Chapter Fifty-Four How complicated things have suddenly become these last few days. We still enjoy our arrangement, the s*x, and each other’s company, but a gloom has also settled over the house, like a haze of pale smoke that we can ignore, but can’t deny is there. Especially after the French lawyer who represents her parents came by, took a look at us, heard my proposal, with his nose in the air, barely disguising his disgust with Chloé, who according to his own words, is living in sin. My blood boils just thinking about it. “I have already instructed a representative to buy their castle, and we’ll gift it afterwards to Chloé. They don’t need to know about it. If one day there’s a chance she wants to see her parents and heal their relationship, which I very much doubt, she’ll have thi

