The Rose He Showed Off Is Putting Down Roots in a Garden of Her Own novel Chapter 224

Elara was taking a sip of water, completely oblivious to his silent approach, until a heavy, muscular arm banded around her waist from behind. She jumped, nearly dropping her glass. "You scared me—"

Zane's mouth immediately covered hers, silencing her gasp. His hand slid down the hem of the shirt, confirming his suspicion. Nothing but smooth, bare skin.

His fingers ghosted upward.

Elara panicked, grabbing his wrist. "Did you wash your hands..."

"My hands are perfectly clean," Zane murmured against her mouth.

"You were just holding your phone..."

Zane let out a low, raspy chuckle. "That was the other hand."

He swallowed her protest with a deep, punishing kiss, his voice dropping to a gravelly whisper. "You can touch me too, you know. I don't mind."

"I don't want to..."

"What if I beg you?"

"No..."

He traced her lower lip with his tongue, his breath hot against her skin. "Men need to be pleased sometimes too, you know..."

This entire dynamic was completely foreign to Elara.

In seven years of marriage to Julian, sex had always been about his needs. She had just laid there and accommodated him. She'd never been expected to actively do anything.

Maybe that was exactly why Julian had been lured away by a mistress.

Maybe all men secretly craved a woman who knew how to truly ravish them.

It was that classic, toxic male fantasy—corrupting the innocent wives while trying to save the wild ones.

The educated, upper-class men just knew how to mask it under layers of refinement and etiquette. But deep down, they were all probably driven by the same primal desires.

Hell, Zane had literally gifted her a whole box of those toys.

He had handed her The Prototype without a shred of embarrassment.

Perhaps her entire perspective on intimacy had been stunted. To a man, maybe this was what made a woman truly intoxicating.

Elara was a brilliant problem-solver in the boardroom, and she decided to apply that same adaptability here. She surrendered to his request.

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