Mason Nightshade carried Aurelia Shaw upstairs.
Seeing this, the maid silently locked the door and returned to her room.
Mason laid Aurelia on the bed, leaned over her, and pinned her hands above her head.
Mason released her, "Still trying to tease me?"
"Are you so easily teased?" Aurelia asked with a smirk, her eyes slightly raised in challenge.
"What do you think?" Mason countered, "When have I ever had any resistance to you?"
Aurelia thought carefully.
Perhaps today's affair with Balthazar touched a sensitive nerve; she was particularly hung up on the past, "Before, I chased you for so long before you reluctantly agreed to marry me. If Balthazar hadn't offered so many shares as a dowry, and if the Nightshade Family hadn't needed that money or the Shaw Family's support, you certainly wouldn't have married me."
"Back then, it was all an act."
