Sign the Papers Mr. Langford novel Chapter 146

Lawrence's gaze turned dangerously cold.

Those words struck at the very core of his humiliation and ignited his fury.

The way Wren looked at him.

Like he was trash.

Lawrence suddenly reached out and yanked Willow against him.

She stumbled forward, crashing into his chest.

She didn't fight back.

Instead, as if her resolve had finally crumbled, she weakly grabbed handfuls of his shirt.

"Lawrence..."

Lawrence tipped her chin up and kissed her.

There was no tenderness in it.

It was purely a release of rage.

Willow closed her eyes, letting a tear slide down her cheek, but her mind was calculatingly clear.

She knew exactly what she was doing.

She was absorbing his bruised ego after Wren's rejection, using it to anchor him back to her.

As long as he touched her.

As long as he chose her after Wren had called him disgusting.

Then she still had the upper hand.

Lawrence reached back and slammed the door shut.

The sky outside was darkening. Their intertwined reflections flashed against the glass before being swallowed by the heavy curtains he pulled shut.

No one mentioned the gala.

No one mentioned Vivian Vance.

Leaning against him, Willow listened to her own ragged breaths and Lawrence's heavy, suppressed exhales.

She knew this wasn't love.

It wasn't even affection.

But so what?

She had learned a long time ago that to secure a place beside a powerful man, you couldn't just wait for him to love you.

You had to make yourself his sanctuary the moment he was at his most broken, the moment he couldn't stand to look at himself.

An hour later, Willow straightened her clothes and walked out of the en-suite bathroom.

The woman in the mirror had flushed eyes and smeared lipstick. There were several dark marks on her neck that couldn't be easily hidden.

She stared at them for a few seconds but didn't immediately reach for her concealer.

Lawrence sat on the sofa, smoking a cigarette. His expression was indifferent, acting as if nothing had just transpired between them.

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