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Caught off guard, Loraine froze, a blush immediately suffusing her face. She stammered, “What… why did you eat from mine?”

Marco’s expression was one of pure innocence, clearly misinterpreting the situation and assuming Loraine wanted him to sample her portion.

He blinked and earnestly offered his untouched crepe to Loraine. “Then take mine, have a bite in return?”

Loraine spluttered, a flurry of embarrassment and bewilderment seizing her. She was at a loss for how to respond.

After a brief pause, she threw Marco a faux-irritated glance and said,

“Who wants to eat your food? Let’s move.”

she held onto the crepe that Marco had taken a bite from, instead of discarding

Loraine’s reaction, Marco, initially befuddled, could not fathom what had transpired. But then, he chanced upon a young couple on the street, intimately feeding each

inadvertently shared an

Marco’s eyes as he grasped the root of Loraine’s discomfiture. His earlier gloomy demeanor, weighed down by his past, noticeably Lightened. He watched Loraine’s retreating back

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kept him in her peripheral vision, concerned about losing sight of him. Seeing him closing

Marco reached Loraine and blocked her path, a mischievous, teasing smile gracing his features. He purposefully extended

misunderstanding earlier. Since I’ve sampled your portion, it’s only

uncertainty. But confronted with his resolute demeanor, which hinted he wouldn’t yield until she

for his antics, she observed him once again replicating her bite mark

view, he painstakingly aligned his bite with her indentations

cheeks flushed immediately, and Marco, unsatisfied,