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

see me now?"

asked, snapping her out of her

"Huh?"

the car? Penny was speechless, not because of his question, but because she realized they could've

face was only a few inches

haven't brushed my teeth,' was the

"Are you okay?"

looked away and

searched for us, eventually finding us just in time. So,

she was explaining while looking away. He moved

to her, and

Her sentence trailed off as he suddenly pinched her checks. Her confusion deepened as he kept stretching her checks.. "Hehe,"

here." "Huh?"

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

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

"I thought something happened when I woke up and you weren't there

But for him, he feared she wasn't real and that he had

she called, earning his cool hum.

rose. "What are

a mumble, casting

his head,

you to think of me as just that young girl, Penny," she said with determination, looking him in the eye. "Otherwise, let's just be friends.

"Should we kiss?"

""Excuse me?"

in the same curious tone, leaving her

A kiss?

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