Chapter 1416


    ric''s ragged breath fanned across Hertha''s face, his longshes brushing her cheek, sending shivers down her spine like a


    current of electricity. His alluring face was inches away, his lips pressed fervently against hers.


    It was the tremble, the heart-racing, the thrill she had dreamed of countless times, where she and ric were locked in a


    passionate embrace, just like this.


    Hertha felt as if her toes were curling.


    For three years, she had daydreamed and nightdreamed about this man.


    Hertha was no innocent like Thssa. When she missed a man, she entertained vivid dreams of rolling in the hay with him,


    kissing him endlessly, sleeping with him through countless imagined encounters.


    Now, her dreams wereing to life. She could feel ric''s potent masculine presence enveloping her, his kiss intense with an


    undercurrent of spite and anger.This text is ? N?velDrama/.Org.


    Yes, spite and anger.


    Hertha''s softened heart snapped back to reality abruptly. She ced her hands on ric''s face and pushed him away, her wide,


    watery eyes filled with indignation as she panted, "ric, | am not a pawn for you to use in your games with your fiancée!"


    She hated being used as a tool, just as Thssa had been treated by Lysander, especially being used by ric as a strategy to


    get under Georgia''s skin!


    ric''s striking eyes held hers, and beneath the anger, there was an undeniable longing that had surged unbidden when he


    kissed her.


    It was the same desire that had roared within him three years ago, the night they had crossed the point of no return, his body


    moring for her.


    "| never saw you as a pawn." ric''s voice was hoarse, tinged with raw emotion.


    He had suppressed his feelings for three long years. He had wanted to find Hertha, to exin to her that he didn''t want to be


    with Georgia. He just wanted to be with her.


    But the memory of that night in the hotel, when Hertha saw him with Georgia and stormed out, haunted him. He had chased after


    her, only to see her with Spencer, looking so happy and content, a stark contrast to how she was with him.


    ric knew women, and he knew they only showed their softest side to the man they truly cherished. Seeing Hertha''s affection


    for Spencer had made him step back.


    After that, Hertha had vanished from his life, no longer appearing before him and never reaching out.


    Meanwhile, his mother had pushed


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    nDy sisting athe was


    h acl to make it right since he


    had slept with her. Please read the


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    ric thought, if he had made a mistake, he might as well live with it.


    His mother was right. If he had


    slipped up and got rineglvedoaith!


    it to her to take


    responsibility. Please read the


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    After all, he was bound to marry


    someday, and of al be\worne held


    wey ner but Hertha had truly


    stirred his heart. Please read the


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    Marrying any of the others made no difference to him.


    Why not Georgia then? At the very least, his mother adored her.