The CEO's Hidden Love: Midnight Temptations and Deep Desires novel Chapter 1609

"...Seriously, don't you think this is exhausting for me?"

Miles paused, his thin lips frozen. He never had the upper hand in verbal spats with her.

"Felicity, you once said I was the only one you ever liked."

"I did say that, but people change as they grow up!" she retorted as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. "Do you still think and feel the same way you did when you were a teenager? Don't forget, back when I first liked you, you still saw me as nothing more than a little sister! And look, you changed your tune eventually, didn't you?"

Miles was taken aback. "You... you were just a kid when you liked me! Not even out of high school. How could I have possibly entertained any inappropriate thoughts about you then?"

From his perspective, Felicity truly was just a little sister back then.

"That's exactly my point. We've both changed since growing up. You started liking me, and I... well, I stopped liking you as much."

"..."

"Langston, can't you see? This trial period we agreed to, it was really just my way of trying to get you to go back home! Stop hanging around me in Anglonia. It's... it's really messing with my life."

Miles, being as sharp as he is, could easily see through her intentions. He just didn't want to let go of this last chance.

"If there's anything about my rules you're unhappy with, we can just end—mmh!"

Felicity's words were cut off as his lips sealed hers in a punishing kiss, his teeth grazing her lips as if to chastise her.

"Don't you dare say it—I won't listen!"

She struggled in vain, unable to escape his grasp. "Whether you listen or not, I still have to say it! It's not like chasing me to Anglonia guaranteed my forgiveness. Miles, don't you think you're being too clingy? Where's your gentlemanly decorum? Your pride? You managed to keep it up around Esther just fine, so why does it all fall apart with me?"

"..."

Felicity dug her fingertips into her flesh, the pain forcing her to spit out harsh words. "Honestly, haven't you noticed how annoying I find you now?"

Annoying.

This seemed to be his only way to cope.

In the office, where people could come and go, Felicity had to keep her body tensely coiled, fearing someone might enter at any moment.

But Miles, in this moment, seemed to have lost all reason!

The thought of her, in less than a month—no, even sooner—lying beneath Calvin, giving Calvin a chance to be intimate with her, to touch her, was driving him to the brink of madness.

"Only I can do this! Only me! Felicity, please agree, will you?"

She bit her lip hard, trembling with pain but refusing to nod.

"Answer me! Felicity, I don't want to hurt you!"

"Tell me! You said only I can do this—say it!"