The Promise of Happiness novel Atalie and Samuel

Chapter 989

Jerome promptly put away the smile on his face.

Mistakenly assuming that he was shy, Natalie continued teasing him smilingly, “Yvette is probably still single. If you're interested in her, I can cook up a plan to help you!”

“You can help me pursue her?” Jerome asked solemnly.

“Of course!” Natalie nodded fervently.

“I don't need to pursue her,” Jerome maintained firmly.

“I understand.” Natalie likewise stifled her smile, thinking that he might not like the feeling of someone deliberately helping him.

“You don't understand.” A gleam of sincerity glinted in Jerome's eyes.

He turned to face her and pinned his gaze on her face. “I don't find her all that stunning. In my eyes, you're a hundred times and a thousand times more beautiful than her. I don't need you to help me win her over because you're the person I like, not her.”

He thought she was undoubtedly aware of his feelings for her. Only then did he realize that she seemingly never thought of their relationship in the romantic sense. Therefore, he had no choice but to spell things out.

At the man's dark and scorching gaze, Natalie turned downright somber.

“I only regard you as a brother, Jerome.”

At that, a self-derisive smile tugged at Jerome's lips. “A brother? We're not related by blood, nor am I all that younger. Can you please stop regarding me as a brother? I've grown up. I can protect you and take responsibility for you and the kids.”

As Natalie listened to his confession of love, her heart clenched hard.

No wonder Franklin, Sophia, and the others asked me apprehensively yesterday whether I kissed him. It turned out that even the kids could tell that his attitude toward me wasn't “pure.” Yet, I foolishly thought that my interaction with him was no different from when we were young.

She belatedly realized how dense she was that she only perceived his feelings then.

Meeting his eyes, she explained, “I love him very much, so much so that it's on par with my love for the kids.

flash of shock flittered

if he really betrayed me, I'd never fall in love with anyone else in this

wasn't that she had no empathy, but she was all too aware that she could only minimize the hurt to him by being sufficiently

this earlier, Jerome.”

rejection was a fact set in

her lips pressed into a thin line, Natalie

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to his confession of love, her heert

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listened to his confession of love,

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shock flittered ocross

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