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Chapter 42
Author: Harmeen
last update2025-12-28 21:25:55

Amelia quickly fixed the room, then brought out a set of loose sweatpants and sweatshirts that she had bought one day, for absolutely no reason as her mind drifted to the image of Coulter in her robe that had been far too small.

She went down, and Coulter had already fixed the entire place and was sitting on the couch, his sleeves rolled up, his hair framing his face and falling in front of the glasses.

"You can go take a bath now. In my room."

Coulter chuckled at her specification. The penthouse was big enough so both of them could absolutely live here and never have to cross paths, so her insistence that her bed was large and that she had fixed the bath in her room was like her own way of making sure her knew he was sharing her room.

He didn't have an objection, however. He stood up, rolling his sleeves a little further up. He got to where she was standing, her hair pulled up in a loose, messy bun. She was wearing a soft pink pair of cute pyjamas, one that only made her wven more
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