The Devil CEO's Contract Wife novel Chapter 162

Chapter 162: Too Much To Ask

I slowly opened my eyes, feeling the steady rise and fall of his chest. I rested my chin against it and met with a sleeping Ares.

I don’t think I have ever gotten a chance to see him like this. This sight completely transforms everything. The cold, impenetrable Devil slept like a normal person.

I rest on my elbow, stretching my hand to brush aside the strands of his hair falling on his forehead, but he doesn’t stir.

He’s deep in sleep.

I don’t think Ares sleeps that much; he either stays awake to answer calls for work or he just straight-up ignores sleep.

It was nice that he was finally having leisure, maybe that’s why he comes here yearly for vacation.

I could obviously understand his need to rest from work, but I don’t fully have a picture of his private business; I had an idea it might be cumbersome or worse.

My thumb stroked his cheek gently, feeling the roughness of a stubble. My heart was heavy, which caused my entire body to feel like there was a stone holding me down. It’s depressing because I know where it stems from.

Damn Tori.

I hated that she was right, and I hated the fact that I could tell. She claimed what I felt for Ares was a different kind, which was why I couldn’t recognize it.

After what happened between us last night, the intense intimacy that didn’t originate from just desires, but the sense that we could speak with our souls, that connection.

Did Ares feel it too?

There was always this magnetic pull towards him, even when we were just boss and secretary. Everything started as hate. I hated his guts, yet we blended well, worked as if our souls could communicate.

I knew when to move and when to discern.

The other secretaries didn’t last because they didn’t understand Ares or how complex he was, and most of them probably pursued a relationship with him.

All I had in mind was trying to keep my job because I knew money was everything to me, so I poured my heart and soul into it. Inevitably, I became the devil’s secretary and worked in hell.

I rested my chin back on his chest, still eyeing Ares, making sure I kept this picture in my brain so that I could think of it later.

I broke the rule, Ares.

It’s laughable that I feel this way right now, but there was no use calling myself stupid or dumb for ending up this way. In the end, we don’t get to choose who we love.

I have only had one love, and it broke my heart. I told myself I won’t lean towards it anymore, that I was done with it, but there was no way to control the heart because it was one function that just acts on its own, just like when I had my first kiss with Dan... I was the one who acted on impulse, it was once pure, genuine and bright before it got corrupted.

This with Ares was different; it was the blackest of blackest and probably something I shouldn’t accept no matter what, but I can’t even control my own heart or body. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

I wonder when it started. These feelings... that didn’t feel as fresh as I hoped them to be or foreign.

Was it the day I stared into cold blue eyes, lingering when I shouldn’t?

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