find me.
She asked me out for coffee.
im with me.”
Her face was haggard: “Liam broke up
I said: “You didn’t like him anyway.
ed to me
Fiona confessed to me frankly:
“I’m sorry, I initially approached Liam because of
