It showed of experience outside of the gentleness of simple life, it spoke of a hard life hard lived, a woman forged in battle. “W-why?”
He smirked slightly and shrugged, “Because I want to keep working here.” Her expression fell some, but his smirk deepened, “And because I think I care about you a little. Indianporn I don’t know I-”
“Yes, you do.” he replied smoothly, his ploy of a massage working as intended, his senses so refined and his fingertips so sensitive that he could feel each twitch of her muscles, easily distinguishing her truth from her lies. “It was all a lie, even our first night together, the payment, the room, the pillows.”
Scarlett was sure that if she hadn’t been hardened by her life as an innkeeper she would be in tears, he could feel her fighting to hold them back, her breath shaky, a bead of a tear at the corner of one eye. He had, for the most part, avoided Mayla since his discovery, barring
