376 A kiss?

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Zoren nodded in understanding, recalling everything up until the moment he fainted. "Right... that's what happened."

What a disappointment. They should've just eloped.

"I stayed over to make sure you're okay, she grinned, finishing the last bite of her plate. "It was just fatigue. So, from now on, you need to start walking and things like that."

"Okay" He nodded without hesitation. "I also need to increase my stamina."

"Yes." She smiled but noticed the slight deviousness in his expression. "What?"

He shrugged. "Nothing"

"I think you're smiling about something very... evil," she said, narrowing her eyes suspiciously. "What is it?"

"It's nothing," he repeated, meeting her gaze. "I'm just happy to wake up and see you as soon as I

open my eyes."

She pursed her lips and raised her chin. "I'm not... flustered."

"I'm not trying to make you," he chuckled softly as he took a bite.

Watching him chuckle and eat, Penny's lips tightened further. Her cheeks flushed red as she observed how manly and attractive his chuckle sounded. The way his jaw moved as he chewed and how he occasionally glanced at her mesmerized her. Even his arms looked firm and because he was pale, she could see his veins around his toned arms.

'Is he filming a commercial?' she wondered, touching her neck. Why does he eat so perfectly? He should be sickly. Since when did sick people look like this?"

Honestly, there were no tricks involved. He was simply eating casually, but seeing him up close was... flattering.

lips and noticing

see me now?"

we get home?" he asked, snapping her out of

"Huh?"

not because

a few inches from hers, and with such nrovimitu she held her breath. 370 A

the first thing

"Are you okay?"

away

searched for us, eventually finding us just in time. So, that's how things

while looking away. He

over to her, and stood

are you..." Her sentence trailed off as he suddenly pinched her checks. Her confusion deepened as he kept stretching her checks.. "Hehe," he chuckled soothingly, his long eyelashes lowering as his eyelids

here." "Huh?"

when I went back to the bedroom and you weren't there," he

of her heart. He continued

Her voice was barely above a whisper. "I thought something happened when I woke

knew their reasons were different. For her, she thought something happened to him. But for

called, earning his cool hum. "What... what are

brows rose. "What

mumble, casting her eyes. down. "But now that you know I'm Penny, isn't it a little

tilted his

I don't want you to think of me as just that young girl, Penny," she said with determination, looking

"Should we kiss?"

""Excuse me?"

he repeated in the same curious tone, leaving

A kiss?

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