Chapter 223 The Wish for a Child.

Third Person POV

Henry’s deep violet eyes never left Aubrey’s face. This was the face that haunted him night after night, the one he could never get enough of.

The air between them grew charged, yet Aubrey still felt no real danger. After all, Henry couldn’t actually do anything to her.

Instead, she said lightly, “I’m tired. I want to sleep. If there’s nothing else, you should go back and rest too.”

Her words struck him with a sense of defeat. From her tone, from her gaze, he found no trace of affection. It wasn’t like before, when every glance Aubrey gave him had been burning, so intense it could almost sear his skin.

Back then, he hadn’t even needed to turn around to feel her staring at him with that fevered devotion. He had always glared back with harsh rejection. Yet now–now he wished more than anything that she would look at him. like that again. With love so deep it felt like he was the only man in her world.

“I can’t read your heart at all anymore…”

His low, hoarse voice carried a weight of helplessness.

for you… how much I long to have children

drifted downward, settling on her belly. “I’ve even thought about braving the Moon Goddess’s birthplace,

that, Aubrey’s smile vanished, replaced

be suicide. Don’t even think about it! And the contract with the Moon Goddess

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Wish for a

the color from his

filled the silence between them

it’s natural to crave new life–as if it could carry you forward.” But the danger was too great. She

and firm,

to me. You have to trust me–and yourself. I will cure you. You don’t need a

tight, his gaze tangled with emotion. After a moment, he leaned closer, whispering so low only

just want you to have a child. I even think… if, after our first time, I hadn’t made you take that medicine, maybe

faintly. Just the thought of a child, made of both of them,

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