After finishing their spaghetti, Stuart hadn't left the house. He sat on the couch, eyes closed, appearing mentally drained.

Morwenna felt uncomfortably dirty when still covered in dirt and sweat from a fever.

Yet, she hesitated to take a cold shower.

It wasn't the illness she feared but the inconvenience it might cause others.

Tentatively, Morwenna approached Stuart and whispered, "Stuart, can you please... show me how to get the hot water running?"

Stuart wasn't asleep, but he reclined on the couch with his eyes shut, clearly not in the mood to interact.

Morwenna couldn't continue.

Usually bright and cheerful, she felt awkward and constrained, alone with a man for the first time in many years.

Ignored by Stuart, she quietly retreated to her room.

the bathroom, Morwenna called Zoe for help while she

cold water and blushed with embarrassment. She felt

Morwenna waited for Zoe.

Stuart strode

in the bathroom,

the irritability of insomnia. He had come to see why Morwenna seemed calmer after planting flowers the previous night, only to find a bathtub filled with cold water. His gaze turned icy. Sarcastically, Stuart sneered, "Oh, playing the sick and pitiful card in front of me by taking

being wrongly accused was something

wrong!" she protested, puffing up her face. "I just don't know how to get the

could finish, Stuart turned on the cold shower, drenching Morwenna from head to toe.

as ever, Stuart scoffed, "You like cold showers, huh?

seeped into her clothes, uncomfortably hugging her

was like a

one to take

to snatch the

was too tall, and

to tumble into the bathtub, which was half-filled with

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