Chapter 167

I couldn’t predict the future. But at that moment, I couldn’t remain indifferent to a man’s tears. This man had harbored feelings for me since high school. And I had already decided to give both him and myself a chance.

Perhaps I was slightly disappointed in him, but it wasn’t to the extent of me wanting to shut him out completely.

I had always been too kind–hearted.

Matthew might have faced a genuine emergency. I chose to believe the incident was just an accident.

Seeing how sincere he was, I would give him one more chance. Just this once!

He couldn’t stop talking about his regrets and fears. He went on about how hurt and guilty he felt seeing me unconscious on the hospital bed. He didn’t seem to hear me at all.

I didn’t continue to speak. I quietly listened to his ramblings with a smile in my eyes.

Suddenly, he stiffened. It was as if he had come to a realization and quickly sat up to look into my eyes.

sheer ecstasy in his red

his eyes. They said men seldom shed tears, yet he had cried for

to trust him again and to give us a

Just wait for me a bit.

his face with the hem of his shirt and bounded to the door in a few steps like a child

back and kissed my forehead without any

the ward with a spring in his step. But yesterday’s incident was too perilous. Thinking about it now made me even more fearful. I couldn’t forget

many dangerous situations. I wondered if it was

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did I always

long after Matthew

before my eyes. “Are you still feverish? Does the wound

touch my face on

too.

I missed Colin.

I was terrified. There was no one on the street. I fell three, no, four times. My legs are

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