Chapter 42

—JENNIFER—

My sleep was broken because of the loud rumbling of my stomach. Midnight cravings are a different thing but I was hella hungry tonight. Because of all the attention in the party I couldn't eat properly and when I finally had made my mind about taking care of my stomach, it went into another direction and I ended up sitting in Christian's lap with him talking weird stuff that made me forget that I was hungry because that time, my stomach was full with thousands of fluttering butterflies.

And whatever happened afterwards, I didn't have the courage to stand him another second and locked myself up in my room. It was almost two in the morning when I checked the time before heading out towards the kitchen as my stomach rumbled continuously.

On my way, I saw the lights of his study still turned on and realising that Christian is still up, My first thought was to turn and run back to lock myself up again. But another rumble had me keep going. This time, with careful steps. I ope