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.

flattered?' she wondered, pursing her lips

see me now?"

home?" he asked, snapping

"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 his question, but because she

reality, only to freeze. His face was only a few inches from hers, and with such

was the first

"Are you okay?"

away and

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

was explaining while looking away. He moved his hand from the edge

over to her,

and glanced at him. "What are you..." Her sentence trailed off as he suddenly pinched her checks. Her confusion

here." "Huh?"

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

He continued pinching her checks and stretching them mildly, and all she could do was manage

above a whisper. "I thought something happened when

she thought something happened to him. But for him, he feared she wasn't real and that he had

cool hum. "What... what are

rose.

dating as Zoren and Penelope, she explained in a mumble, casting her eyes. down. "But now that you know I'm Penny, isn't it a little

his

saying is, because we were friends, I don't want you to think of me as just that young girl, Penny," she said with determination,

"Should we kiss?"

""Excuse me?"

the same curious tone, leaving her

A kiss?

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