Chapter 324 Old Habits

Late at night, after ensuring Martha was resting, Cecilia went to her room and lay down. She hadn’t been asleep for long when suddenly, she felt a hand wrap around her from behind. “Ceci,” a voice whispered.

Nathaniel had somehow entered her room. One hand held her firmly, while the other rested on her lower abdomen.

“Nathaniel, what are you doing!”

De losing his memory, Nathaniel hadn’t lost his old habits, especially his tendency to slip

into other people’s rooms uninvited–a habit he clearly hadn’t forgotten.

Nathaniel hadn’t planned on touching her, particularly considering her early pregnancy, made any such action unthinkable.

which

But as he remembered the clandestine meeting between Calvin and Cecilia, and Mason’s words, Nathaniel’s thin lips found their way to the back of her ear.

down Cecilia’s spine. “Nathaniel, you

against her ear, before earnestly whispering something.

cheeks burning like a ripe apple. “I don’t need that!” she snapped, quickly covering her mouth with her hand, worried that Martha might overhear from

reflecting off the snow outside, Cecilia could just make out Nathaniel’s

stammered, her voice trembling with fear

paused again, leaning even closer to her ear. “If you ever need something, tell me in private. Don’t go

the blanket tighter

finally left, she noticed the fading bruise on his waist, a mark she had left on him–a reminder of how she had once thought that the amnesiac, blind Nathaniel

superiority as if he were

he might return, Cecilia took extra precautions before going back to sleep, locking the door from the inside and barricading it with a cabinet. But sleep did

boat adrift in the vast ocean, tossed helplessly by the

at her phone–ten o’clock already. Thankfully, Martha had been waking up. day, giving

Calvin caught her eye: Are you free this afternoon? Want to come with me to see Eli?

without hesitation: All

late every

despite having a caregiver, Cecilia made it a point to visit him every day. She quickly changed her clothes and freshened up

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