My Heart only Beats for You

Natalie was petrified.

The Whitlock family was just too straightforward.

She couldn't believe that Cecilia wanted her to call her Mom.

They had only just met each other for the first time.

"No, Auntie!" She let out a nervous chuckle. "I prefer to call you Auntie."

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"Alright then, if that's what you prefer." Cecilia looked at her affectionately.

Then, she guided Natalie to sit on the sofa and asked how she was.

Natalie thought Cecilia would start questioning her about her background. She was her son's girlfriend, after all.

She braced herself for the questions and drafted the answers in her mind - her height, her education, her job, her family...

But surprisingly, Cecilia didn't ask a single thing

about those.

Instead, she asked Natalie if she liked Hayden, inquired about her health, and wanted to know more about how she felt. Natalie could see that Cecilia genuinely cared about her.

But her kindness was too abrupt.

Natalie was not used to it.

Out of courtesy, she answered Cecilia's question patiently as she tried to hide her awkwardness.

Cecilia didn't seem to notice Natalie's unease at all. She continued chatting passionately with no intention of stopping.

Natalie was literally a damsel in distress.

She silently thanked God when Tobias finally returned home.

Her eyes lit up, and she stared at him like her knight in shining armor.

She immediately sprang up from the sofa and leaped towards him. For the first time, she beamed her widest smile at Tobias, "You're back, Mr. Whitlock."

his gaze drifted

back." The corners of his lips quirked into a

leaned closer to him and whispered, "Mr. Whitlock, your mother

and his eyebrows raised in surprise when

to when he left. She had gained a fair amount of weight, and color had finally returned to her cheeks. She was no

greeted in a

chin to acknowledge

to disturb the mother-son reunion. Most

I'll go put Hayden to bed. It was nice talking to you, Auntie!"

Tobias

planted a kiss on her

Natalie was stunned.

just kiss her on the forehead in front of

she

moved to sit

Cecilia's eyes.

have guessed that it would turn out like

Cecilia forced a smile.

only tell herself the same thing to make herself

still doesn't remember

brow knitted into a

moment. "Even if she really

Natalie really couldn't remember anything, at least she was still with

a cause of regret. He would definitely feel like

escaped

Cecilia to worry about this, so he sneakily changed the topic. "Did Selina come

side. If Cecilia was back, she must have followed her

was nowhere to be

soon as she arrived in Agaphen City, she received that man's call. She went to look for

Tobias's frown deepened.

who Cecilia

love for ten years since they were in school, so much so she was willing to give up her luxurious life and drop out

doesn't deserve Selina," Tobias muttered with a dark

to persuade her or scold her, she just

in her eyes. "Some things are fated, and we can't

into a

darker than the midnight sky. "I'll

by love. We can't stop her, so we can only stand by as we watch her

Cecilia stopped herself.

was just like