The Stranger I Married - Chapter 69: Take it off

... said, after the quiet unraveling of the walls she’d carried around like armor for years, he still waited.

His hand slid up from her thigh to her waist, fingers curling just lightly against the fabric of her worn sweatshirt, as if testing the shape of permission. His gaze dropped to her lips, but his breath hitched like a man fighting restraint with everything he had.

Ella’s heart thundered in her ears.

It wasn’t nervousness now—it was anticipation. The quiet, shivering ac ...