376 A kiss?

[PRESENT TIME] 1

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 him raise an

see me now?"

we get home?" he asked, snapping her

"Huh?"

the story when I fainted, he reminded her. "I don't remember the bodyguards. following us. If they did, they would've hidden us in the car? Penny was speechless, not because of

face was only a few inches from hers, and with such nrovimitu she held

my teeth,' was the first

"Are you okay?"

away

got home because they got worried and searched for us, eventually finding us just in time. So, that's how

smiling at how she was explaining while looking away. He moved his hand from the edge of the

over to her, and stood beside

him. "What are you..." Her sentence trailed off as he suddenly pinched her checks. Her confusion deepened as he kept stretching her

here." "Huh?"

when I went back to the bedroom and you weren't there," he confessed, still pinching her cheeks. "I'm glad

by the pounding of her heart. He continued pinching her checks and stretching them mildly, and all she could do was manage a

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

happened to him. But for him, he

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

His brows rose. "What

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

his

me as just that young girl, Penny," she

"Should we kiss?"

""Excuse me?"

kiss?" he repeated in the same curious tone,

A kiss?

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