His Sweet Menace novel

---- Chapter 16 Charles' question hung in the air. Charles walked into the house without even turning on the lights. He pressed me against the wall and kissed me hard. He had spent years sick, so his body ran a bit colder than most. He wasn't blazing hot. His temperature rose anyway. We both broke into a thin sweat. This time, no matter how much I begged, he refused to show mercy. He was as rough as ever-maybe rougher than before.

I felt dazed, recalling our first time when I lay there trembling not because it was my first time, but because I had thrown away my dignity and become his plaything. "Shay, you're spacing out right now? I could really kill you!" His breathing was rough, and his voice had turned cold. I bit my lip and hugged him tightly. "Charles , would you really?" In the dark, he went quiet for a moment. Suddenly, I began sobbing in grievance. "Charles, ---- what took you so long? I thought...

I thought you didn't want me anymore." He listened before coming up to sit on the bed and reaching for a cigarette. "Charles, don't smoke. It's bad for your heart." I tried to stop him. He turned his head and stared at me through the darkness. "Do you actually care about me? I bet you'd be happy if I died soon. Only then would you get your way." Ihurried to cover his mouth and stop him. "Don't say that! You're not dying! I won't let you die. I don't want to lose you again.

I want you to live a long life..." Charles pulled my hand away and let out a faint laugh, clearly unconvinced. "You hooked up with Horace behind my back, and yet you say things like this. Shay, aren't you being fake?" I froze. "Charles, you know that was all staged." He paused for a few seconds, then said with a bitter smile, "Shay, you left that footage. I don't even dare to think about whether it was real or not. "If it was fake, why did you do it? If it was real...

Shay, I'd kill you." It was obvious he couldn't bear such a betrayal. "Charles, it really was fake." ---- I bit my lip and said helplessly , "Charles , I was just too scared to know how I compared to Lilith in your heart. "Lilith told me you two grew up together. She said you hate women getting close to you, but she's the only one you'd ever let near. She also told me you'd only marry her, and you've just been playing with me these past few years.

Once she came back, I'd be nothing." I sobbed so hard that I could barely breathe. Then, I pulled out my phone and showed him all the insulting messages Lilith had sent me. "That night, you two were upstairs together. I stood out in the snow and heard everything . It wasn't just my body that froze. My heart did, too." At that moment, I was like a jealous girlfriend who felt insecure. Maybe that was why Charles finally softened. He snuffed out the cigarette and sighed deeply.

He then pulled me onto his lap. "Nothing happened with her that night, and I never touched any other woman. "Shay, I only have you. From beginning to end, there's only been you." I felt stunned and found it hard to believe. He was implying that I was the only one he'd ever slept with? ---- On our first night, had he been... a virgin? I stared blankly and blurted out, "Really?" Charles was unusually shy. He bit me and said, "Of course. Before my heart surgery , I always had strict self-control."