Chapter 5

The fever completely broke the next afternoon.

After sleeping through it, I woke up feeling much lighter, though my stomach growled with hunger. I wanted to go downstairs to find something to eat.

Just as I reached the top of the stairs, I heard Kai's friends' voices.

"Kai, you're clearly addicted to Nora, so why won't you touch her?"

"Human girls can't resist temptation. You better watch out or some other wolf will steal her away one of these days."

Kai's voice carried deep exhaustion,

"I'm afraid she hasn't recovered yet. She's still angry with me and won't even talk to me."

"Being angry means she cares! If she really didn't care, she would've asked for a divorce already. Would she even come back to this house?"

"You didn't dare touch her before, and now you don't dare speak up. Wait until Nora really runs off with someone else-you won't even have a place to cry!"

Listening to their conversation, the last of my stubbornness and anger gradually faded.

I took a deep breath, about to walk downstairs and talk everything through with him.

Just then, the doorbell suddenly rang. The crisp chime was particularly jarring in the quiet living room.

Immediately after, two young men's voices came from the entrance, loud enough to penetrate right through the door.

"Is Nora here? We're sent by Jade. She said you weren't feeling well and asked us to come keep you company and cheer you up!"

The conversation in the living room stopped abruptly.

I froze on the stairs, my mind going blank with a buzzing sound.

Oh no.

When I'd been venting to Jade earlier, in the heat of the moment I'd agreed to her suggestion about male models, then completely forgot about it. I never thought she'd actually send people over, and at this exact moment!

The living room fell deathly silent.

The next second, I saw Kai walk to the door.

His voice was as cold as ice. "Get lost."

The two male models outside hesitated, trying to say something more, when Kai spoke again,

"Say one more word and I'll make sure you never leave this neighborhood."

Even through a door, a top-tier Alpha's dominant pressure was enough to make two ordinary human men break out in cold sweat.

The voices outside immediately went silent, followed by panicked, fleeing footsteps.

He slowly turned around.

Looking up, he locked onto me standing on the stairs with pinpoint accuracy.

His friends very tactfully moved toward the door. "Kai, we'll head out now. You and Nora take care."

Kai's gaze fixed on me as he walked toward me step by step.

His eyes were thick with desire that couldn't be dissolved, and the aura around him was frighteningly cold.

He trapped me between himself and the stair railing, his tall figure completely enveloping me.

"Nora," his voice was extremely hoarse, "do you want it that badly?"

My heartbeat skipped. I was about to explain that Jade had messed things up.

He lowered his head, his lips brushing my neck, his hands restlessly moving downward,

"Whatever they can give you, I can give you too. What they can't give, I'll give you even more."

His hand stopped between my legs, and my body couldn't help trembling,

"Nora, give me a chance to be your real husband, okay?"