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A fierce kiss landed between her lips and teeth, making her eyes widen in shock.
His eyes were tightly shut, yet his whole body radiated a dangerous aura that swept toward her relent- lessly.
What surprised her was that she caught a fleeting trace of emotion on this man’s face.
Before he officially returned to develop his career in the country, their interactions had been limited to him saving her a few times, but it seemed this man had long forgotten those incidents.
It showed that, to him, she was nothing more than an insignificant passerby.
But ever since the fire at the orphanage, their encounters had grown more frequent and uncontrollable.
Now, it had even reached the point where he would take the initiative to kiss her.
He was gradually infiltrating her life, lurking around her in a silent, extremely dangerous way.
It completely killed any thought she had of seducing him, snuffing it out in the cradle.
“Joaquin?”
At that moment, a voice suddenly called out from the living room.
Romina naturally heard the voice and instinctively reached out, pressing her hand against the man’s chest, trying to push him away.
But Joaquin firmly pinned her hand against the door.
After moving his lips away, the man lowered his gaze to look at her. “Ms. Sandoval, does it feel real enough now?”
Romina’s heart felt as if it was about to leap out of her throat, pounding wildly.
“Mr. Bowman, I’ve already said, you shouldn’t get involved in my divorce with Jericho, and I don’t need your help. As for today…”
“What? Are you going to pretend nothing happened again?” The man pinched her chin, lifting her face, his tone icy and indifferent. “We’ve done almost everything we should and shouldn’t have. Do you real- ly think you can walk away unscathed?”
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Romina was momentarily speechless. Except for the final step, they had indeed done everything else.
“Do you know what our situation looks like to outsiders right now?”
Joaquin’s lips curled into a captivating smile.
He released her chin and leaned close to her ear, his voice thick with ambiguity. “Call it lovers.”
As soon as he said this, her upper lashes fluttered wildly.
The man moved his lips away from her ear, cupped her face, and gently stroked her cheek with his fin- gertips.
“Our relationship now is just like Jericho and Nadine’s…” Joaquin laughed hoarsely. “So, you should understand, right?”
Romina tried to suppress her wildly beating heart, doing her best to remain calm.
She responded with a similar smile. “Mr. Bowman, I have no intention of being your lover. If you need that kind of woman, there are plenty outside. After all, there is no shortage of women who admire you. Please, let me go.”
“What if I say no?”
The man’s voice was deeply low and resonant as it fell into her ear, and her hands, clutching the sides of her skirt, involuntarily tightened for a moment.
In Romina’s eyes, this man was someone extremely dangerous and untouchable.
Yet they had become entangled.
“Joaquin, Romina…”
Jericho’s voice was suddenly getting closer.
Romina instinctively swallowed. “Mr. Bowman, he’s already looking for us. I’ll go out first, you come out later!”
Before the man could respond, she quickly pushed him away and reached for the door.
“Ms. Sandoval, I’ve told you before, you’ve already piqued my interest. Since you’ve entered my game, there’s no way I’ll let you walk away unscathed.”
At that moment, a deep voice came from behind her.
Her hand on the doorknob suddenly paused.
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Suppressing her nervousness, Romina still opened the door and walked out.
The man watched her departing figure, the smile at the corner of his lips never fading.
When Romina reached the corridor, she saw Jericho walking toward her.
Jericho glanced at her, then at the warehouse door. “What were you doing in there?”
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“It’s raining heavily outside, so I couldn’t leave. With nothing to do, I wandered around,” Romina replied in a low voice. “After all, I haven’t been back in three years. I wanted to see if anything had changed in this house…”
Her explanation made the man’s brows furrow slightly.
He didn’t respond to her words, but instead looked around. “Did you see Joaquin?”
“He went to the bathroom.” Romina said, tilting her head to give Joaquin a chance to leave the ware- house. “I have a few things I’d like to discuss with you. Could you come with me?”
Romina walked ahead, only relaxing when she heard the man’s footsteps behind her.
The two of them reached the living room and sat down face to face.
“If you have something to say, say it quickly!”
Jericho picked up the teacup on the table and drank it all in one go.
Romina lifted her shimmering eyes and met his gaze.
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