A Bird in the Cage novel Chapter 35

Chapter 35 Don’t Be Soft-Hearted

Reaching his large hands out, he flipped her over to face him. Putting down both of his hands on both sides of her, he pinned her down on the bed and stared at the complicated look on her face. Then, he asked hoarsely, “Was I too rough earlier, honey?”

What the h*ll! Didn’t he know if he was too rough or not?

Immediately, Catherine turned away because she didn’t want to see that affectionate look on his face.

After all, she had experienced it countless times before. He would ridicule her but still stare into her eyes affectionately. At the same time, she would

get lost in his affectionate eyes and end up believing that he loved her. However, he would often stare at her affectionately and drive her into the darkest despair in the next moment. For once, she wouldn’t be that silly anymore.

While her face was full of disdain mixed with

disappointment and despair, she was frowning so intensely that her heart hurt.

Unable to help it, Ryan bent over and kissed her on her beautiful eyebrows.

“Come on, don’t frown!” He whispered and kept his lips pressed on her eyebrows again.

At that moment, he sounded extremely gentle and she felt warmth coursing from her eyebrows and into her cold and dark heart, melting it into a mush.

Right now, she didn’t want to be soft-hearted

toward him, she couldn’t. Even if he truly had feelings for her under that ruthless exterior, it didn’t change the fact that he was Jas’ husband.

Trying her best to hide her feelings, she smirked sarcastically and uttered, “Are doing all this because you want to fuck me again? I have no right to refuse anyway so just do whatever you want! You don’t have to asking me whether you were rough or gentle. To me, I did it unwillingly so it doesn’t make any difference.”

Wasn’t she trying all kinds of ways to get him to fall for her? Why wasn’t she willing to accept him when he wanted to make out with her?

Was she pretending right now or did she really begin to hate him that much? He couldn’t allow her to hate him and neither could he allow her to have no feelings for him.

She should be feeling fear and pain when he

Closing her eyes, Catherine kept telling herself that Ryan was messing with her, so she wouldn’t be fooled or react to his tenderness whatsoever.