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Chapter 24
"Hell no!" Rafael said without blinking twice.
He was sure he would do something stupid and she will stay mad at him for eternity.
Ruhi gulped in fear when she saw him shirtless. Now she understood why he wanted the heater blasting so high in such cold weather... so that he could roam around almost naked. She frowned at how low his waistband was before looking away.
They fought indirectly more than twice last week about how cold she wanted her room to be because she liked to bury herself under extra thick blankets. The maid conveying the messages for them went crazy and called in sick the next morning.
"Please... I don't want your bed. I just need you in the same room."
The sky rumbled some more, and she looked at him with puppy eyes, hoping he would let her sleep on the extra foldable bed that she saw in the closet once when she was moving some of her stuff to his bedroom to confuse the maids.
To cope with t
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