Regrets Come Too Late (Sierra and Johnny) novel Chapter 315

Chapter 315

Sierra fought with herself over this.

Even if he didn’t use this to bargain with her, he would still never let her sleep in another room. The result would be the same.

But if she agreed to this kind of trade, something between them would quietly change.

John watched her, saw how she wanted to look but couldn’t bring herself to ask, and held the phone out to her. “Check my phone and then go to sleep. Our private jet leaves at nine. We have to get up early.”

The phone felt heavy in her hand.

Doubt filled Sierra.

If there was anything on his phone, John would never let her see it. If he allowed her to see it, then either the situation was precisely as he described. He was capable of disregarding his son’s well–being to get whatever he wanted, or he had already

removed all evidence.

Either way, there was no point in looking.

“It’s fine,” Sierra said.

She tossed the phone back to him and got into bed, every movement laced with anger. She lay at the very edge of the bed, so

close that a single roll would make her roll down the bed.

John put his phone away, lifted the covers, and lay down beside her.

The moment she felt the mattress dip, Sierra instinctively inched even farther toward the edge. She couldn’t get away, yet she

refused to be too close to him, so this was the only way she could resist.

“I don’t take up as much space as you think.” John reached out with one arm and drew her gently against his chest, wrapping her in his warmth. “You don’t need to curl up in the corner.”

Sierra wanted to move away, but she could feel the heat of his body steadily building against her back. Before long, the sign of

his reaction pressed against her.

In that instant, she didn’t stop to think. She simply struggled to get out of his arms. No matter what happened tonight was true or false, she couldn’t stay with him like this.

“Don’t move,” John said as he tightened his hold around her. His voice dropped low. “This is just a normal reaction after not having you close for too long. I’m only going to hold you tonight. I won’t do anything else.”

Some of the tightness and anxiety left her immediately. John was a man of his word.

John kept rambling to pull her mind away from everything that had happened. “Why did you want to check my phone just now?”

Sierra stayed quiet. After a long time, she finally asked, “If I hadn’t signed that agreement, would you really have left Tommy in danger?”

“Does that answer really matter to you?” John didn’t answer the question directly.

Sierra went still.

Of course it mattered. If he wanted to support Pamela, that was his choice. She could convince herself that it was simply his sense of right and wrong being distorted.

But if he could ignore Tommy’s safety for this, that meant he had lost even the most basic of human decency.

She couldn’t accept a partner like that. She also could not believe the man she had loved for five years was so cold.

“Whether the answer is a yes or a no, you still won’t stay with me,” John spoke to himself. “Isn’t that right?”

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Sierra said nothing

He knew she wanted to leave, yet he still played all the tricks he knew to keep her by his side. Just that alone proved he was not

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