Chapter 684:

“She prepared dinner before she left. I’ve eaten already.”

“Really?” Eric remained puzzled, watching her closely.

“Then what has you so preoccupied right now?”

Her attire, complete with an apron, signaled her current task in the kitchen.

“I’ve prepared something special for you.” Hadley’s smile was warm as she spoke.

“For me?”

“Yes, just about ready,” Hadley replied, turning off the heat and removing the pot’s lid.

Curious, Eric leaned in to see a single pear, still in its skin, steaming inside the pot.

“Have you been coughing lately?” she inquired.

“I read that steamed pears help soothe the throat,” Hadley explained as she donned oven mitts to carefully extract the bowl from the pot.

it,” she said, setting the bowl aside

she noticed Eric’s

asked, a

“You don’t like pears?”

just…” Eric paused, and then stepped forward to wrap

really shouldn’t have gone to all this trouble

guard by his

no trouble at all, quite

the complexity of the task but the

𝒓𝑒𝗮𝗹 𝓬𝓸𝓹𝓎

gently

feelings for me?” he

aware of her past with Denver, wondering if

the slightest liking for me?”

stood watching Hadley intently, a quiet hopefulness glimmering

fidgeted nervously in his hold, skirting around his

It’ll get too cold if you keep waiting. Let me get

Was Hadley avoiding him?

Eric noticed immediately, clearly sensing the unease

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