She opened her eyes and squinted as they adjusted to the dim light of the room.


    They had somehow moved in their sleep, and Nathan was now lying in her outstretched arm.


    Lucinda touched his face.


    Tears were leaking through his long, curlyshes.


    “Nate? Why are you crying again?”


    Nathan tightened his arms around her and drew closer.


    “I have no idea how I go those marks.


    I’m sorry, please don’t abandon me…”


    So, he was still troubled by the little prank she had yed on him.


    He looked so vulnerable at the moment, despite the stark difference in their frames.


    Another wave of guilt washed over Lucinda.


    She wanted to tell him the truth to reassure him, but she didn’t know how.


    If he found out that she had tricked him, he would be absolutely furious.


    After mulling over it for a bit, Lucinda eventually decided against telling him.


    She settled for patting his back tofort him.


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    “How could I even abandon you? I want you, no one else.


    There is no other man for me.


    You’ve always been the only one, and that will remain true for the rest of my life.


    ”


    Lucinda shifted and ki*sed his eyelids.


    She ki*sed his tears away, much like he had done to her before.


    Nathan could feel her love through her words and actions, but he still couldn’t fully let go of his anxiety.


    “If you’re really aggrieved by tonight’s incident,” he ventured, “you can beat me up and berate me.


    I’ll ept whatever punishment you give me, but please do not ignore me.


    The silent treatment will kill me.


    ”


    Lucinda’s hand instantly stopped.


    Her lips twitched, and when she spoke, there was a hint of anger in her voice.Upstodatee from Novel(D)ra/m/a.O(r)g


    “Thising from a man who has been giving me the silent treatment not too long ago! Remind me, who was it again that wanted to break off the engagement? Didn’t you say that you don’t love me anymore, and then proceeded to not speak to me for days? And after you got the injection, too, you ignored me for two whole days!”


    Nathan was silent.


    He knew that he was in the wrong.


    “Didn’t you promise not to bring up the past anymore,” he whispered in a slightly whining tone.


    Lucinda snorted.


    The warm affection she had been feeling just now was quickly reced by the bitter resentment that had been festering in thest few days.


    She loved him, of course, but she was still mad at him as well.


    “You’re the one who keeps dredging up the past, and now you tell me that I’m not allowed to do the same? I could have looked past your insistence to break up, but I can’t forgive you for avoiding me for days on end! It still makes me so mad just thinking about it!”