Tobias felt rather happy at this.

"Okay," he replied in a low voice.

After arriving at the apartment, James said that he was tired and went to bed.

Natalie and Tobias were alone in the small living room.

There was a hint of awkwardness between them.

At first, they couldn't really sense the awkwardness, probably because they were in a rush to search for James.

But now that James had been found, Natalie was not in such a hurry. All of a sudden, she felt rather awkward.

Natalie hurried into the kitchen and said, "I'll get you something to eat."

She opened the refrigerator and found that there was no food at all.

Natalie subconsciously pulled on her hair. "We only have some bread left. Do you mind just having some bread and butter?" Tobias stepped forward and naturally took the bread and butter from her. "Let me do it. I'm pretty good at preparing this." Natalie's breathing hitched.

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As they ate, Natalie kept her head down and didn't dare to look at Tobias.

Her heart felt like it was stretched tight, and she felt oddly nervous.

Halfway through the meal, Natalie noticed there were two poached eggs in her bowl.

There were only two eggs left in the refrigerator, and Tobias had given both of them to her.

She felt as though her heartstrings were being tugged on.

She took a bite of the poached egg.

It was delicious. Tobias had cooked it so that the yolk was still runny.

After eating, Natalie's stomach and heart both felt warm.

Tobias stood up.

"Natalie, I'm heading off first," he said.

He hadn't forgotten about distancing himself from her.

"Oh." There was a hint of disappointment in Natalie's eyes.

Disappointment that she did not notice at all.

to the door, Natalie

turned back and

were shining

felt

even sure why

was stunned for a

his eyebrows relaxed, and he

only a single syllable, it was full of

minute." Natalie

wardrobe and there was a paper bag in

necktie in

had bought it for

gotten the chance to give it to

happened, yet Natalie had not thrown away the

when she

deep breath and brought the bag out with her. As she walked up to Tobias, she didn't dare to raise her head. She

while, he opened the paper

Tobias' gaze suddenly

out to conceal her nervousness. "I prepared this for you for your birthday, but something came up and I didn't

felt a wave of

suddenly had

impulse to hug

out his hand, but it

flashed across his mind

image of Natalie stabbing herself with

Tobias suppressed the impulse.

at Natalie with his deep eyes, which were like a bottomless pool. "This is the best birthday

Tobias left, Natalie sat

she gave Tobias the tie,

did not end up doing

was bitterness in her

if it was because Tobias had a new

was the case, there had to be a certain distance between

twisted her fingers

good thing. They should have kept their distance

reason for

up and forced herself to do some chores to calm

focus was constantly elsewhere, and he was

thinking about excuses

tried, he could not

him

too far-fetched, he

the same with

of Tobias

her and driven in the middle of the

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