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Dangerous Love: You Are My One and Only Bride novel Chapter 798

A smile flitted through Jackson’s eyes. He rose and tailed Tiffany back into the bedroom.

She took off her jacket, leaving her camisole and skinny jeans on, before climbing to bed. Meanwhile, Jackson, all dressed up in an actual nightie, looked at her and asked cryptically, “Well, aren’t you gonna take those jeans off? I’m not even gonna talk about how filthy it must be from wearing it the entire day. Instead, my question is, doesn't it feel stuffy and uncomfortable for sleep?”

She shot him a glare. “Nice try, but I’m not taking it off! If you think it’s filthy, then don’t sleep with me!”

Then, after remembering that this was, in fact, his home, an embarrassed Tiffany added after mustering enough sense of self-righteousness, “You’re the one who insisted that I come here!”

Jackson went to his closet in mild annoyance and tossed one of his thin white sweaters at her. “What I meant was that you should change into something else that would make sleeping much more comfortable. Don’t worry — my shirt is long enough to cover your knees.”

Tiffany’s silence was one of tacit agreement. She snatched the sweater and headed into the bathroom.

After her change, she was shocked to see that Jackson had not been exaggerating its length — the sweater’s cuff almost terminated over her knees. Had he always been this tall? More importantly, why did she feel like she was a little kid wearing an adult’s clothes?

Upon seeing her with his clothes on, Jackson gibed, “Yo, it really did reach your knees! Holy sh*t, you’re small!”

Tiffany grabbed a pillow and decked it across his face. “Excuse me! It’s your shirt that’s too big! It’s not me!”

“Okay, okay! You win! My shirt’s too big!” he said, faking submission.

The two laid down on the bed, and silence returned.

Tanya took the bottle without feeling any sense of alarm and drank it. “I hadn’t even told Tiffany that I won’t be back for the night! She must be beside herself worrying. Please, can you send me home right now? I promise we’ll watch that beautiful view together next time.”

A beat of silence later, Beckett replied, “Nope. Can’t do. You can’t go yet.”

The unsettling signs finally caught up to Tanya, and her senses heightened. “What was that?”

Beckett pushed his glasses up his nose as a smirk shadowed his lips. “Do you know the reason why I took you on a date and made you so drunk that you blacked-out? It was so that I could force Tiffany Lane to admit that she stole my work. I’ve been working in this scene for ten years, Tanya — ten years of effort brought me so close to fame and recognition. I cannot possibly let it all go to dust just like that! If I win, I own everything. If I lose, I become a disgraced nobody with nothing. Do you know, Tanya, that when I first came here, I had nothing? No money to feed my mouth. No place to take shelter. All I could do is stand on this peak and look over the Capital below my feet, and then I’d scream about how, one day, I’ll finally root myself firmly here, that I’ll become an elite…

“I’m always this close — this close — to success.”

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