After barely an hour, Gwen was beginning to feel exhausted and shivering from the cold. Therefore, Luke brought her to a nearby hotel to spend the rest of the day.
Unfortunately, the couple in the room the next day were exceptionally passionate, and the sound coming from the other side of the wall made Gwen blush.
Luke had wanted to request a room change, but due to the snowstorm, the hotel was unfortunately fully booked for the night, and they had no other rooms available. Therefore, they had no choice but to ignore the noises from next door and instead lay on the bed in each other’s arms, talking about everything under the sun.
Finally, the two of them eventually drifted off to sleep.
Despite being in deep slumber, Gwen’s arms were wrapped tightly around Luke’s waist as though she was worried that he would disappear the moment she let go.
The next day, the morning sun seeped between the half–drawn curtains, landing on the bed where Gwen and Steven lay.
Steven opened his eyes.
His eyes widened as soon as he caught sight of the woman in his eyes.
He could not remember how he had ended up here, nor how he had ended up tangled in between Gwen’s arms.
All he remembered was storming to the hotel to confront Thomas after failing to find Denise. However, Thomas did not seem at all apologetic and instead provoked him so much that he could not help swinging a punch at him.
That was the last thing he remembered.
However…
Time seemed to stop as he stared at Gwen’s face, her lips curled into a small smile as she slept.
His brain was telling him that Gwen must have gotten drunk, or that she must have mistaken him for Luke somehow, but…
He did not want to push her away or wake her up.
He wanted her to sleep a little longer and hold her a little longer.
However, fate seemed to have other plans.
As he stared at her sleeping profile, thinking he would have a lot longer to look at her, his phone rang.
Steven’s entire body lurched when he heard his phone ring. He quickly snatched his phone up and silenced it before checking the caller ID.
It was Denise.
His face broke out in a delighted smile as he picked up the call.
However, he did not want to wake Gwen at all, so he lowered his voice to barely above a whisper, “Denise, where are you?”
Denise’s voice sounded like she had been crying. “I’m fine, Steven.”
Despite this, Steven could tell that something was wrong. “Where are you now? I’ll go find you immediately.”
“No, I’m fine.”
Denise shook her head. “I really am, Steven. I’ll…I’ll go home in a while to pack my things so… I can move out. Sean helped me find a place to stay.”
Steven furrowed his brow when he heard this. “Where on earth will you be staying?
“Denise, please be reasonable. You go home right now, and I’ll meet you there! I need to talk to you!”
Denise was silent for a long time before finally sighing. “Alright. I’ll ask Sean to send me home right now. I’ll wait for you at the gates. I need to talk to you too.”
“Alright.”
Steven sighed. “I’ll head home right now.”
With that, he hung up the phone.
As he put down his phone, however, he instinctively snuck a glance in Gwen’s direction.
Even though he had tried his best to keep his voice down, it still woke Gwen anyway.
At this moment, she was staring at him with a sleepy look in her eyes, but her arms were still wrapped around his body.
Surprise flashed through her eyes when she realized what was happening.
“You’re awake…”
Steven broke out into an awkward smile. “I didn’t mean to wake you… I’m sorry.”
Gwen immediately sprung out of bed when she heard this.
This was not Luke anymore.
This was Steven.
Her dream finally ended.
“I’m sorry, I must’ve gotten drunk last night and mistook you for Luke.”
She did not intend to tell Steven the truth about his split personality disorder and instead took the blame. “How’s Denise now?”
Steven shook his head. “She wants to pack her bags and move out. I’m not sure what happened to her, but I asked her to meet me at home so I can talk to you.”
“Does that mean we should go back now?”
Gwen thought about this for a moment, then nodded. “Well, if that’s the case, we should leave soon.”
“Alright.”
Steven nodded, stood up, and went into the bathroom to freshen up.
Gwen stood outside the door, listening to the splashing of water from inside the room, and closed her eyes.
“Goodbye,” she whispered under her breath and turned to leave.
Steven had just picked up a towel to wipe his face when he heard the door close behind him.
He knew that Gwen had left, but he did not intend to beg her to stay.
He knew that she did not love him.
If he was not Luke’s twin, if he did not possess Luke’s body as his own, she would never have given him the time of day. Steven knew full well just how little he mattered to Gwen, and thus did not intend to use what happened the night before to keep her by his side.
She had the right to leave.
“Steven!”
All of a sudden, the door swung open, and Gwen’s voice rang out from outside, “Come out, quick!”
Steven’s entire body froze when he heard this.
He threw his towel aside and stormed out the door. “What’s wrong?”
The sight before him shook him to the core.
A couple was standing in front of the room next door, and the woman staring back at him was none other than Denise!
At this moment, Denise’s face was flushed red with tears brimming in her eyes, and she had a man’s coat draped over her shoulders.
The man standing next to her was tall and slender with tanned skin that made him look handsome and roguish.
Steven was so stunned that he could not say a word.
Gwen had already regained her composure by this time, and a small smile crept across her face. “Were you in the room next to us all this while?”
She still remembered all the noises she heard from the room next door.
The hotel’s soundproofing was quite bad, so she could clearly hear the woman’s cries of pleasure and the man’s passionate groans. The two of them had been engulfed in throes of pleasure, so much so that even Luke was irritated.
However, because he was possessing Steven’s body, he could not bring himself to do anything more than kissing and cuddling Gwen.
The noise was so unbearable that at one point, Luke even went down to the lobby to request a room change to no avail, due to the hotel being fully booked as a result of the snowstorm outside.
Therefore, he and Gwen were forced to listen to a whole night of torture.
However, Gwen never thought that the couple next door would turn out to be Denise and Sean!
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.