Chapter 263


    After Alice opened the door, she uttered in a soft voice, “Kingsley, you’re finally back. I was so worried


    about you…”“I’m alright, Alice.” Kingsley pointed to Room 604 next door. “Did Beau go in?”“Mhm. He


    did.” She nodded. “I heard him scream… He sounded tragic…”Kingsley couldn’t helpughing when he


    heard that. “Why is he so quiet now? Could he have died?”“I don’t think so.” She took a step closer to


    Kingsley and made a guess in a low voice. “The soundproofing in this hotel is good. It is probably


    because his voice has be quieter that we can’t hear him…”Alice had already changed into creamy


    white silk pajamas. The light fabric clung to her body, making exquisite curves faintly


    discernible.Kingsley looked at her, and he subconsciously gulped when he smelled the unique


    fragrance drifting off her skin.“Don’t worry about him, Alice. Let’s… take a bath and go to sleep…”Even


    though he had remained calm, or even indifferent when he was seduced by Xaria in the corridor just


    now, he couldn’t possibly not have any sort of physical reaction.At the end of the day, Kingsley


    Nicholson was just a normal man.It was entirely because of his vignce and wariness against


    strangers that he controlled his impulses and did not fall for Xaria’s honey trap.However, he didn’t need


    to have his guard up against Alice.Furthermore, the impossibly sensual curves of her body were too


    distracting for his eyes to not linger.In that instant, the impulses that he had suppressed from earlier on


    suddenly rushed up to his head.“Kingsley…”Alice’s face gradually flushed red when she noticed the


    subtle change in his gaze.“I already showered. I’m going to bed first!”After throwing that out, she


    jogged back to the bed, and quickly wormed her way under the covers.Kingsley took a deep breath


    then, and he turned around and entered the bathroom to take a short cold shower.His shower was


    almost as fast as the time he did his training in military camp.Two minutester, he waltzed out of the


    bathroom with a towel around his waist. Sweeping his hand through his wet hair, he murmured, “Are


    you really going to sleep so soon, Alice? It is so rare that we finally have the chance to be alone!”


    Hearing his words, she poked her head out to take a peek. “But I—”She stopped talking halfway


    through.The Kingsley standing in front of her only had a white towel on to cover the lower part of his


    body.With his defined, stout muscles in in sight for her to see, Alice could almost feel his


    domineering male hormones seeping out of his body.He looked down at his abdominal muscles before


    he chuckled. “What’s wrong, Alice? Are you captivated by my body?”“Kingsley…” She slowly sat up,


    her eyes watery. “The scars on your body…”What shocked her was not his excellent muscles, but the


    numerous scars all over his body.Knife scars, gunshot scars, burn scars, frostbite scars…There were


    even electricity and chemical scars!“What is all this, Kingsley?” She covered her red lips and muttered


    in a choked voice, “Why do you have so many injuries?”He only took a nce at the scars on his body


    before he scratched his head. “I served as a soldier, remember? These are all wounds from the


    battlefield.”He was so used to the scars that he hadpletely ignored them.But now, seeing her


    shocked and heartbroken expression made Kingsley realize that he shouldn’t let Alice see the scars on


    his body.“Alice, these are all old scars. I’m okay now. There is nothing for you to worry about.”As he


    spoke, he took his clothes and was about to put them on.He had just put his arm through one sleeve


    when he heard Alice’s soft voice. “Don’t wear your clothes. Come here and let me take a look.”“Alice,


    there is nothing to see. They are all healed. Just—”“Come here!” She cut him off. “I am a doctor. It is for


    me to judge whether or not these scars are healed or painful!”Resigned, Kingsley could only put down


    his shirt and step toward the bed.She then lifted the nket and grabbed him by his hand. “Come. Sit


    on the bed.”“Alice…”He hadn’t expected things to develop in this direction!He had brainstormed a


    million ways to get into the same bed as Alice without being beaten up, but he never would have


    thought that Alice would invite him to get in bed just by taking off his shirt and showing her his scars.This is the property of N?-velDrama.Org.