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.

entered the

bedroom. All

because I didn't respond for a moment

hands softly wrapped around my cheeks. He was holding me like a

from the moment you appeared in front of me, even though it was a dream, I was more than willing to sacrifice

he held me tightly in his arms. "You are my world. Without you, everything else is

it be the Marshall family or the Roberts Group, I'd give up everything just for you

now and then, that's what I've been looking forward to all this time. All I had to do was to forget about

one who dragged you

but his sadness hadn't dissipated

the more peaceful they were, the more hurt they

back. I listened to his story of everything that happened in those six years. So many things

had found Hendrix in the sea among the reefs

up, Hendrix was