Divorce and Freedom No More Homemaker for Him novel Chapter 407

Chapter 407 Let’s Make It Real

Chapter 407 Let’s Make It Real

Had she gotten so used to his kindness that she stopped noticing it? She remembered Shawn’s help so clearly-yet somehow couldn’t feel his.

He was standing right in front of her.

ས 73%

+5 Free Coins

Overthinking didn’t calm him down. Draven lowered his voice, holding it in. “Then what about me? Don’t I get a thank-you?”

He didn’t expect her expression to turn serious the moment he said it.

“How could I forget you?”

She answered too fast. Draven froze.

Ayla smiled softly. “Our agreement doesn’t leave much room to bend the rules-but it’s not zero. It just depends on who the person is.”

She reached for his left hand, the one that wasn’t hurt as badly. Palm to palm, their warmth met. She looked straight into his eyes. “Draven, let’s make this real.”

He didn’t react right away. So she pushed forward, all in. “On the helicopter, I told you I’d come find you after things settled. I didn’t mean to explain to Troy who Noah was or what happened with him. I just wanted to tell you this She took a breath. “Let’s stop pretending. I want us to be real, like normal couples.”

When she said the first line, her heart was racing

After she said everything, she felt strangely calm

Once she realized how he felt about her, she didn’t know how to act around him anymore.

Saying she didn’t like him wasn’t true-but her felings had grown from friendship. She rarely thought of him in a romantic way. She didn’t want to leave him, but she also couldn’t suddenly flip a switch and feel ready for something physical.

So she never responded.

But tonight-the accident, him showing up, the hug on the rooftop, the kiss on the helicopter-it all piled together. And the impuls came.

At the hospital, while applying medicine, she’d calmed down for a moment. But the urge to say it never went away,

If anything, deep down, she felt nervous excitement and hope.

1/3

<

10:22 Fri, Jan 16 DG B

Chapter 407 Let’s Make It Real

༥ 73%L

+5 Free Coins

Still, Draven didn’t speak. Only his eyes changed Under his thick lashes, his gaze was darker than she had ever seen-heavy, deep, and impossible to hide.

Everything he felt was written there.

That alone was already an answer.

Because if he were going to refuse her, he wouldn’t be looking at her like this-like he wanted to pull her in and never let go.

Without thinking, Ayla lifted her hand and rested it against his face. In that instant, his breathing turned heavy.

It was the first time she had ever touched that striking face. Her nerves flared. This was a man the world saw as cold, powerful, and untouchable. A man who kept everyone at a distance. And now, the side of his face was right there in her palm.

It felt reckless, like touching something she wasn’t supposed to.

Ayla looked at him. “That night … when you touched my face-what were you thinking?”

She asked softly, “When you kissed my forehead… What was going through your head?”

Draven’s lashes trembled. When she first said, “Let’s make it real,” his brain hadn’t even caught up yet.

By the time he understood what she meant-after hearing her explain it again-his heart nearly jumped out of his chest. His body went stiff, then weak. His hands and legs tingled. For once in his life, he had no idea how to react.

All he could feel was the warmth of her palm against his face, growing louder by the second.

Then she asked again, “When you asked me to fake being your girlfriend… What were you thinking?”

Draven moved without control. He covered her hand with his own and held it tight.

He looked at her, focused and intense. He opened his mouth-but no sound came out for a second or two. His jaw was tight, aching. Then finally, his voice broke free, lower and rougher

than ever.

“I was thinking about when you’d finally be mine I was thinking about when you’d start liking me. I was thinking about what I’d have to do to get you.”

Ayla had asked out of pure curiosity. But the look in his eyes-and every word he said-sent her heart slamming hard against her chest. Faster and faster.

2/3

10:22 Fri, Jan 16 DGB.

Chapter 407 Let’s Make It Real

It felt like he was the one confessing.

She felt stunned. And thrilled..

73%

+5 Free Coins

From the moment she walked into the suite and started talking to him, she saw a side of him she had never seen before-jealous, shaken, undone. It was so new it felt like meeting him for the first time.

A man the world called cold and distant, moved so deeply by her every word. That kind of love was impossible to resist-because it was personal. Because it was different.

Still, what Ayla felt for Draven wasn’t the instant spark she’d once felt with Troy. Her confession tonight had been pushed forward by many outside forces.

She had already told herself she could talk it over with Halle later. There was a two-year limit anyway. They could try being together first and see where it went. She didn’t know another

way.

But everything that happened tonight-so sudden, so chaotic, so unplanned-hit her all at once. Just like realizing his feelings for her had caught her completely off guard.