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Chapter 54 - Land Mine
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2024-10-29 19:42:56“What are you planning to do to me, Mr. Miller,” she asked, her eyes sparkling and her voice cheery.
“I’m going to punish you, Mrs. Miller,” Ethan said while he hovered over her.
Lowering his head to taste her inviting lips, suddenly the doorbell rang.
Holding his gaze, Moriah grinned. Despite his annoyance at the situation and his lack of control over it, Ethan couldn’t help smiling back.
Ethan got up from the bed when the doorbell rang for a second time. He reached the door after the doorbell rang for the third time.
Ethan frowned upon seeing a delivery man with a bouquet of flowers in his hand.
“Sir, flower
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