Chapter 425: Unspoken Thoughts and Uninvited Feelings

Chapter 425: Unspoken Thoughts and Uninvited Feelings

Victor said nothing.

Tessa cleared her throat awkwardly. “Um… just so you know, you shouldn’t be smoking right now.”

She offered the reminder quietly. Victor raised a brow.

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No one had ever told him that before. Not during injury recovery, not ever. Did she really not know who she was talking to?

Tessa’s stomach growled.

With no cook around, even if Victor didn’t want to eat, she’d still have to make something for herself.

But judging from last night’s conversation–and the glimpse she’d caught of the kitchen–everything he liked seemed really complicated to prepare.

“So, um, should I make you something to eat?”

Victor: “Hmm?“/

Tessa hesitated. “Well, at this hour, whatever I make probably won’t be ready until noon. So maybe… maybe we skip soup?”

Soup took too long. And right now, she just wanted something fast and easy.

Victor raised a brow. “So what are you making?”

“Pasta. Okay?”

It was quick. And she’d made it for Stella before–Stella had even said it was good.

Victor wasn’t particularly fond of pasta, but he didn’t argue.

“Come here.”

Tessa stiffened. “W–Why?”

She really didn’t want to get any closer to this terrifying man.

said nothing. Just stared at

Tessa: “…”

When under someone’s roof,

She finally shuffled over.

looked small–more like a little girl

and

jerk back. “W–What are

to be flirty? That

said calmly, “There’s blood

Tessa: “Huh?”

Blood?

face.”

you got… looking at

Her breath caught.

She still hadn’t cleaned

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cheek quickly–and sure enough, little crusty flakes came

It was dry blood.

to dig a hole

a smile at the corner of

“O–Okay.”

ran off like a rabbit

off, lips

thing around might not be such a bad

forgot the chaos of how

J…

washing up, Tessa went

pulled noodles and a few basic ingredients from the fridge and

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had a direct view of the kitchen. He watched her little figure

somewhere in his chest, a strange

quite name it—it was foreign, unfamiliar… but not

Meanwhile, in Rivermount-

Abraham stirred awake.

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