Chapter 771 - 759: I Want You to Marry Me (46)

Chapter 771: Chapter 759: I Want You to Marry Me (46)

"Really!?" Shirley Lockwood asked, clutching Archie Lockwood’s arm excitedly as she looked up at him.

Archie Lockwood nodded firmly. "Yes, really."

"Dad!! I knew you loved me most!"

Archie Lockwood smiled, raising a hand to ruffle her little head. "Alright now, be a good girl and go to bed."

"Okay-dokey! Good night then, Dad!" ’Since Dad already promised not to marry a stepmom, I can sleep in peace now.’

Her father had always been a man of his word, so if he said he wouldn’t remarry, he definitely wouldn’t.

"Good night." Archie Lockwood gave her a doting smile.

After soothing Rory, Archie Lockwood took the ointment and returned to his room.

He closed the door and walked to the bedside. As he looked at the woman sleeping soundly on the bed, his brow furrowed slightly.

’The woman he’d refused to marry no matter how much pressure he was under... now he actually wanted to marry her...’

’Heh, he really was becoming strange...’

With a self-deprecating thought, he opened the ointment and pulled back the blanket covering the woman.

He looked at the woman on the bed... His brow twitched, and his expression instantly darkened.

’He didn’t understand why he’d taken it upon himself to apply ointment and give massages to Eleanor Bishop.’

’Did I think my self-control was that good? Or did I think I was so damn kind-hearted that I had to take pity on her and apply the ointment myself???’

With a grim expression, Archie Lockwood tried not to let his mind wander. He had to face the woman before him calmly...

’I’ve been abstinent for so many years. That proves I’m not a man who only thinks with his dick.’

’So, I absolutely can’t let myself be so easily mesmerized by this woman’s body!’

With that thought, it seemed... the flames of desire... were actually being suppressed!

He took a deep breath and slowly applied the ointment to the woman.

He looked at the woman’s fair legs, his gaze traveling further up...

He felt a warmth in his nose, as if something was about to drip out. At that realization, Archie Lockwood’s expression darkened instantly. He hastily smeared the ointment back and forth on her legs, not bothering to see if he’d covered everything.

After he finished applying the ointment, he kept his head down and began to massage her...

"Ah... it hurts..." Perhaps he was being too rough, because Eleanor Bishop’s brow furrowed and she cried out softly.

Hearing her voice, Archie Lockwood felt all the heat in his body rush to... a... certain... lower... region...

He lifted his eyes to glare at the infuriating woman. When he saw she was still sound asleep and hadn’t woken up, he felt utterly exasperated...

Annoyed because the woman’s only job was to light the fire; helpless because he could only look, but not touch, not devour...

’When had he, Archie Lockwood, ever been subjected to such an indignity! He was not a man who denied himself, yet tonight, for this woman’s sake, he had been forced to endure it twice!!!!!’

At that thought, a dangerous darkness filled Archie Lockwood’s eyes. ’He would repay tonight’s humiliation twofold in the future!!!’

When Eleanor Bishop woke up, she felt as if a pair of eyes were staring intently at her, as if trying to see right through her, making her shiver involuntarily.

「The next day.」

"You’re awake?"

Just as she reached out to pull the blanket over her partially exposed chest, a chilly voice sounded beside her ear.