Chapter 10
Stella tightly gupped the Tabric of Rowan’s robe around his waist, feeling a bit nervous.
Rowan kissed her, and his hand that was)
it was holding her chan moved to the back of her head. His fingers threaded through her hair, gently pressing her closer to hum, mading their bodies press together
He softhe kissed her lips, slowly sucking and nibbling, over and over.
Stella realized that Rowan’s kiss felt different from when she kissed him
In her past life, he had always kissed her with such force, perhaps because she had resisted him, rejecting painful, as it he was trying to mark her, to claim ber
The Lately, if ever, shared a gentle kiss like this,
him at every turn. His losses back then were fierce, almost
She had even once thought he was incapable of tenderness, that he was like a wild animal who only knew how to fiercely bite after catching his prey. But now, at that moment, she realized how wrong she had been
Her lashes fluttered as his lips moved so softly against hers: Thankfully, she was sitting in his lap, with him holding her, making her feel secure
nut pist as the kiss was about to deepen, Felix, who had been curled up besicle Rowan, suddenly became restless.
The cat was
comusually agitated. It attatched and nudged at Rowan sing with its head and pows
Both of them stopped. Rowan frowned and released Stella, temning hvis attention to the troublemaking cat.
Stella followed his gaze, her eyes landing on Felia.
Just as their eyes met, Felix growled and let out a shrill, eerie cry, like a baby’s wail Stella flinched, instinctively shrinking into Rowan’s embrace, her arms wrapping tightly around his neck
Howan’s frown deepened as he scolded Felix, “Felix!”
Felix tuned its head towards him, mewing softly with a look of pity in its eyes.
stella bit her lip nervously, feeling a mix of tear and unease. She buried her face in Rowan’s shoulder, her voice trembling as she whispered, “Rowan, I don’t want To stay here.”
Rowan could see herfer
His expression darkened, but he said nothing. He simply stood up, holding her in his anns
When Felix saw them preparing to leave, it lightly jumped off the couch as it wanting to follow them, but Rowan stopped it with a single glare.
Felix mewed once more, lying down on the floor and staring at them with a pitiful gaze
i was clearly Stella’s car, and its eyes mirrored her. But Rowan paid it no attention, carrying Stella as he walked away.
As the door dused, Stella looked past Rowan’s shoulder toward Felix in the living room. She was afraid that Felix’s aggressive behavior toward her and his
resistance to Rowan getting riose might mean that Felix could sense she had been reborn, seeing her as a ghost.
Howan carried her back upstairs to his apartment, Stella kept murmuring in his war, “I told you, lie’s really fierce.”
After entering Rowan at her down, raising an eyebrow at her words. “So, what are you going to du? Not keep the eat anymore?”
He said than while heading toward the kitchen Stella frowned at his words.
Felix had been with her for four years, a birthday gift she received on her 18th birthday. Someone had left him at her doorstep, but she never found out who. The card simply read, “Happy Birthday.”
An the came, she assad everyone the low if they had sent the cat, but no one knew. Her friends even teased her, wondering how anyone could give such a gift- jist a cat, for the heiress of the Faculd family’s birthday. But welant tharindiduct realize was that Stella loved cats.
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