"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 had

already in bed,

in bed and put his arms around her

Natalie's body immediately trembled.

She was not asleep.

hint of sorrow flashed in

could feel it, Natalie's fear

that one day, Natalie would

to spoil her, but he never thought that he would

endless regret. He

said, "I'm

lips curled with sarcasm and

was apologising to

and suffering that he'd

he act

that each short burst of sweetness would only be followed by

were destined to torture each other, and it

for both of them if she were to

eyes were

tired," Natalie said. "Go to

tightened his grip on

slowly passed, but Natalie's

the darkest hour to arrive, waiting for Tobias to

what felt like an eternity, Natalie finally felt

called out

There was no response.

carefully removed Tobias' grip on

got out of bed and put

specially prepared this coat

containing identification

it was to run out

was halfway up the mountain, so she'd specially

Natalie reached

deep voice

strike in Natalie's mind, making her stop

eyes.

Tobias got out of bed. "Go back to

a sense of eeriness in the darkness of

light projected from the window, Natalie could see Tobias'

every step that

over!" Natalie suddenly shouted

dagger she had prepared from the pocket of her

dim light coming from outside the window, the dagger

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