Chloe Bishop laughed softly and wrapped her arms around Xavier Grayson's neck. "So no matter how you test me, no matter how you humiliate me, I should just smile and keep pleasing you, right?"
"Huh. That's humiliation to you?"
Her faint fragrance drifted into his nose. His expression remained cold as he grabbed her slender wrist, his grip merciless. "Then let me tell you — this kind of 'humiliation' will keep happening. So you'd better get rid of that fragile little heart of yours."
His grip was brutal. Chloe Bishop felt like her wrist was about to snap. She gritted her teeth against the pain. "If you're so worried I still have feelings for Liam Martin, then why are you making me attend tomorrow's dinner?"
"Worried?"
He laughed — a cold, hollow sound. "Chloe Bishop, don't flatter your
