Sinfully Yours by Mirah Selim (best e reader for manga txt) 📕

"It's fine Cyrus. Happens but if you want to learn I can help you." Cyrus instantly shook his head.

"No! I am not going to even step in that place again. I want to eat the food you will make for the rest of my life." Saying that he kissed her hands.

It wasn't like he didn't want to learn, he just didn't want to let the chance to eat the food made by her go. He had never loved any food this much the way he loves the food made by her. Even the greatest chefs couldn't meet the flavor her cooking brings.

"Go and get ready we have to meet your mother." Hazel nodded.

"Aren't you going to the company?" He smiled at her shaking his head.

"I have more important work to be done first, and that is convincing your mother." She smiled staring at him.

It was still kind of hard to believe how can someone change this much. Maybe the famous saying that 'love can change people' was right. And indeed it was. Loving her changed him.

Time Skip

"Why are you here now? You didn't care about leaving me last night for this despicable man." Her mother sneered shooting a glare at Cyrus who was calmly sitting beside Hazel facing her mother.

"Mom." She mumbled feeling upset at her mother's harsh words. She wanted Cyrus to show her mother his better side yet the way he was sitting and behaving, he seemed only arrogant.

Keeping one foot on the thigh of his other leg he was staring at his mother with his cold eyes. He kind of looked like the Cyrus she knew before. Cold and cruel. The Cyrus who looked at her with only a soft gaze and smile was nowhere to be seen. And that was scaring her, if he kept on being like this her mother will never accept him.

"Hazel leave us alone. I want to talk to your mother alone." Hazel looked at Cyrus with hesitant eyes before looking at her mother who was only observing Cyrus.

"But Cyrus--" He turned his head to her and within a second his gaze soften which didn't go unnoticed by her mother.

"Just trust me, sweetheart." Sighing heavily she nodded and left the living room.

After Hazel closed the door sparing a glance at Cyrus who gave her a small smile his face instantly turned ice cold. He turned his blank gaze towards the mother of his woman. Making himself more comfortable on the couch he stared at the glaring woman.

"I know it's hard to accept me after all the things I did to your daughter in the past." He said and Mrs. Astor scoffed.

"Hard? No, it's impossible. I can't accept and entrust my daughter to you." He raised his hand making her stop speaking.

"But don't you think if I was still the same cruel man who hurt her once why would she come back to me? Have you ever questioned yourself why would Hazel want to be with me if I would be the same man?" This silenced her making Cyrus continue speaking.

"Because the truth is she didn't accept the man who hurt her once. She accepted the man who changed himself for her. Who learned to respect her and her wishes. The one who madly loves her." Her mother stared at him trying to find any lie but nothing all his eyes screamed was honesty.

"I love your daughter. And everything I confessed to you before was the things I did when I didn't even know the meaning of love. I was wrong. I did her wrong and I will not deny it. I accept that I was a monster to her once and I still am a cruel man. But not for her and for the people she cares about. I wouldn't say or promise much because I am not good at words." He paused before removing his leg from his thigh and leaning his body forward staring at the woman.

"But I promise you I will never let even single harm come near her. I will protect her with my life, with my everything. So trust your daughter's choice for once and last. Accept us." Finishing his words he stood up straightening his coat.

"I am going to pick her up at night. My men are still out of your house guarding it. Till then have a good day." With that, he walked out finding Hazel strolling around the garden. He smiled walking near her.

"Darling." She turned around hastily looking at him with a nervous gaze.

"You can talk to your mother. Don't be too tensed she will accept us." Hazel sighed making a sad face.

"And what if she didn't?" She mumbled to herself but Cyrus was fast enough to hear. He moved his bulky arm to her wrapping it around her waist and tugging her body closer to him. She gasped in surprise placing her hands over his shoulders and snapping her eyes to his.

The intensity his eyes held made her shudder. "Whatever her decision will be doesn't matter anymore. You're mine. And I am never letting you go. I did let you go once and died once. Now I want to live. Live with you. None matters to me anymore. Only you and just you." With that, she breathed shakily when he softly placed a kiss on the corner of her lips.

He let his lips linger over her flesh for some time before finally letting her go. "I will pick you up at night." Pecking her cheek for the last time he walked out making her stare at his back.

Her ears and nose burn at the intensity of his words which made her heartbeat run like a rollercoaster. She took a deep breath patting her chest. She never knew she liked this feeling. Hazel was naturally submissive, but a fan of a soft and loving touch. Even though Cyrus used to be a sadist when it comes to touching a woman. But after Hazel, he also started liking a soft and gentle attitude while getting intimate with her.

"Mom, why are you so silent?" Hazel for the past half an hour was talking with her mother while she was only staring at her daughter without saying anything.

"You were so quiet for the last two months. But seeing you looking so lively right now I think I was really wrong about you making this decision because Cyrus might have threatened you but no. You look like you went after him with your wish." Hazel smiled grabbing her mother's hands.