The Promise of Happiness novel Atalie and Samuel

Chapter 454 Her Soft Spot

Samuel stayed beside Natalie after carrying her over to the bed.

He brushed his hands lightly across her cheeks, trailing the tear stains on her face. “You did it on purpose, didn’t you? You sat on the ground drinking on a cold night because you wanted to get sick deliberately, right?”

As Samuel pointed out, she drank over her limits because the pain of losing her child was too much for her to bear.

She buried her pain deep down in her heart, but her well-concealed grief was let loose that day.

At the end of the day, she was not as tough as she made herself up to be.

All this while, she had been putting up a strong front just to conceal and protect the fragility in her

Now that she was drunk, she could not really hear what Samuel said. She held on to her clothes, mumbling to him softly like a cat. “I-I’m sorry…”

She thought Samuel was angry with her so she apologized to him.

“I’m not trying to control you. I’m just afraid you might catch a cold,” Samuel said before pausing to look at her. “I’ll ask Gavin to carpet the floor if you like drinking on the ground.”

Despite what he said, Natalie still apologized to him over and over again.

do you keep saying

stayed strong,” she muttered, clenching his shirt with her small hands. “I promise I will get myself together tomorrow. Just let me do what I

can I

clouded her almond-shaped eyes. “It’s too late to

lost. There was nothing else he could do for her except for giving

embrace until her strength left her. As time passed,

off tenderly as memories of what

was bright, wise, and talented, but she also had had her fair share of

with, and he did not want to force her to open up to

like what he was doing at

and planted a

his chest

held each other tightly

solace they each needed from

and morning came. Natalie woke up in Samuel’s sturdy embrace and reached out to

anyone told you that you’re not supposed to tease a man early in the morning?” A hoarse voice

“I’m not teasing you…”

drew back her hand, but it was already too late. Samuel had already