Chapter 729 A Truth Withheld

    At that moment, Ste’s question carried a trace of hopelessness.

    “Yeah,” Tessa replied. “Victor came to get me.”

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    Victor had taken her away from Marie, and yet Ste hadn’t known. She’d been insisting all along that Dan had kidnapped her?

    iOh/ii, /iiGod/ii… /i

    Meanwhile, Abraham was still cooling off. It took him more than twenty minutes under a cold shower before he finally stepped out of the bathroom, a white towel wrapped around his waist, droplets of water trailing from his damp hair down over his shoulders and along the ridges of his abs. His whole presence was icy, restrained, and dangerously enticing.

    Ste had just hung up the call with Tessa.

    When she saw Abraham emerge, she was about to question him when her eyes caught on the sight of him–her throat worked instinctively as she swallowed.

    Heaven help her. From opening her heart to getting pregnant, she had barely had a handful of experiences with him. She had no resistance at all.

    Seeing her staring at him in a daze, the man chuckled softly. “Like what you see?”

    Ste nodded. “Yeah.”

    Her honesty only made his smile deepen. “Want to touch?”

    “Of course… No! I mean, no,” Ste blurted, nodding and then shaking her head in a rush.

    He had already spent half an hour in the shower. If she touched him again, he’d need another thirty minutes under cold water.

    Abraham walked over to the sofa, picked up his robe, and slipped it on, letting the towel drop. Those long, lean legs of his were enough to spark endless imagination.

    He lifted the nket on the other side of the bed andy down, but he didn’t pull her into his arms right away–his body was still chilled, and he didn’t want her to catch cold.

    But Ste wriggled over and pressed herself against him anyway. He held her head in bce /bwith a firm hand.

    “Don’t move around so much, alright?b” /b

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    “Okay.”

    She hadn’t been trying to tease him—just finding afortable position in his arms.

    “Be good,” Abraham murmured. “I’m cold right now. I’ll hold youter.”

    He tried to nudge her away to let her sleep on her own, but Ste refused.

    “No. I want to hold you. Let me warm you up.”

    “You’ll just catch a cold.”

    “I won’t.”

    How cold could it really be under the nkets?

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    Abraham sighed helplessly but didn’t push her off. Truth was, he couldn’t bear to. He loved how clingy she always was.

    “Honey, I need to ask you something.”

    Just as Ste found a cozy spot against him, she lifted her head again.

    “Hm?” Abraham’s chest warmed at the way she called him husband. His gaze softened, filled with tenderness.

    “Tessa just called me,” Ste said.

    ”

    Silence fell between them. Abraham looked at her, waiting.

    But his silence alone was enough to make Ste pout. “You knew. She tried calling me before, but you answered. Why didn’t you tell me?”

    Her voice carried growing usation. Since when had this man be so sly?

    Abraham sat up and pulled her with him. Ste squirmed. “Let me go.”

    “I did it on purpose,” he admitted.

    “What?”

    The blunt confession left her stunned. He had done something wrong, and he admitted it just like that? How bold could one man be?

    “If I’d told you,” he exined, “you would’ve told your sister. Then what excuse would she have

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    left to go after Dan?”

    “…” Ste blinked.

    Go after Dani? /i

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    iWell/ii… /iithat /iwas true enough.

    “But even without Tessa as a reason, she could still go after him, right? Does she really need an excuse? Even before all this with Tessa, she used to beat him up all the time.”

    It was the truth. Marie had always gone after Dan. Tessa or not.

    “With this, she had a stronger excuse to hit him harder.” Abraham replied.

    ”

    ”

    Well… maybe he was right. Dan had even lost his base, blown to pieces.

    “And with Derrick alongside her.” Abraham went on. “they’ll keep hitting Dan until this Tessa business is resolved. As long as Tessa’s involved. Maric won’t stop.”

    That… was also true.

    But hearing it allid out like this, why did it sound like Dan was the real victim here?

    Wait–wasn’t he?

    Lately, hadn’t Dan been innocent in everything?

    Marie refused to believe Derrick had slept with her and decided it was Dan–so she beat him.

    Now she thought Dan had taken Tessa–so she ttened his stronghold.

    This was worse than Dou E’s injustice!

    Seeing Ste fall silent, Abraham pinched her cheek. “What are you thinking about?”

    “I was just thinking… Dan’s basically the scapegoat here. Poor guy.”

    If that wasn’t being a scapegoat, what was?

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