Chapter 1347: Chapter 1344: I Want to Inspect the Goods

When the forty minutes had passed and the first personality had not left yet,

Lily became even more certain that her strategy was working.

She had thought a lot over these seven days and had come to a clear understanding.

Aidan Lucas was not a man so weak as to tolerate betrayal and humiliation.

If she, a woman who had betrayed him, deliberately humiliated him, it might just provoke him to come back to her.

Thinking this, Lily put her plan into action, even though she knew Aidan Lucas who returned would not love her as before, but she still wanted him to come back.

To her surprise, the effect was unexpectedly good.

The 40 minutes had passed, and unlike before, Aidan Lucas did not disappear immediately.

Instead, he pulled her down onto the sofa and said in a somewhat playful tone, “Strip, I need to ‘inspect the goods’.”

“‘Inspect the goods’?” Lily was pulled out of her thoughts.

Seeing her reluctance, the man had already begun unbuttoning the first button of her clothes by himself.

Today Lily was wearing a skirt set, a light pink overcoat and skirt, with a pearl-white silk blouse underneath.

This kind of blouse stood no chance against Aidan Lucas’s rough handling.

“If I don’t ‘inspect’, how would I know if you’re worth several hundred million?”

Having said that, he effortlessly ripped all the buttons off the blouse.

The scenery was brazenly revealed.

“Aidan Lucas–” She called out his name in shame and anger.

Even though Lily had been prepared, actually being treated like a commodity still overwhelmed her with shame and indignation.

“Heh, you act all pure and virtuous but you’re nothing but a slut,” he said spitefully, yet his breathing visibly hitched when he saw Lily.

Damn it–

This detestable woman, even after a separation of four years, could still effortlessly pull at his heartstrings.

He noticed her slender shoulders trembling slightly.

An unexpected urge rose within him to draw her into his arms, to whisper reassurances, to tell her not to be afraid.

Aidan Lucas forcefully suppressed the pity welling up in his heart.

He reminded himself that this woman who had betrayed him, who had abandoned her husband and child, deserved no sympathy.

“When you were in bed with other men, did you also pretend to be so pure and virtuous?” Aidan Lucas lifted Lily’s chin, his rough thumb lightly grazing her soft lips.

Soon, her pale pink mouth was rubbed into a flushed red.

Even though the first personality was not as direct in method as the second, Aidan Lucas had never been a saint.

His tenderness was something he showed only after giving his true heart, and it had been solely for Lily.

Now that he no longer loved her, he naturally reverted back to being the inscrutable, superior Aidan Lucas.

Faced with this version of him, Lily felt as though she had plunged into a frigid cellar.

It was as if they had returned to the beginning, to the time when they had first met.

She became his pet once more, pampered and trained.

Compliant and obedient, she would receive a bit of warmth.

But if she angered her master, she would be ruthlessly kicked away.

Seeing the hint of water in her pretty, peach blossom eyes, Aidan Lucas’s deep almond-shaped eyes narrowed.

He warned, “Lily Gray, don’t try the tricks on me that you use on other men. This kind of coquettish refusal and coming on then off, you’ve used it on me once before. If there’s a second time, I’ll disable you.”

As he spoke, his coarse palm continued to descend.

Trailing over her slender neck, down over her rounded, jade-like shoulders…

Leaving behind distinct red marks on her fair and delicate skin without an ounce of pity.

“Ah–” Pain forced a muffled groan from Lily.

The next second, before she could react, the man suddenly pushed her away from his embrace,

Letting her fall into the corner of the sofa.