When Her "Death" Couldn't Break Him (Cecilia and Nathaniel)

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.

hot breath sent a shiver down Cecilia’s spine. “Nathaniel, you wouldn’t dare!” she protested, trying to

still against her ear, before earnestly whispering something. The words made Cecilia’s eyes

her face flushed a deep red, her cheeks burning like a ripe apple. “I don’t need that!” she snapped, quickly covering her mouth

room was completely dark, and yet, under the faint light reflecting off the snow outside, Cecilia could just make out Nathaniel’s broad, muscular upper body. She realized with

her

paused again, leaning even closer to her ear. “If you ever need something, tell me in

here, now!” Cecilia demanded, pulling the blanket tighter around herself and curling up

of how she had once thought that the amnesiac, blind Nathaniel was

air of superiority as if he were doing others a favor just by being present. Now, without his memories, he was utterly

going back to sleep, locking the door from the inside and barricading it with a cabinet. But sleep did not come easily; every time she

adrift in the vast ocean,

phone–ten o’clock already. Thankfully, Martha had been waking up.

bed, a message from Calvin caught her eye: Are you free this afternoon? Want to come with me to see Eli?

Cecilia replied without hesitation: All right,

late every

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