Chapter 4 A Present For You

Moonlight filtered into the room through the floor-to-ceiling window and onto a sleepless Scarlett as she listened to the steady breathing of the man beside her. She took advantage of the moonlight to look at him, only to see his large, seductive back... For the past seven years, they would always sleep on the same bed after sex. Yet, whenever she opened her eyes, she would either be alone or he would face his back against her. She wanted so badly to tell him that she had only learned about Lucy's leukemia when he asked her to donate her bone marrow. She had signed up as a bone marrow donor by coincidence. After finding out that she was a match for Lucy, she agreed to help without even thinking about it. Still, she didn't think that he would believe her even if she told him. That wicked idea had come to her suddenly, and she somehow garnered the courage to make an outrageous request: "If you sign the contract and marry me, I'll save her." She had been too desperate for Jude and his