Chapter 1418 With the Courage of a Moth to a Flame

Feeling her clothes being pulled, Beryl, who had never been intimate with anyone, instinctively raised her hand to stop him. "I... I'm scared..."

Above her, Marcellus stopped his actions. Under his disheveled hair, his dark eyes shimmered with an unreadable light.

After a moment, he spoke in a gravelly voice, "Scared of me?"

Beryl didn't catch the deeper meaning in his words and nodded slightly. "A bit..."

Heh.

A soft breath, barely audible, slipped from the corner of his lips. Beryl couldn't even be sure if he had smiled just now.

"Never mind." He took a deep breath and was about to turn away.

By some strange impulse, seeing his expression and hearing his tone, Beryl felt that if she pushed him away now, there might never be another chance.

the silence of this late night, in a space where there were only the two of them, she made the boldest move of her twenty years of

She grabbed Marcellus' hand.

not expecting her to take further action, Marcellus stiffened

but even without saying

to

a deep breath and loosened her grip on his hand slightly. Her long, fluttering eyelashes resembled two small brushes,

felt like it would leap out

afraid of you. I just lack

like a slow-motion replay, and he finally turned

ask, "Do you know

understand Marcellus most of the time, but tonight, he laid everything bare in front of her without any

amount of words could fill the void

and

night, with a terrible past and everything mired in a swamp of

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