The CEO’s Billion Dollar Bride
Chapter 1213 - 1192: It’s useless to keep it, better to scrap it!

Maya’s face turned beet red with anger, yet she dared not meet his gaze due to its piercing intensity.

Just as she turned her head away, he forcefully twisted it back to lock eyes with her, Maya stiffened as she could see a sort of profound pain being deeply suppressed in his eyes; her heart felt as though it was being stabbed by an invisible needle, constantly reminding herself that this man was not suitable to be her lifelong partner. Yet, she couldn’t control her reaction to his gaze!

Women truly are damned fools!

"I don’t have a woman!"

Graham just stared motionlessly into her eyes, "Maya, I, Graham Stones, am a scoundrel. I’ve had many women in the past, but that’s over. Since being with you, I haven’t been with any other women. You’re not my first, but you are my last woman. If you don’t believe me, then go ahead and cut me!"

Before Maya could snap out of her astonishment, Graham’s sharp eyes caught a pair of scissors on the bedside table, he reached out, grabbed them, and placed them in Maya’s hand, "Maya, go ahead and cut me. Surely, I was a scoundrel before. Had I not met you again, I would have considered becoming a monk. If you don’t want to sleep with me, then cut me, so I can stay by your side peacefully and just take care of you!"

Maya was completely dumbfounded. It was no surprise to her that she wasn’t his first woman; he wouldn’t even know who his first was, given his wild youth and countless past flings. Yet it was unexpected to hear she would be his last. The words came from Graham’s mouth, and she believed them. This man was too proud to resort to lying. He never explained himself, even when misunderstood, he simply handed over his heart, and the one thing she was sure of was that she understood his nature better than he did.

So, upon hearing those words, she was utterly baffled. Why... why would he say that?

Maya was jolted back to reality by the sound of a belt being unbuckled. When she turned around, Graham had already taken off his belt and was starting to undo his suit pants. Her eyes widened in fright, "What... what are you doing?!"

"I’m taking off my trousers so you can easily cut off this thing that keeps you restless and often makes mistakes!"

Far from stopping because of her words, he quickened his pace, "What do you think I’m doing? Raping you?"

The corners of his lips bore a trace of mockery, before he continued, "Rest assured, I haven’t fallen that low. Unless you give me your consent, I won’t force you to do anything!"

Maya: "..."

Before she could speak, her hand was already gripping the scissors tightly and reaching towards his underwear, "Go ahead and cut it, and then let me stay by your side and Tanya’s!"

"Graham, you’ve lost your mind!"

Maya screamed involuntarily in fright, "You’re insane, this is not funny at all!"

"I’m not joking with you, nor am I crazy. On the contrary, I’ve never been more rational and clear-headed in my life. Maya, I’m paying the price for my youthful sins. But I don’t want that retribution to be a life without a wife and child. I’d rather lose my manhood than my spouse and child!"

Maya wanted to say something but couldn’t utter a word, only feeling a sour sting in the corner of her eyes, as tears fell drop by drop, like beads off a broken string, silently covering her entire cheek.

"Graham..."

"Maya, give me a chance to take care of you both, okay?"

Graham Stones just looked at her deeply, almost choking on each word as he spoke, "Okay?"

"Why does it have to be me? There are millions of women who would be willing to be taken care of by you!"

"But what if I only want you?"

But what if I only want you?

But what if I only want you?

Why, upon hearing these words, did her heart beat so uncontrollably, warmly, sweetly, as if reigniting the heart she once desperately tried to suppress, with pain spreading endlessly...

It was like returning to the scene of the auction that year, when she first saw him, falling from the sky, coincidentally meeting a man’s amazed eyes, that familiar heartbeat, and she...

"You don’t dare to cut, or do you think I’m joking?"

Seeing the woman only shedding tears, Graham Stones still maintained that light and breezy laughter. The next moment, before Maya could even react to these words, the scissors that she was forced to hold were snatched away by the man, clutched tightly in his grip, then cut towards his suit pants instinctively...

"You don’t dare to cut, I’ll cut for you!"

"No! Stop!!!"

Both voices rose almost at the same time, the woman’s voice overpowering with its intensity, completely drowning out the man’s voice. Maya, sweating profusely, looked at him with terrified eyes, her hands gripping the scissors tightly, as if she wanted to yank them from his grasp and plunge them into her own heart.

Clearly, she still held feelings for him in her heart; she just didn’t want to believe it. Perhaps she could live well without him, but if he was not doing well, she would certainly feel it too. This was the kind of selfless love a woman could offer, and Graham was a very clever man.

He noticed this kind of thing at a glance. Since her weakness was right here, how could he possibly give up?

"Why not?"

Graham unconsciously tightened his grip, "This thing, without a wife and kids, is useless to keep. Might as well be done with it!"

"You can have a bunch of kids with the woman you like!"

"No, besides you, I have no interest in any other woman, let alone having children!"

At this moment, a heartfelt confession was necessary, but just confessing wasn’t enough. There had to be an element of acting cute and playing pitiful, "Unless, you give me a chance to take care of you and Tanya!"

"What if I say Tanya isn’t your daughter? Would you still take care of her?"

Maya retorted without even thinking.

"Of course, no matter whose daughter she is, as long as she is your daughter, I am willing to take care of her!" Even if he had to raise another man’s daughter, she would still be his wife’s child. After all, he was the scoundrel first; he had no right to demand her undivided loyalty. This much he understood deeply only through experience, "So, Maya, stop testing me to find out the reason I want to be with you. If you really have to test it, just go ahead and cut me!"