Chapter 67

Grace breathed a sigh of relief. “That’s great. You’ve finally

woken up.”

Woken up? When had he fallen asleep?

One moment he’d been in Grace’s arms. Soaking up her strength and scent. The next, he must’ve drifted off to sleep and the memories seized him.

Wait, no. That wasn’t entirely right.

They’d chatted more after dinner. Then each taken time to wash up and change for bed.

He’d lay down on the cot and counted her breaths until she fell asleep.

Jason rubbed his eyes, the events of the evening coming back to him in short order.

He’d not had a nightmare like this in a long time.

In his dream, he had knelt down in front of the woman and begged her… Was it because he had talked about that woman tonight that he had had such a dream?

Jason raked a hand through his hair. He exhaled a long breath and lowered his head only to find that the button of his pajamas

been unbuttoned, revealing his chest. “My clothes are…”

so much. I was afraid that something was wrong with your body… So, uh, I

her face slowly grew redder.

you, I… I didn’t even have the time to look before you woke up, so actually, I didn’t see anything,” she hurriedly explained, but the more she

her cheeks glowed.

doesn’t matter even if you see. You can

hard, and it

does it h-hurt anymore?” It took

this sentence.

lowered his head

keep her gaze above his neck, but she accidentally caught a glimpse of his chest, and then suddenly

“Hey-you are hurt!’

chest. There was a scar right above his heart. Although the scar was already faint, Grace could still tell that

he said in an indifferent

While he had been sleeping, he had been crying out in pain,

bad was he hurt back then? Grace felt as if

did you get hurt like this? When did it happen?” she murmured.

had touched his wounds. She was the only one… It was as if all the blood in his body was pumping into the area near his heart. Beneath her touch,

been a long time. It’s no longer painful,” he

notice their current positions seemed to be a

up and button up

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