Chapter 720:

    Chloe huffed a short snort, forcing a smile to hide her embarrassment. “Any guy I fall for should consider himself lucky.”

    A pang of bitterness hit Morse in the chest, but he chuckled and kept his tone light. “Oh, no doubt. Guy hit the jackpot.”

    “Obviously,” Chloe replied with a confident nod.

    Morse let out a halfugh, a bit resigned. “Hey, you can hop off now, yeah? My arms are starting to go numb.”

    In truth, his arms didn’t hurt at all. If anything, he wanted to hold her like that forever. The problem was, the longer he did, the more dangerous it felt. The more he wanted, the more afraid he became that he might let his feelings take over and do something he’d regret.

    “Huh?” Chloe blinked, only now realizing just how close they were. Her face flushed, and her ears started burning. That creepy face had scared her so badly she had jumped on Morse without thinking. Now she was practically glued to him—arms, legs, everything wrapped around him like an octopus.

    “What’s wrong? Don’t want to get down? You want me to carry you around like when we were little?” Morse joked,ughing.

    “Wh-who asked you to carry me? I was just scared!” Chloe snapped back, already trying to squirm out of his hold. “Let me down.”

    But Morse, still in a yful mood, faked a look of panic and shouted, “Oh no! Something’s chasing us!”

    “Ahhh! What? Where?” Chloe yelped,pletely freaked out again. She instantly froze and grabbed onto Morse’s neck even tighter, pulling herself right up against him again.

    Morse’s body tensed. The joke stopped being funny. He hadn’t expected her to press against him like that. Not this close. Not like this. Even with both of them fully dressed, he could feel the warmth of her body and how soft she was.

    “Run, Morse! Hurry, go!” Chloe cried, pping his back. Her legs swung frantically as she tried to get him moving. She sounded desperate. But Morse didn’t move. He stood there like a statue, frozen in ce.

    “Morse?” she called out, confused. “Come on, we need to find Christina and the others. We don’t have time—we need to find clues quickly.”

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    Chloe figured Morse was scared, too. She didn’t notice the tiny shifts in his expression that said otherwise.

    “Don’t move,” Morse said, his voice low and rough as he fought to suppress his desire, his breath heavy. He knew that if she kept shifting around, things would spiral out of control fast. She was way too close, and every little movement she made didn’t just mess with his head—it set off a physical reaction he couldn’t ignore.

    Those inappropriate thoughts started screaming louder, slowly eating away at his self-control. If she moved another inch, he wasn’t sure he could keep himself restrained any longer and put her down without crossing a line. He was fighting hard to keep that urge locked away.

    He knew exactly how thin the line was. One wrong move—even a simple kiss on her forehead—and everything would change. When they were kids, that kind of thing was sweet and innocent. Now, as grown-ups, it wasn’t that simple anymore. Especially since Chloe was still so pure and innocent while he was drowning in his desire for her. He couldn’t ruin the perfect brotherly image she had of him. Not like this.

    Chloe didn’t understand why he told her to freeze. She just figured there really was an NPC with a scary face or something nearby. So she stayed as still as she could, even holding her breath. But then she noticed something odd. His body felt hot. Was the NPC so scary that he was almost feverish with fear?

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