Forbidden Passion

Chapter 57 Are You Not Sick?

Vanessa put down her phone, closed the curtains, and walked towards Theodore with a smiling face, "Theodore, come sit here." Theodore sat down on the pink sofa, his long legs feeling a bit restless, "Didn't you say you weren't feeling well?"

"If I hadn't said that, would you have come?" Vanessa half-playfully, half-complainingly glanced at him, then knelt on the carpet next to the coffee table. Theodore pursed his lips slightly but remained silent. Vanessa reached out her hand towards him, with a flirtatious and lively tone, "Can I borrow your lighter?"

Theodore took out his lighter and handed it to her. Vanessa leaned over to take it, and her fingers lightly brushed against his fingertips. Her arm felt a little numb, as if an electric current had passed through it. She quickly withdrew her hand, lighting the candles on the cake while saying, "Theodore, do you remember what today is?"

Theodore looked at the cake on the coffee table, somewhat absent-mindedly, "Your birthday?"

a decade, and

day and hastily prepared a gift. Vanessa had had many fights with him over

felt a little sad and disappointed in her heart, but she had gone through so much trouble

not my birthday, it's our 12th anniversary of knowing each other. You should remember that," Vanessa

you don't think about them. But seeing how much Vanessa cared, he said, "I remember."

Vanessa knelt on the carpet, resting her chin on her hands, looking up

the government compound. You poked your head out from upstairs and looked at me. You asked if

and I still remember your smile, so happy and surprised, as if my happiness was the most important thing to you. My arrival is something you've been longing for," Theodore lowered his

for a long time, but he stayed silent. She kneeled and sat beside him. She pressed her face against the back