Chapter 69: Next Time, Get Undressed Yourself

"Serena, do you really have to pretend with me? Before you met Zachary, you were more than cooperative in bed. Now that there's another man, you suddenly start resisting, huh?" His eyes, once heated with desire, now looked void of any emotion. I couldn't read him at all. Hearing him bring up Zachary again made my blood boil. What had gotten into Arthur today? What had Zachary ever done to deserve this kind of hostility? And besides, nothing had happened between me and Zachary. Arthur had no right to speak about me like that. "Let me make one thing clear," I snapped. "There's nothing sordid between Zachary and me. We're dating for the purpose of marriage. Unlike what you and I have, which is just sex." I met his eyes, my voice firm. No matter how complicated my feelings were, at least with Zachary, things were clean and honest. He was a decent man. We had known each other for nearly a month, and he had never once crossed the line. "Already jumping to defend him, huh?" Arthur's voice sha