Vernon's breath started tickling her skin, especially when he bit one button off the pajama to take it off, so he could bury his face until the tip of his nose nudged on the depths of her cleavage.

"Um— uhh…" Chloe moaned softly as Vernon's breath continued tickling her skin.

She didn't know why Vernon suddenly wanted to do this to her. After all, it had been a while since he requested to be serviced by her.

'Did something happen between him and that new woman? I know he's not really the type who can hold a relationship for too long…' Chloe wondered. 'Maybe they fought, and he felt like he wanted to wind up? So, he used my body to relieve himself.'

'After all, I'm just a stand-in…' Chloe thought, as she already acknowledged her contract as Vernon's bed warmer.

'',

Vernon's tight embrace around her waist forced Chloe to spread her leg and sit on top of Vernon's lap.

They were still wearing trousers and pajamas that separated their skin. But the fabric only made Chloe and Vernon feel more sensitive than usual as her labia rubbed against his cock, which had gotten rock hard after hearing Chloe's soft moan.

Chloe's face turned red instantly. She thought Vernon wanted her to do something because he had just fought with her girlfriend and wanted to release his pent-up tension.

So Chloe shyly asked;

"V—Vernon, do you want me to— um… do something?"

Chloe gathered enough courage to start rubbing her pussy lips back and forth against Vernon's rock-hard cock, thinking it was what Vernon wanted.

But Vernon took a deep breath and held Chloe's waist in place, stopping her from doing more.

"Stay still, I don't want that," Vernon instructed.

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"Eh, really?" Chloe was quite confused by Vernon. She thought he was a sex-crazed beast, thus why he started having sex with his new girlfriend.

Meanwhile, Vernon was thinking of a different thing.

Obviously, he had a reaction down there, and he was also sexually frustrated.

But no matter what, he WOULD NOT touch Chloe until she was fully healed of her trauma.

'I want to paint a sweet memory when we're having sex, Chloe…' Vernon said in his heart. 'I am a scum, but I will never be one when I'm with you.'

'Besides, what I want to do right now is to feel your warmth, your heartbeat, and your presence all around me….'

They stayed in this position in silence until Chloe started panicking because Vernon's hot temperature started affecting her, making her sweat, especially inside her cleavage.

"Um... V—Vernon, please release me. I'm sweating. You will feel gross—"

"It's not gross," Vernon said. 'Everything about you is not gross,' he added in his heart.

"But—"

"I said it's not gross, so stop struggling," Vernon repeated, but Chloe kept on struggling because she felt her body start sweating here and there.

Vernon finally lifted his head from Chloe's cleavage and looked up to see the beautiful woman with flushed cheeks staring down at him with her anxious doe eyes.

She looked cute, even if she was a thirty-five-year-old woman, but she still looked youthful and beautiful in Vernon's eyes.

She was the woman who filled Vernon's dream every night.

The woman that became his daydream and nightmare.

The woman who drove him to be a powerful CEO.

Now she was in his embrace, yet her heart wasn't his.

She was still dealing with her trauma that she tried to hide, even though Vernon was desperately pleading with her to open up.

So Vernon was willing to wait and support her behind her back if that meant she would recover.

Vernon knew that he would never do this to another woman. It was only for Chloe. His Big sis Chloe whom he fell in love with when he was only ten, continued to love through the years.

Vernon continued staring at the beauty in his embrace until he noticed the scar on her cheek. It would take a while to recover, and it hurt Vernon's heart whenever he saw it.

'You are under my protection, but why can't I protect you from a simple attack?' Vernon asked himself. He raised one hand to touch the scar, but Chloe quickly dodged before Vernon touched her cheek.

She covered her cheek with one hand to hide the scar, "S—Sorry, I should've worn a mask."

"Why?"

"Because of the scar," Chloe said, adding an awkward laugh in-between. "D—Don't worry, it will be healed soon— I think. Did it disgust you?"

Vernon noticed that Chloe always said something degrading about herself without much thought.

As if she was hard-wired to think that she was ugly and worthless, and Vernon knew who the culprit was.

'My god, what did Vincent do to you, Big sis Chloe?' Vernon asked in his heart. 'You were so confident with yourself when you were young, what had he done to you?'

There were lots of questions in Vernon's mind. However, he couldn't get any answer because Chloe was still ultra-defensive about the things she experienced.

"It's not ugly," Vernon said sincerely.

"Um— Pardon?"

"I said the scar is not ugly," he repeated. "You are beautiful, Chloe. The most beautiful woman I've ever met in my life."

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Chloe's body stiffened as her heart started beating fast. The way Vernon said it— it sounded so genuine.

It gave off the idea that Vernon seriously thought she was the most beautiful woman, and his statement flustered her. Even though she knew well she wasn't pretty.

She was old, and haggard stay-at-home jane doe mom at best.

Besides, Vernon had met so many women in the past ten years. She heard from Diamond that Vernon even dated a real princess once.

"Ahaha— um… t-t-thank you, I guess…." Chloe said as she didn't know how to accept a compliment.

Besides Diamond and Mackie, she had never received compliments for the past ten years. The only thing she got was a bunch of insults from Vincent anyway.