Chapter 5 What Happened Today Makes Us Even

• Damian bent down and swept up the already limp woman in his arms. Then, he strode into the bedroom and pinned her down on the soft king-size bed.
• The air in the bedroom smelled intoxicatingly sweet as the two bodies pressed themselves passionately against each other. The instant he penetrated her for the first time, Damian, who was on top of Lara, was stunned; a look of surprise flashed across his deep, black eyes. The woman beneath him couldn’t help trembling, and her body coiled up in pain. Her almond eyes had a dazed expression as her teeth bit lightly into her bright red lips, making her look dazzlingly charming and attractive.
• Much to Lara’s astonishment, she didn’t shove the man on top of her away. She wondered if it was because of the drug’s effects, but she, who had always found sexual relations repulsive, felt a surge of desire from the bottom of her heart. It seemed that she wasn’t really sexually unresponsive. Feeling uncomfortable, she twisted her body a little. At the sight of the scene, the man on top of her instantly bore down on her, his eyes bloodshot as he began to have his way with her.
• When Lara woke up in a daze, she felt so awful as though she had been crushed to death. To her, lovemaking was nothing but a form of torture, though it was lucky that the drug’s effects made her forget about the pain in the end.
• On the other hand, Damian had taken a shower. Wearing his bathrobe casually, he stood languidly by the window, smoking. His tall and muscular build made him look like a total hunk. As his sharp and shrewd gaze fell on Lara, she felt as though he had seen through everything about her at a glance. “What happened today… makes us even, I suppose,” he said.
• Feeling both embarrassed and indignant, Lara clenched her teeth as her hands clutched the blanket on her chest. What? How does this make us even? I’m getting the short end of the stick here! she thought.
• “Well, I helped you lure those people away, and I helped you… Which means I’ve done you a couple of favors,” Damian said slowly while taking a puff on his cigarette. His voice sounded a bit husky after the passionate coupling just now, while his stony face was blurred by the cigarette smoke that was curling upward.
• Is he saying that he was taken advantage of in this kind of thing? Lara was in disbelief.
• “Don’t you want to get back at your ex-husband after he schemed against you in such a deliberate way?” Damian asked impassively. Eyeing Lara’s surprised face without restraint, he then suggested, “How about we make a deal? You’ll be my woman, and I’ll take you under my wing. What do you think about it? Are you interested?”
• “Are you nuts?” Lara let out a sneer, as if she had heard a ridiculous joke. How could such a thing possibly happen to me?
• ……
• “It’s okay. You can take your time to think about it. Your phone rang just now. Seems like a phone call from your husband,” Damian said while handing Lara’s cell phone to her.
• Upon hearing Damian’s words, Lara instantly remembered that Eric had been trying to obtain evidence of her “extramarital affair.” Now that I think about it, what I did with this guy just now… does count as an extramarital affair, doesn’t it? she thought. Recalling what they had just done, she felt even more unsettled.
• Displayed on her phone’s screen were more than a dozen missed calls, followed by an incoming text message. Lara tightened her grip on her phone as Eric’s disgusting face flashed before her eyes.