Kingsley Baxter came back in the middle of the night.
Nora Cole was sleeping then. With a sudden clap of thunder rolled across the night sky outside her window, she woke up immediately, right after which she heard hurried footsteps coming from the outside of her bedroom.
Feeling shocked, Nora had little time to react when someone pressed the switch and turned on the chandelier with a snap.
The whole room was bathed in light within a second. Nora closed her eyes promptly. By the time she opened her eyes again, the man had already walked to the side of her bed.
Kingsley looked down at Nora with extreme apathy. He couldn’t hide the look of annoyance and disgust in his eyes.
Why did he come back at this moment? Shouldn’t he be enjoying a vacation abroad with some star called Vivienne Hall?
Nora looked into his emotionless eyes and said in a rather nervous tone, “Why… why are you home?”
The heavy smell of alcohol in his breath mixed with his inborn ego, giving Nora a sense of terror when she was standing so close to him, which has resulted in her subconscious attempt to push him away.
And it didn’t take long before both of her hands were caught by Kingsley. The man reached out another hand to hold her chin, with his eyes fixed on her face.
The one thing Nora could be certain about was that he was drunk and delirious. Those slightly narrowed eyes were red and had lost focus. It seemed that he was staring at her, but his eyes were actually filled with nothing but hollowness.
They looked into each other’s eyes like that for about ten seconds. Kingsley closed his eyes and a smile lifted the corner of his mouth. Then he opened his thin lips slightly and said, “Rosaline!”
This was definitely not the first time he had mentioned another woman’s name to her face. During their six-month marriage, he only came home a very few times, and he even refused to sleep on the same bed with her when he was at home, as if she were never existed.
But that was not a big deal. Where could she find another rich, handsome husband who would pay for her mother’s medical expenses after all? Therefore, Nora managed to calm down after a moment of breath-holding, and she said peacefully, “I’m Nora!”
The four letters of her name made his eardrum throb. He froze for a moment, and his thoughts suddenly flashed back to the day when she was standing in front of him naked and saying, “I don’t want any of your money. I want you to marry me, or I will accuse you of sexual assault!”
The man sneered and grasped Nora’s chin, “Nora Cole! I’ve only been away for a couple of months, and you’ve already missed me and called me for a thousand times.”
There was absolutely no emotion in his eyes when he was staring at her, but only coldness, as if his eyes were the deepest ponds with freezing water.
Nora was totally horrified, struggling instinctively, “Please don’t do this! You are drunk! Just keep a little sanity!”
She was well aware of how scary Kinsley could be when he was drunk.
She couldn’t help but trembled a little just thinking about it.
“I’m perfectly sane!” The man said in a hoarse voice, with an ironic and cold smile lingering on his lips, ” You like playing hard to get me? Then I’ll satisfy you.”