Nathan pressed his lips together and said nothing.


    He ducked his head under the covers, unable to refute her.


    Now that Lucinda had some time to think about it, she became even more furious.


    He had been illtely, so she hadn’t had the chance to punish him properly, even though he had crossed the line so many times.


    Well, his condition was all good now.


    What better time to get even with him?


    Besides, if she didn’t teach him a lesson tonight, she doubted that she would be able to sleep soundly.


    Lucinda sat up, turned themp on, and looked down at him.


    “You just said that you would ept any punishment, right?”


    Nathan stared at her wide-eyed, too afraid to speak.


    Five minutester.


    Peace and quiet was restored to the room.


    The tall and handsome man was seated at the table in his fluffy, gray pajamas.


    A deskmp was lit beside him, as well as a phone disying a QR code.


    Nathan was painstakingly copying it on paper using a ball point pen.


    On his head sat an uncapped bottle of water.


    It was filled to the brim, and Nathan’s task was to copy the image of the QR code to a tee without spilling a single drop from the bottle.


    Lucinda leaned back against the headboard and watched him work for a while.


    In the end, she didn’t have the heart to beat him up.


    And if she made him kneel on the washboard, she knew that she would only worry that he might hurt himself.


    And so, she decided on something that would be taxing to his mental strength instead of his physical one.


    “Make sure you do it properly,” Lucinda said with a small yawn.


    “I want to be able to scan the paperter.


    And don’t you spill the water, or you’ll have to start over!”


    She gazed at his handsome profile, the perfect cut of his jawline, his furrowed brows… Nathan was deeply focused on his task.


    Lucinda watched him for a few minutes and eventually dozed off.


    Nathan nced at her and sighed to himself when he realized that she had fallen asleep.Material ? N?velDrama.Org.


    Lucinda had no idea how long she had been sleeping, but she woke up when she felt a draft against her body.


    Nathan was creeping back on to the bed.


    She trembled from the chill, as a pair of strong arms wrapped around her waist.


    Not that it helped in the slightest, because Nathan’s body was ice-cold, too.