And The Daddy Is… The Infertile Guy?!

Chapter 3

The air was tense and icy.

Gwendolyn clutched her rapidly beating heart and shifted uneasily before asking tentatively, “Are you awake?“–

Howard lay with his eyes open but was otherwise motionless and silent.

Gwendolyn tentatively reached out to cover his eyes with her hand, feeling a slight tickle in her palm.

Slowly. Howard closed his eyes.

She sat on the edge of the bed, breaking out in a cold sweat. With a guilty conscience, she meticulously cleaned the lipstick marks on Howard’s face and then covered him up with the duvet as if hiding evidence.

Still, he didn’t wake.

This reassured Gwendolyn that it must just be an involuntary reaction of a comatose patient.

The sound she thought she’d heard must have been her imagination.

Sitting bored by his side, she eventually dozed off as the night deepened.

In the middle of the night, she shivered into a ball, her dreams taking her back to a similarly

frigid night years ago. Turning in her sleep, she instinctively embraced the

her, missing the moment when Howard opened his eyes once again.

with

the noise,

warm body beside.

“Mrs. Chadwick, could you please.

him

“Of course.”

Howard had been in a coma

can compare to his wife.”

a vibrant wedding gown, Gwendolyn pursed her lips in resignation and took the towel from Marina. She wrung it out and began gently cleaning Howard’s handsome face. His eyes remained tightly shut, his lashes

red. Under Marina’s vigilant supervision, she

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inch the towel touched, her fingers

need to apply body lotion to keep his skin moisturized. A full–body massage

to prevent muscle atrophy.”

cut comers. She consoled herself by pretending Howard was just like any patient she had treated

became more meticulous and

in approval.

fingers with the towel His hands were pale. slender, and

a strong pulse beneath her fingertips and voiced her

it?” Marina

With a knowing look, Marina said. “You and Mr. Howard are legally married. Don’t be shy.”