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."

gaze

his lips quirked into a faint

whispered, "Mr.

eyebrows raised in surprise when he saw

he left. She had gained a fair amount of weight, and color had finally returned to her cheeks.

greeted in a

chin to

mother-son reunion. Most importantly, she felt intimidated

to bed. It was nice talking to you, Auntie!"

Tobias

planted a kiss on

Natalie was stunned.

Tobias just kiss her on the forehead in front of

pounding, she quickly

to sit

across Cecilia's eyes.

that it would turn out like that. It doesn't

Cecilia forced a smile.

the same thing to

doesn't remember anything, does

knitted into a

perhaps. Even if "His breath hitched for a moment. "Even if she really can't

couldn't remember anything, at

a cause of regret. He would

escaped

didn't want Cecilia to worry about this, so he sneakily changed the topic. "Did

was back, she must have followed her here

she was nowhere to be

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

Tobias's frown deepened.

who Cecilia was talking

in love for ten years since they were in school, so much so she was willing

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

to persuade her or scold her, she

"Some things are fated, and

to fall into a star-

darker than

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

Cecilia stopped herself.

was just like

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