MasukLately, no matter which car he drove, he would bring that little bear with him. Only today, he had not.She did not know whether he had forgotten or whether there was some reason he did not want to bring it.Katherine opened the car door, planning to go back to her own place and pack.Roundy nudged
Katherine froze.Then a faint ache spread through her chest, tender and bitter all at once.In her heart, she silently answered him.Because I couldn’t see any hope. I really had no other choice.Mark Winter, you jerk. Who told you to keep your heart so cold and hard all the time? I couldn’t get in.
For example, Mary’s surgery had seemed like an impossible mountain to Katherine. But with one phone call, he had arranged the specialist.Katherine lay there for a long time, slowly calming herself.Talking with her father had passed his anxiety on to her. But lying beside Mark, she quickly relaxed.
At that moment, Katherine was like a little puppy wagging its tail, pitifully hoping Mark would take her in and let her into his bedroom.Mark knew what she was worried about, but he was not in the mood to deal with her.He withdrew his gaze and said without emotion, “Suit yourself.”Then he went in
Of course, Grace did not look down on women for spending her son’s money. In fact, she had always despised stingy men who refused to spend money on women.But using Mark’s money to buy her an expensive gift would have seemed hypocritical. Worse, it would have carried the ugly smugness of someone poo
The break room was already quiet.Any sound slightly louder than a whisper felt as if someone outside might hear it, so Katherine instinctively lowered her voice.“Don’t be mad at me anymore.”She carefully tugged at Mark’s sleeve, waiting for his answer. But as for making it up to him, she was too
She only wanted to leave.She did not want to stay in this apartment, and she especially did not want to be intimate with him here.Because it made her feel like an intruder. Like a third party stepping into a place that had never belonged to her.Mark wrapped an arm around her waist, pressed her be
The tiny, absurd flicker of possessiveness in Katherine’s heart set off alarms inside her.It was like a small animal sensing danger nearby. Instinct told her there was danger.Naturally, her first reaction was to run.But the moment Katherine said it, she regretted it a little.They had just been t
Mark glanced at her knowingly several times along the way, but said nothing.That look, as if he had seen straight through her, only made Katherine more nervous.“Stop looking at me,” she said first, turning her head to stare out the window and refusing to look at him again.“The way you look right
“Don’t twist my words into something dirty,” she muttered. “What was the point of all that education?”Mark leaned back in his chair, completely unbothered. “Even people with Ivy League degrees like dirty things.”“Don’t flatter yourself. You didn’t go to Harvard or Yale.” As she said it, Katherine







