Chapter 184
Kaleb approached me and said, “I will wash with you, and after we finish, we will go to bed.” I have always been reserved. Kaleb’s words instantly overheated my CPU, causing my face to turn bright red. My whole body felt like a cooked shrimp, my heart pounding and my embarrassment driving me almost insane. As he approached, I nervously stepped back, trembling, my voice and breathing all in disarray.“Kaleb, are you crazy? I… I don’t want to shower with you, I don’t want to… to sleep with you.”
After saying these words, I turned around anxiously and hurriedly ran towards the room, swiftly slamming the door shut and locking it. I leaned against the door panel, covering my flushed cheeks, feeling both hot and embarrassed, speechless to the extreme!
Outside the door, Kaleb was also hot. He walked to the balcony, propping himself up against the window with one hand, lowering his head, and taking a deep breath. After a moment of contemplation, he turned back to my door. He knocked on the door.
I was startled and nervously turned around, leaning against the door.“Kaleb, I told you not to.” I hoped for the natural joy that comes after genuinely liking something, rather than expressing desires in a straightforward and hellishly violent way. If we skip the details like holding hands, hugging, and kissing, and directly take a shower together and go to bed… it was as if he wanted me dead!
At that moment, Kaleb’s voice came from outside the door. “Katrina, every time you bring up divorce, the underlying message is that you want to sleep with me. If there’s another time, there’s no point in hiding.”
I was dumbfounded! Speechless and shocked, unable to utter a single word.
I breathed a sigh of relief as I faintly heard the sound of the door closing in the next room. I covered my hot face and went to get my clothes to take a shower. I had already made up my mind to divorce Kaleb. I didn’t expect Kaleb’s reaction to be so strong; his refusal to divorce surprised and puzzled me. I considered myself not stupid, with decent reasoning skills, but I couldn’t figure out Kaleb’s thoughts, and didn’t understand what he was
