Chapter7
When I woke up in the hotel bed, my brain. had a moment of complete blankness. I froze for a moment, slowly regaining my
senses.
At that moment, I was completely naked, lying on a circular bed. The sound of water splashing from the bathroom echoed in the room. Doubting my own disbelief, I got under the covers to look twice.
Crap, I had drunkenly slept with someone!
The question was, who had I slept with?
Could it have been Lucy? No, impossible.
I tried to recall what happened last night, but nothing came to mind.
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Forget it, “the best strategy is to leave.”
My dress was torn into tatters, lying pitifully on the floor. I wrapped myself in the blanket, preparing to escape. Just as I reached for the door handle, the bathroom door opened.
Simon Parker and I stared at each other in silence before I screamed loudly.
How was it him? I actually slept with Simon Parker!
Simon Parker’s gaze dropped to my bare feet, his voice low and heavy.
“Planning to run?”
“No… no…”
I was forced back onto the bed, and Simon
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Parker, with a towel wrapped around his waist, had droplets of water falling from his damp hair, wetting his eight–pack abs.
I covered the blanket tightly, watching him pace around the room with caution.
He seemed to be figuring out how to speak, while I was thinking of ways to escape.
He walked to the window, lit a cigarette, and his gaze turned complicated as it flicked toward me.
“With your skills, you still dare to come here to settle debts?”
Who said I was settling a debt? It was an accident.
Besides, Simon Parker’s body was far better than Alan Simpson’s, so it was not clear who
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was losing out. I figured I’d just treat it as paying for a gigolo.
“Hey, do you have any clothes?”
Simon Parker glanced at the tattered fabric on the floor and then reached into the closet, tossing me a men’s shirt.
I didn’t hesitate, quickly putting it on. He was still blowing smoke, but I grabbed my bag and prepared to leave.
“Come back!”
Simon Parker’s eyes were dark with frustration as he cornered me against the wall.
“What… What are you doing?”
I held my bag between us, my round eyes
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fixed on him, refusing to look away.
“Clara Walker, you ungrateful thing, have you already forgotten about me?”
I froze. It was true, from the moment I first met Simon Parker, there had been a strange sense of familiarity, but no matter how hard I thought, I couldn’t remember where I had seen him before.
“That summer, you poured water all over me.”
I was stunned. That summer in middle school, as a duty student, I had dropped a bucket of water down the second–floor hallway. There had been a little boy standing by the flower bed, getting soaked.
The boy was chubby and stunned, while I, the famous school belle, had rushed over to apologize, using my handkerchief to dab the
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water off his face.
But the boy had just run away, his neck flushed with embarrassment, and I never saw him again after that.
That chubby little boy was Simon Parker?
I looked at his chiseled abs, finding it hard to reconcile these two images in my mind.
Seeing my disbelief, Simon Parker chuckled and placed a gentle kiss on my forehead.
“So, what do you think? Are you satisfied with my body, my great school belle?”
It was so embarrassing. I opened my mouth. but couldn’t find the words to speak.
What on earth had Simon Parker gone through in these years? He had undergone a
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complete transformation!
He didn’t continue speaking, nor did he let me walk out of the hotel naked.
Dressed in a dress sent by Simon Parker’s assistant, I was escorted to a high–end restaurant where we had French cuisine, each dish priced outrageously.
Simon Parker sat across from me, casually eating his steak.
“Isn’t this a bit too extravagant?” I stuttered.
“Is it too extravagant to take my woman out for a meal?”
Alright, typical man.
It was just one night, and now this guy was acting like he was the head of the house.
