My Pretty Sweetheart (Arianna)

He looked at Nerissa with a self-deprecating smile on his face. "Aunt Nerissa, it's not that she can't leave me, but I can't leave her. I can't do without her. I've never learned how to love her, so I had been hurting her all this time. I don't only love her, I also lost the ability to love anyone else after I met her. No matter what happens in the future, I want to protect her and I want to do as much as I can for her. The past is in the past. The future is what's important, isn't it?" S~ᴇaʀᴄh the FindNʘᴠᴇl.nᴇt website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

I stood frozen on the spot as I stared at him. There was an unspeakable pain in my heart and my eyes fell on the ring on his finger. Yes, it seemed that he had never taken off that ring.

Perhaps Nerissa never expected he would say something like this. She opened her mouth, yet no words came out.

She looked up at me with a little self-deprecation, shook her head and left in a daze.

I turned around and went back to the bedroom. I never thought about what kind of existence I was to Hendrix. I knew that he loved me and that put my heart at ease, but I never thought that his feelings ran so deep.

Lying on the bed, I was completely awake. When Hendrix came in, I was still lost in thought with my eyes open.

When I saw him coming in, I tried to close my eyes. Unfortunately, he noticed it. "What's wrong? You can't sleep?"

Then, I said, "Maybe it's because I'm not used to this room." I regretted my words after I said them. Why did

beside me and drew

while feeling a little

stayed up in a daze until midnight. I felt a little cold, so I drew closer to him, looking for a source of heat. He held

heart. We never know what would happen

into the bedroom. In a daze,

looked up at me with light in his

me. With a smile, he said, "Do you want to go out with

a moment. "Is it

slightly. "Not exactly. The weather is good today. You can go out

head, agreeing to

for Hendrix's visit

go. But he thought that he could take me on a walk