NovelOnlineTobias treated this place as his temporary imperial residence.
Skylar discovered a long time ago that this man was prone to severe mood swings, and his attitude
towards her was hot-and-cold.
When he was in a good mood, he treated her like a precious gem. If she asked, he would probably
steal a star from the night sky for her.
However, he was sometimes so brutal that he seemed like a completely different person.
Skylar slammed her schedule for tomorrow onto the table. She hit the table so hard that her hands hurt.
“I have to leave the house before the sun even rises tomorrow. You’ll excuse me for not doing it with
you tonight. If you’re so desperate, you can always find another woman to vent your animalistic
instincts on.”
Skylar looked as though she had swallowed a few mouthfuls of gunpowder. Tobias gazed at her with a
steely expression, feeling aggrieved.
She doesn’t like my present.
Skylar caught a faint whiff of alcohol on his clothes. He had probably come straight here from one of his
work parties.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtTobias glanced at her schedule on the table. It was almost completely full—she had a very busy day
tomorrow.
Without another word, he took her upstairs to a dimly lit room. The moment they entered the room,
Tobias removed his hand from her waist and started undoing the button on her pants.
Skylar grabbed his hand, which was hovering around the edge of her underwear. “Are you going to stay
after this, or leave immediately after we do it?”
She decided to pop the question. In the past, she had looked forward to living together with Tobias—
that meant they could see each other after work every day. It was some form of happily ever after for
her; she supposed.
However, he had ruined this fantasy of hers completely. After a few weeks of their quiet routine, he
dropped by less frequently. Sometimes, he refused to reply to her texts or answer her phone calls.
It would be a lie to say his change of heart did not hurt her.
Tobias let go of her. With a salacious expression in his eyes, he said, “Just once? That won’t be
enough. We’ll have to do it thrice at least… or I won’t go tonight.”
Skylar didn’t know if she should laugh or cry.
What should’ve happened afterwards happened. Tobias practically ripped her pants off her body. He
was very aggressive this time—her pants were only halfway down her thighs before he pushed her
onto the bed and entered her from behind.
Sweat dripped down his forehead as he panted and breathed raggedly. He told Skylar in a low voice
that it had been half a month since he did it.
She didn’t know if she should believe him.
Afterwards, Tobias sat on the sofa and smoked quietly, while Skylar lay in bed, naked as the day she
was born. Even breathing hurt.
She couldn’t summon the energy to sit up in bed. Her calves were still cramping up, which made her
shiver in pain.
As Tobias flicked the ash off his cigarette into the ashtray, he noticed that there were a few cigarette
stubs in it. They weren’t from the brand he smoked.
He put out his cigarette, which he had only finished smoking a third of. Gazing at Skylar darkly, he
asked, “Who has been here while I was away?”
Skylar knew he had a reason for asking that question. She climbed up from the bed with much difficulty
and realized it was the cigarette butts in the ashtray that piqued his suspicion.
“Penelope came a few times. Are you against my friends dropping by?”
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmThe butts in the ashtray looked like a brand preferred by females. Tobias didn’t ask about it again.
He lay back down in bed and cuddled up to Skylar, trying to move even closer to her.
He hadn’t taken any sleeping pills tonight, but fell asleep anyway. Even with the heavy weight of his
arm on her, Skylar didn’t dare to move.
After setting the alarm for half-past four in the morning, she shut her eyes and listened to the even
breathing next to her ear.
However, her movement as she turned the alarm off jolted Tobias awake.
They quickly changed out of their pajamas. Tobias had behaved like a starved wolf last night, quite
unlike how he had been when she first saw him downstairs.
Skylar was kind enough to let him sleep in at her house. It was way too early in the morning, anyway.
However, Tobias placed an arm around her shoulders. Without another word, he steered her out of the
door.
It was winter, but the first few rays of the morning sun were already creeping across the horizon,
illuminating the cars that were puttering about on the roads.
Skylar got into his car. It was the same one that she had discovered a lipstick stain a few weeks ago,
but now it was perfectly clean. She noticed there was a can of xylitol gum in the cupholder.
Skylar popped a gum in her mouth. Her face scrunched up in disgust immediately—it was mint-
flavored.
“Be careful,” Tobias drawled lazily. “Those are aphrodisiacs.”
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