"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

the bedroom, Natalie was already in bed, her back

got in bed and put his

Natalie's body immediately trembled.

She was not asleep.

sorrow flashed in

feel it, Natalie's fear of

had never expected that one day, Natalie would

but he never thought that he would

regret. He

said,

lips curled

apologising

suffering that

would he act the same way next

burst of sweetness

destined to torture each other,

of them if she

eyes were filled with

tired," Natalie said. "Go to

his grip on

passed, but Natalie's eyes remained

the darkest hour to arrive, waiting

felt like an eternity, Natalie finally felt Tobias' light breathing

Natalie called

There was no response.

carefully removed Tobias' grip on her

bed and put

had specially prepared this coat for this

were two big pockets on the coat, one containing identification and a

was to run out in

the villa was halfway up the mountain,

Natalie reached out to

a man's deep voice

thunder strike in Natalie's mind, making her stop in her tracks and

eyes.

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

a sense of eeriness in the

could see

with every step that he

over!" Natalie suddenly shouted

dagger she had prepared from the

light coming from outside

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