Unlike the cautious, tentative touches of their youth, thirty-year-old Gu Yan scooped her up horizontally, kicking open the bedroom door with a force that made the frame shudder.
"Shen Xiaonian," he said, dropping her onto the bed and looming over her, one elbow braced beside her ear while a dangerous undercurrent surged in his eyes. "I'm giving you one last chance. If you—"
"I won't." She tilted her chin up to kiss his Adam's apple, her nimble fingertips unbuttoning the hem of his shirt. "I swear."
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