"Natalie, are you okay?" Hayden asked her, his eyes wide.

Natalie looked at Hayden's face in a daze.

There was no light in her eyes, only emptiness.

After a while, she came back to her senses.

She touched Hayden's face and said in a low voice, "I'm fine. Hayden, you have to eat more so you can grow taller."

Hayden smiled at that. "I will. I'm going to grow tall, even taller than Daddy."

There was a sense of despair in Natalie's eyes.

Simon's words from earlier in the day almost moved her.

But what happened after that made her determined.

She had to leave Tobias, and once she did, that would be the end of it.

This meant that she would have to do so even if she had leave Hayden.

Tobias was not well.

Everything would end only if she were to leave.

After dinner, Natalie excused herself and went to the bedroom, saying that she was tired.

Just as Tobias was about to enter her room, Cecilia stopped him.

She looked at Tobias with some concern. "Tobias, Natalie seems to be strange today. Is she in a bad mood?"

Tobias looked tired. "I will comfort her," he replied.

"Tobias, you always have a sense of propriety when doing things. I don't want you to lose your sense of propriety with Natalie." Tobias's breath hitched for a moment, and a flash of irony appeared in his eyes.

He had a sense of propriety.

He had always felt that this was the case.

But now he knew that he was wrong.

When faced with Natalie, he could not be rational. He would always be reduced to a mess.

knew that he had hurt her

already in bed, her back

got in bed and put his

Natalie's body immediately trembled.

She was not asleep.

sorrow flashed in

it, Natalie's fear of

one day, Natalie would be so

had always wanted to spoil her, but he never thought that he

enveloped in endless regret. He

said, "I'm

his apology, Natalie's lips curled with sarcasm and

apologising to

and suffering that he'd

he was apologising now, would he act

of

destined to torture each other,

them if she

were filled with

am tired," Natalie said. "Go

his grip

Natalie's eyes remained

the darkest hour to arrive, waiting for Tobias

eternity, Natalie finally felt Tobias' light breathing coming from

called

There was no response.

carefully removed Tobias' grip on her

got out of bed

prepared this coat

containing identification and

out in the middle

up the mountain, so she'd specially

reached out

a man's deep voice rang out

in Natalie's mind, making

eyes.

"Go back to

of eeriness in the darkness

the light projected from the window, Natalie could see Tobias' silhouette.

trembled with every

over!" Natalie suddenly

had prepared from the pocket of

dim light coming from outside the window, the dagger seemed to be sharper

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