Filed to story: A Second Chance with My Billionaire Love
Nonetheless, she could not help closing her eyes and answering his kiss.
As he pulled away reluctantly after a long while, he asked with a raspy voice and a light tone, “Is this definitive enough for you?”
Fiery passions seemed to linger in the air, leaving it steaming and charged with excitement.
Leia pursed her lips and shyly lowered her head, not unlike a virgin that just had a taste of the forbidden fruit, as she murmured meekly, “l-l think so..”
“Good. Then don’t let your mind wander anymore, and feel with your heart,” Xavier told her solemnly.
Though he was certainly unreliable and almost too used to charminghaving decks of premeditated conversation at the ready to bewitch the ladies, he was somehow clumsy now that he got serious, and his charm seemed to fly out of the window.
Still, Leia found everything so hard to believe and looked up at him with seriousness in her eyes. “You kissed me… Does that mean you love me?”
Xavier nodded. “Yes. I kissed you, and I love you—I want to start a meaningful relationship with you.”
He did not run away this time and gave her a definitive answer.
“Oh, you finally came around! My faith is really rewarded!” Leia exclaimed in joy, not holding back at all just then as he eagerly wrapped her arms around his neck. ’So? Was kissing me beautiful? Is your heart racing?”
“Hmm…” Xavier frowned in thought for a while before saying seriously, “It’s a little spicy.”
“Haha! That’s spicy? Don’t you know that I’m feeling embarrassed about this?”
“Well, it really was spicy… Just like pepper crayfish.”
The man held back a laugh as he confessed his true feelings.
Her lips were soft, but the taste of spiciness lingered since she had so much pepper crayfish.
It was memorable, just like she was to him.
“Oh, you mean that?! I’m so embarrassed I could die!” Leia buried her face behind her palms, feeling so embarrassed she needed to hide right then.
“It’s alright,” Xavier chuckled. “That sort of spiciness applies too. I have faith in your potential.”
With those words, Xavier scooped Leia up in his arms, brimming with a boyfriend’s energy.
They headed to the bedroom-the night was still young, and there was still much to be done.
***
The next day, Leia woke up feeling reinvigorated in heart and spirit, finding it a little unreal to see the handsome face asleep beside her.
In reality, they did not do anything at all-Xavier’s heart bled for her after she was bullied thoroughly in prison, and he tended to her wounds, then held her in his arms as they slept.
She was the one who was getting restless with her dainty hands, caressing him all over as if challenging his resolve.
Still, he did not give in to her flirting at all and held her in his arms with his eyes closed.
“Calm down,” he said with some detachment. “There’s no need to jump into action-we have years ahead of us.”
And now, she stared at him as he lay sound asleep, complaining inwardly about how he was usually a Casanova that bedded every woman he met, but he turned out to be so… chaste when it came to her.
She could not help lowering her gaze at her loose pajamas, wondering if she was too plain to whet his appetite.
The thought alarmed her, and she mustered her courage to lean in and kiss Xavier’s lips, waking him right then.
“Ugh…” Xavier was still in a daze when he found the cutie throwing herself into his arms.
And who could resist such temptation? He turned and moved on top of her. “You’re a little inexperienced, Leia. Let me give you a few pointers.”
It was a lazy weekend, fit for relaxing. Even the sun seemed languid.
However, just as they were about to go right down to business, Leia sharply said something.
‘Wait!”
“Wait? Why? Don’t you know that men get particularly hungry in the mornings-”
“Shut up! You’re the one who told me to calm down last night!”
“Last night was last night. It’s morning now,” Xavier retorted, clearly eager to get going.
“No, that’s not it! I think someone just opened the door!” Leia snapped. She gathered all her ability for restraint and reluctantly pushed him away.
Her hearing was sharp as ever, and she definitely heard the front door open.
“Is that your mother?” She suggested and promptly sat upto straighten her hair and clothesshe did not want her future mother-in-law to think her unseemly.
“Fine, I’ll check,” Xavier’s head cleared up just then, and put on a pair of trousers while his hair remained disheveled-a fact that did little to curb his charm.
Having calmed down, that aloof demeanor that returned to him became so bewitching once again.
His towering figure soon stepped out of the bedroom, though his relaxed expression soon turned cool and contorted when he saw the woman sitting in the living room.
“What are you doing here?” He demanded, his hands in his pocket while his gaze was as cool as ice.
“I missed you,” the woman’s eyes were red as she threw herself into his arms. “Don’t you want to know how much?”
Xavier stood stiffly in place as she told her coolly, ‘You should have known better. What’s the point of saying all that now?!”
“I made a mistake, Xavier. Can’t you forgive me? I’ve already made it clear to the old man that I would be with you… even if he’s going to cancel me!”
The woman grabbed his waist like her life depended on it and cried a river— she was none other than Shirley White, the star actress whom Xavier brought to stardom and the one who occupied a part of his heart-and the reason he had a chip on his shoulder!
Their story was one you would find in romance novels-the rich showbiz tycoon falling in love at first sight with the young actress with modest roots. He then broke the bank to push her towards stardom, even keeping himself chaste for her, as if Casanova himself decided to reform…
In fact, anyone searching for Xavier’s name online would always yield results for Shirley as well. Countless netizens fawned over them, wrote fanfiction, and shipped them to kingdom come.
And yet, this heartwarming ship suddenly capsized as they drifted apart. They were never seen together since last year, and they now seemed to be complete strangers. Xavier once again regained his reputation as a Casanova.
Even so, Shirley’s career was unaffected-in fact, it even rose to new heights. It was, therefore, inevitable that rumors of Shirley finding herself a new backer started circulatingshe betrayed Xavier after all he did for her, who in turn reverted to his old ways…
“Ahem!”
Leia cleared her throat awkwardly even as she stayed in bed, having seen them hugging at the door.
‘There’s… someone else?”
Shirley did not seem to panic as she looked up from Xavier’s arms, looking past his shoulder to the woman on the bed.
She was no idiot—she knew there was another woman in Xavier’s bed the instant she stepped through that door.
“Xavier, if this is how you wanted to get back at me, congratulations.