Chapter 281 The Proposal

Third Person POV

18 Pearls

Aubrey was indeed hungry. She picked up her fork and began eating the breakfast Charles had prepared. The eggs were cooked to perfection, the bacon fragrant without being greasy. Before she knew it, she was cating a little too quickly.

A fleck of golden yolk clung to the corner of her lips.

Charles, now in a clean white T–shirt, sat across from her. His gaze, calm and gentle at first, caught on that

ente, he leaned forward and brushed his thumb softly across her

out–of–place crumb. Almost without 3.1

mouth.

“You got something there,” he murmured, the gesture so natural it felt rehearsed a thousand times.

lifted her eyes, she collided with his- steady, intent,

heavy with silence, broken only by the

well,” Ella’s voice teased from within, dragging out the

quickly reached for her glass, taking a sip to


Her voice was softer than

drew back his hand. His fingers curled slightly, still haunted by the memory of her warm, delicate skin. He

said evenly, though his throat bobbed as

friends now,

smiled. When he did, it was a quiet, soothing thing that invited

him for a long moment before finally

Charles cooked all three meals, and Aubrey, her belly

steady. In the evening, his orange long- haired cat emerged from hiding, its fluffy coat almost the same color as her hair. The plump creature sniffed curiously at Aubrey before

soundly for

she rose at dawn, he

fat orange cat/mewed insistently, rubbing against her leg. To keep it

scooped it up, covered its mouth,

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