"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

bedroom, Natalie was already in

in bed and put his

Natalie's body immediately trembled.

She was not asleep.

sorrow

feel it, Natalie's fear of

that one day, Natalie would be

wanted to spoil her, but he never thought that he would hurt

endless regret. He

said, "I'm

Natalie's lips curled with

was apologising to

the pain and suffering that

apologising now, would he act

knew that each short burst of sweetness would only

each other,

was best for both of them if she were to leave

eyes were filled

am tired," Natalie said.

grip

passed, but Natalie's eyes

hour to arrive, waiting for Tobias

what felt like an eternity, Natalie finally felt

called out

There was no response.

Tobias' grip on

out of bed and put on

this coat for this

coat, one containing identification and a bank card, and another containing a

run out in the middle of the night as

more, the villa was halfway up the mountain, so she'd specially prepared a

Natalie reached out to lightly open the

voice rang

thunder strike in Natalie's mind, making

eyes.

got out of bed. "Go back to sleep. You have to

a sense of eeriness in the darkness of the unlit

light projected from the window, Natalie could see Tobias' silhouette. He was walking towards

every

come over!" Natalie suddenly

had

darkness of the night, under the dim light coming from outside the window, the dagger

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