"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.

he

bedroom, Natalie was already in bed, her back

put

Natalie's body immediately trembled.

She was not asleep.

sorrow flashed

it, Natalie's fear

one day,

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

He was filled with guilt and

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 the

knew that each short burst of sweetness would

destined to torture each other, and it

them if

eyes were filled with

tired," Natalie

grip on Natalie's

passed, but Natalie's eyes

waiting for the darkest hour to

eternity, Natalie finally felt Tobias' light

Natalie called

There was no response.

Tobias' grip on her

bed and

prepared this coat for this

pockets on the coat, one containing identification and a bank card, and another containing a sharp

run out in the middle of the night as a

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

reached out to lightly open the

a man's deep voice rang out

Natalie's mind, making her stop in her

eyes.

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

eeriness in the darkness

window, Natalie could see Tobias'

with every

over!" Natalie suddenly shouted

took the dagger she had prepared from

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

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