"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.

that he had

Natalie was already in

got in bed and put

Natalie's body immediately trembled.

She was not asleep.

sorrow flashed in

it, Natalie's fear

that one day, Natalie would be so

had always wanted to spoil her, but he never

enveloped in endless regret. He was filled with guilt and

said, "I'm

apology, Natalie's lips

was apologising to

and suffering that he'd inflicted on

was apologising now, would he act

that each short burst of sweetness would only be followed

Tobias were destined to torture each other, and it

was best for both of them if

were filled

am tired," Natalie said.

his grip on

slowly passed, but Natalie's

hour to arrive,

Natalie finally felt Tobias' light breathing coming

called out

There was no response.

carefully removed Tobias' grip on her

of bed and put on her

prepared this

identification and a

to run out in the middle of the

villa was halfway up the mountain, so she'd

was dressed, Natalie reached

man's deep voice rang out

like a thunder strike in Natalie's mind, making her

eyes.

got out of bed. "Go back to sleep.

eeriness in the darkness of the unlit

window, Natalie could

heart trembled with every

come over!" Natalie

had prepared from

the darkness of the night, under the dim light coming from outside the window, the dagger seemed to be sharper than she

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