Spoiled by the President novel Chapter 52

With a stiffened back, Nell dared not make any sudden movements.

Amid the darkness, she slowly widened her eyes.

Was this guy... really asleep?

He usually kept to his side of the bed, what was all the sprawling around the place today? Was he pretending to be asleep?

Nell waited for a while but all was quiet behind her. The pin-drop silence with the man’s faint breathing in the background drew out a frame of tranquility and serenity.

She sat tight for a while more until she was certain that the man behind her remained motionless before lifting her hand to carefully prop his arm to move it away.

However, the action immediately resulted in murmurs coming from behind her.

That arm quickly drew back, tightening its grasp over her waist.

On top of that, the man’s body was pressed against hers, and his handsome face buried in her long mane, as though she was a large-sized pillow. She was withheld in his territory.

Nestled in his embrace, Nell was almost left breathless from suffocation while her body lay frozen.

The faint breathing spewing between her hair and warm circulation curling her neck aroused a tingle of trembling numbness, electrifying her entire body like a surge of current.

With her head buzzing, Nell’s mind went blank.

Yet, the man behind her remained unaware as he glided his arm over her waist, tightening his grasp over her.

Nell gritted her teeth.

This posture was way past the line of flirtation.

It could be said as risky.

Unable to bear it further, she clutched onto his hand to pry it away, unconcerned whether the action would wake him.

Nevertheless, try as she might, her efforts were in vain since that arm applied force over her waist.

She was going to give it another go with all her might when she heard muffles of laughter behind her.

Dumbstruck like a blow to the head, Nell finally caught on.

She turned her head over.

The light brightened the room in a click.

Nell stared at the man on the bed, stunned and speechless. He stopped playing dumb now that he had been discovered. Only, he never loosened his grip over her. With the other arm propping his head on the pillow, he grinned at her.

“Finally quit pretending?”

There was unmistakable banter in the man’s voice.

Seeing red, Nell chided, “You weren’t asleep?”

“Weren’t you too?”

“I...”

Unable to refute as she was in the wrong, Nell dejectedly answered, “So what? I did not get on your nerves pretending to be asleep, but why did you have to try my patience when you were faking it?”

Gideon quietly stared at her.

The woman’s downcast eyes revealed faint guilt and fluster. Her embodiment of a lost deer tugged on his heartstrings.

She really was not the type to lie.

A little lie was already biting so much on her conscience.

Gideon quietly chuckled to himself before asking her, “What did you hear outside the study tonight?”

Nell paused.

She lifted her eyes to meet his gaze.

The man’s eyes were profound and murky, like the finest black jade. Under the dimmed lighting, these seemingly penetrating eyes spoke of placidity and serenity.

Nell felt uneasy at his gaze.

He was the one at fault but his calm gaze suggested as though she was to blame!

She was on a warpath.