Chapter 25

VALERIA

Seeing him acting that nonchalant, as if he wasn't the one who had literally caged me in here, I really felt an urge to wipe that annoying smile off his face.

And I did exactly that.

By jumping off my bed and running over to give him a slap on the face, or at least tried to...

With his eyes squinted dangerously, he held up my outstretched hands, "Grumpy much?"

"What do you think?!" Not to be outdone, I asked back with equally squinted eyes.

He didn't reply immediately. Instead, he took the opportunity to yank me closer to him.

Then, he released my hand to wrap his arms around my waist.

"What the hell are you doing?!" Being tightly held against him to the point where I could clearly feel the outline of his body, made me panic for some reason, so I subconsciously raised my voice to question him.

"I thought I already made it obvious enough that I was taking 'liberties' with my legal wife."

I heard him say in reply, with a deliberate emphasis on the word 'legal'.

He was reminding