The dark shade of royal blue had contrasted with her pale skin tone beautifully. As it accentuated her complexion, she looked extremely dazzling. The thigh-high slit on the left side of the dress brought out her long slim legs. It was alluring and almost tempting as her legs would only be partly visible occasionally as the skirt flowed. He had not expected for her to look so ravishing in the dress. He had frozen for a moment and felt his blood rush. His eyes darkened, and he swallowed down a gulp before exclaiming, “Change to the next!”He furrowed his brows as he thought, ‘That slit was almost up to her waist. Why are the designs of the dresses here getting so poor?’Summer examined herself in the mirror and thought, ‘Does it look that bad on me? Sure, it’s kind of exposing, but it’s still a pretty dress.’ After going back and forth for quite some time, she had nearly tried on every dress the shop assistant had brought to her, but the picky man outside was not satisfied with
Summer was dressed in a long red strapless dobby mesh tube dress, exposing her neck and defined clavicles. It accentuated her complexion, making her stunning.A matching red veil was draped over her right shoulder and around her waist, and it floated along, drawing beautiful arcs in the air as she walked.Her makeup was light, and her silky black hair was styled with a similar but shorter veil attached in her hair into a low ponytail that rested on top of her shoulders.She had looked enchanting, pristine and flawless. Her dress was not revealing, but it had a subtle alluring feel to it as it fitted on her. It was an indescribable feeling, but her beauty could easily take everyone’s breath away.She hooked her arm around through Mark’s, and he was smartly dressed in a nice suit. His features were defined with his deep dark eyes, and he was easily made the center of attention as he radiated undeniable elegance and grace.Spamming their cameras with pictures, the reporters took and
Mark eyed her swiftly and said, “You don’t feel safe.” “You’re saying as if I’m a man. Well, I’m not, and it’s not like I would do anything inappropriate to her,” she replied as she wondered if she had given off an untrustworthy impression.Snatching the opportunity to butt in, Billy said, “Hey, you guys can brush off the wedding party and return gifts for guests but let me remind y’all that we’re definitely playing that game tonight!” Charlie agreed as well, he said, directing to Mark, “Yeah, bro. You better prepare yourself. You can’t run away this time.” Mark furrowed his brows after taking a short glance at their excited faces. Without giving them a reply, he turned and left. “We can take his silence as his consent, right?” Billy said, bumping his shoulder into Charlie’s.“I think so.” “Let’s plan something extra exciting. Shoot me with the most wicked ideas you have!” Upon hearing the thrill in their voices as they discussed, Sherman shook her head in helplessness as
“You had better believe I will ask my brother-in-law to kick you out of here.” Amara would not back down. She shot Lily a sideways look.Failing to win the argument, Lily went physical. But Amara would not take it lying down.The commotion started to attract attention. Sherman nudged Summer’s arm as she had noticed it, too. “Hey, your sister-in-law is making trouble again?”Summer was getting some shut-eye when she heard Sherman. She opened her eyes and looked over, just in time to see Amara attacking Lily.It was impossible to get a moment of peace when Amara was present.Summer frowned. She walked over and pulled Amara over with one hand. “Knock it off, Amara!”“Not yet! She scratched my face! I swear will destroy hers!”“If you dare to make trouble again, I will instruct the security guards to throw you out!” Summer warned her with a serious face.Amara yielded, but Lily egged her on. “I dare you to do that. Bring it on!”The somewhat cooled down atmosphere heated up again.
In the presidential suite.Mark put Summer on the settee. When he looked at her pink cheeks, anger built up inside him.“You saw the wine coming your way, right? Why didn’t you dodge?”His voice was deep. When he spoke, there was a familiar and pleasing scent. He really sounded angry.But Summer somehow felt it pleasant to the ears. She wrinkled her nose and looked up at him with sparkling eyes. “I am dizzy.”Her voice was as soft as the summer breeze, her expression telling him she felt hurt. She bit her lip, her face reddening with a tinge of fascinating charm.Mark swallowed involuntarily, reaching to loosen his tie, which he felt too restricted. “Go take a shower and then take a good rest. Call me if anything.”“Okay.”After he left, she took a shower, and then drank two large glasses of water. She felt better after a long rest.After the incident, Amara would certainly be too afraid to make trouble again.Summer got changed and took a nap on the settee for three hours. S
As soon as two minutes expired, Billy whipped the belt on Mark’s back, one lash after another.Red marks gradually appeared on Mark’s back. Summer knew that Billy was doing it for real.She bit her lip in hesitation.“The sooner you do it, the earlier we can wrap this up. Otherwise, we can go on the entire night.” While speaking, Billy increased the force of the whipping. No way he could abuse Mark like this normally. He did not want to miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.The lashing carried on. Summer’s heart thumped and ached when she saw the bruises on Mark’s back.‘Here goes nothing!’ She gritted her teeth. Playing games such as this was common during wedding day. Instead of shilly-shallying, she thought she might as well end this quickly. Billy stopped and grinned.Summer came up, picked up the candy on his forehead with her mouth and then ate it. When they had eye to eye, her heart pounded. She quickly looked away.She was aware that her cheeks must be red, like dr
Everyone except Raine was present for breakfast in the Valentine mansion.Yvette looked up at Mark. “Your grandma called this morning. She asked you to visit her in Norwood.”“Did she say anything else?” He stopped what he was doing. His deep voice had a touch of gentleness.“She said that she hadn’t seen you for a long time and missed you. But she is busy and can’t come. So she asked you to go to Norwood instead.”“Okay.” He gently replied. “I will go with Summer tomorrow.”‘Summer?’As far as Summer could remember, this was the first time Mark called her by her name. It felt amazingly pleasing to the ears.Yvette’s expression changed slightly, but she hid it well.“Without Summer here, Mom will feel lonely in this vast mansion.” She made a lovely excuse for Summer.What else could Summer say when Yvette had already said so?Summer snapped back and let out a smile. “Mom has a point. I will stay.”Pleased with the answer, Yvette patted her on her shoulder. It looked like thi
She turned to look at him. “You’re hungry?”He pinched his brow with his fingers, his breath smelling of alcohol. “I drank quite a lot with clients. I need something to fill my stomach.”“I will see what I can get.” She got up and went into the kitchen.There was still some beef, spinach, and carrots in the fridge.So she made him a bowl of spinach beef soup.As Mark stared at the bowl of spinach beef soup, she turned around and looked at him in puzzlement. “What is going on?”“There are carrots in there.”“Carrot is not a poison.” She ignored him and went to take a shower.He had alcohol all night while out entertaining clients. Now the tantalizing aroma of the soup made him hungry.He looked at the carrots in the soup again and frowned. It was not after a while later he picked up the spoon and dug in.Summer emerged from the shower after half an hour.Mark was lying on the bed and had crashed out.She padded over to the coffee table and saw something ludicrous.Now she k