I nched. Where the hell did thate from?!


    I shook my head, getting rid of every thought rted to Aiden but who was I kidding? I was in his room.


    Finally, I moved to sit on the bed and that was when I realized that since Aiden brought me to the room, while he cleared up stuff, I remained standing in that one position.


    I closed my eyes and groaned. No wonder he looked like he couldn''t wait to leave the room. I must have really made him ufortable.


    Losing myself in the plushness of the mattress as Iid in it, I admired the room from that point. Seems the interior design of all the rooms were the same.


    Later, I removed my clothes and dragged myself to the bathroom where I had a long shower while 1 inspected some of his skincare products. They smelled nice as usual but different from the ones he used to use. I was really tempted to try some of them. He always picked the best skincare products. But I was stopped by the morbid imagination of him catching a whiff of one of them on me.


    I didn''t think I could live through that embarrassment.


    Dressed up in my night wear, I jumped into bed, exhausted from all the enthusiasm I had to keep up during dinner to wave off the incessant questions about the incident at the challenge. Just as I closed my eyes, I heard a knock on the door.


    I sat up with a frown. The knock came again.


    "Ana, it''s Aiden."


    "Come in," I piped up. When he entered, he nced at the door.


    "You didn''t lock the door?"


    I shrugged, "Do I need to? It''s your room, you should be able toe in anytime."


    "Sorry. I just forgot something." he exined with an apologetic smile as he moved toward the drawer and fished something from it.


    All the while, he looked in a hurry and I couldn''t help but feel bad. It was so unfair. I was upying his room and still making him ufortable.


    "You cane sleep here," I said, hoping to ease him up a bit.


    He looked over at me and I could feel the tension in the air as he stared at the space beside me. Or on either side of me, because I was centred in the middle of the bed.


    I blinked, realizing that he might have misunderstood my request.


    "...I don''t mean here," I ttened my palm on either side of me. "There," I pointed to the only couch in the room few feet from the bed.


    "It''s okay," he smiled and shook my head.Content ? N?velDrama.Org 2024.


    "No, please, I wonder how that room is. Since it''s a spare room, a dark one at that, it''s probably not been


    althy to


    cleaned in a while. It''s not healthy to stay in a dusty room."


    Then with that, Iid back down and covered myseelf with the nket from head to toes.


    My eyes widened under the darkness of the nket. Okay, what did I just do?! Why did I do that?!


    I closed my eyes, silently hoping that he wouldn''t listen to me.


    Oh, so he should go suffocate in a dusty room. My subconscious used and I felt myself weighed down by guilt but I didn''t stop hoping he''d prefer to stay in the room. It may seem selfish but it was all for the best. How? I asked myself but the answer to that eluded me.


    For a while, I heard the sound of a drawer open and close, a shuffle here and there then the door closed


    softly.


    I peeked out 6if the nket and when I saw that he was out of the room, I sighed, greatly relieved. Pulling the nket off my head, Iy on my back and stared up at the ceiling, my mind nk.


    Then the door was creaking open again. In a sh, I had the nket over my head again.


    After a few seconds, I peeked out to see him spreading the nkets he left with earlier on the couch.


    He''s really returned to sleep on the couch.