My Heart only Beats for You

Selina was in fact experiencing a nightmare.

She had dreamt that Natalie had lost her child.

The child was born in a pool of Natalie's blood, but it wasn't breathing.

Selina let out a piercing scream, "Ah!"

Her eyes shot wide open, her pupils dilated, as if she had just seen a ghost.

Matthew rushed forward to hold her hands and console her, "Selina, I'm right here."

His palms were warm.

Her gaze gradually moved to his face.

Selina hurriedly cried out, as if she had just suffered a great shock, "Where's Natalie? Where's her child?"

"It's all fine. Natalie is alright. She just gave birth to a baby boy." Matthew had never left her side ever since she fainted. It was Cecilia who'd instructed the nurse to tell him this news. He added, "He's a very healthy boy."

Selina felt something in her mind slowly loosen upon hearing this information.

She patted her chest and echoed his words, "A boy. It's a boy. A healthy boy."

She spontaneously let out a laugh, "Thank god! Natalie is doing alright, and so is the child!" Sᴇaʀᴄh thᴇ (F)indNƟvᴇl.ɴet website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

She laughed so much that tears almost fell from her eyes.

If other people were to see her like this, they may have found her hysterical. Yet only Matthew knew that Selina's intense response was because she had been under far too much stress. His heart felt as if it was being tightly squeezed.

This was all because of him!

If he hadn't given her the cold shoulder after the day's event, and instead genuinely communicated with her about it, maybe things would not have ended up like this.

He was being so cruel to her because he didn't trust her!

Matthew couldn't even begin to imagine what would have happened if he hadn't gone looking for Selina at the end.

He wasn't sure if Natalie would be able to keep her child, and he couldn't bear the thought of what would have happened to Selina.

Those invisible hands tightened their grip around his heart.

When he saw Selina in that state, on the edge of a mental breakdown, he felt as if he himself was about to break down too.

succumb to insanity,

he leaned down towards her, putting

then gently kissed away the tears on

breath caught in her throat when

were warm, moist and tender, seeming to calm her with every

the tears stopped trailing down

that, Matthew

staring right at her as he

pools of his eyes, Selina slowly

now started to focus on what had happened

quickened at the realization

panicky state that she couldn't properly

her chest, "Don't fret too

but he hadn't anticipated the sudden softness he would feel underneath

was patting

didn't comment

rushed up to her cheeks, making her

hastily retracted his hand. Now was not the time to be touchy with each

them, Selina spoke up, "Please get me

"Okay."

around to get it, Selina decided to prop herself up into a sitting position. Matthew

wish to lie

want to.

him and asked, "Tell me, were you suddenly acting so weirdly because you happened to have misunderstood something?" There was apparent guilt in his eyes as he said,

your fault. It's a misunderstanding. It's all just one

ridiculous tale on

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started, "Natalie thought that I was feeling lonely, so she bought those things online and then hid them in

crashed in Matthew's heart

thought that those items in Selina's satchel were all due

her hands

were brimming

misunderstood you," he admitted, in a soft

was a hint of

blame him. "No, it wasn't your mistake anyways. If anyone else were to discover those items, they would have believed that they were mine as well."

"What?"

decided to come clean about the phone

not give much details as he recalled this story to her. Some aspects of it were

that the woman speaking on the phone was not