After My Death, My Husband Who Threw Me Into the Hunting Grounds Went Insane novel Chapter 42

LUKE

It wasn't like me to confess something personal. She had utterly bewitched me and had me bound under her magic spell.

I wasn't my usual self anymore. Normally, I would find another woman after a senseless fuck, but I just wanted to fuck her again. Seeing her enveloped in another man's arms just made my blood boil.

Her lips parted. The only thing we heard was the sound of our breaths.

"Why aren't you saying anything?" I asked.

"I'm not allowed to think?"

"I think what I said was clear."

"You still don't believe me. You only see what you want to see."

"Can you blame me?" My eyebrow raised. "I think what I want is simple. I want you, and I don't want to see you with any other man. What's so hard with that?"

"I can say the same," she uttered. "Is that so hard?"

I trailed a finger across her lips. "I can promise you that. Will you promise me?"

She heaved a sigh, and eventually, she nodded.

"Yes. I promise."

"Good." I set her back to the passenger seat and roared up the car. She sat there frozen. "I'm still taking you to my apartment. You won't get away this time, witch. This time, you have to pay for your sins."

Scarlet was silent in the entire drive, and when we arrived at my penthouse, she followed me like a lost puppy. She kept looking and typing on her phone, and it kept on vibrating whenever she received a text. I didn't want to bother myself with such trivial things, so I ignored it.

I pressed the key code on my door.

"Hey," I called her attention. "Ladies first."

"Oh," She slipped the phone in her pocket and stepped inside the door first but stopped when a flash of light illuminated the whole floor.

What the—

Gene and Dad's face startled us by tugging out a cork of a champagne bottle in front of our faces.

"Surprise, surprise!"

"Right." His mouth pressed into a hard line. "You know me too well."

"Yes, well?"

"I think you know why." Dad sat on the couch. "I want to meet our German partners. They're here."

"You should've thought of that before letting me meet them by myself," I complained, settling at the seat across him. "They're hard to deal with. If I were you, I'd just going to break the deal." Finally, I found myself sipping the taste of the drink.

"You can't do that, Luke. It's possible but not now. I'm going to go to the office tomorrow, have someone contact them, and see if they can meet with us in the next two days."

I scowled in frustration. "Two days? Where are you staying tonight?"

"Here. Where else?"

"What?"

"Come on, son. It's family time. But we'll catch up again about that." He grinned and patted my shoulder once more before he waltzed back towards his wife and the witch.

He's got to be kidding me!