Chapter 168

His voice was deep, but gentle. He talked to Zoe the way a husband and a lover would.

He asked her to stop crying and said that he’d be back in Brookesville soon. On top of that, he’d arrange for some of his men to track down Ella.

Much time had passed when Zoe stopped crying.

Holding the phone, he listened to her light breathing, and couldn’t help but say softly, “I may have asked you to stop crying, Zoe, but I love it when you cry. I feel the urge to be meaner to you whenever you do. I want to hear you weeping while you wrap your arms around my neck. I want you to call out to my name gently and beg for me to—”

She hung up on him abruptly. Hearing the beeping from the other end of the phone, he chuckled. Then, he made a phone call with the hotel phone and asked Ava to come over.

Ava hadn’t even had the chance to rest before he asked her to do more work for him. She was seriously thinking if she should’ve asked for a raise.

After knocking on the door, she went into his room and