My Pretty Sweetheart (Arianna)

Chapter 2013

Losing my love forever would be painful. If I were to be separated from Hendrix, my future would be incomplete.

However, if I continued to tolerate his ignorance towards his family's machinations, my family would have to live in constant fear and chaos for the rest of their lives. I believed that Hendrix would know better than anyone else how terrifying it is to lose a loved one.

Temporary confusions were acceptable, but we couldn't be like this forever. I was clear on my stance now, but I still wanted to wait for Hendrix.

Hearing everything I said, Hendrix, who hadn't responded, looked at me for several seconds, then smiled.

He leaned in and pecked me on my pale lips that have been chapped from all the crying and biting earlier.

Before I could react, he did it again, and again...

Hendrix held my cheeks gently. His warm kiss felt like a spring breeze brushing against my cheeks as tears welled up in my eyes.

He planted one last kiss on my forehead, before he slowed down and looked into my eyes

intimately.

given you the answer as soon as I entered the house and

was pin drop silence in the bedroom. All I could hear was

was still muddled from all the kissing, because I didn't respond

was holding me like a precious treasure. It

"Did you know that from the moment you appeared in front of me, even though it was

child as he held me tightly in his arms. "You are my

it be the Marshall family or the Roberts Group,

each other every now and then, that's what I've been looking forward to all this time. All I had to do was to forget about the first half of my

was the one who dragged you

crying but his sadness hadn't

mood swings, the more peaceful they

to his story of everything that happened in

Marshall family's search-and-rescue ship had found Hendrix in the sea among the reefs

Hendrix was fed