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,

before earnestly whispering something.

her 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 the next

yet, under the faint light reflecting off the snow outside, Cecilia could just make out Nathaniel’s broad, muscular

now,” she stammered, her voice trembling with fear and

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

demanded, pulling the blanket tighter around herself and

thought that the amnesiac, blind Nathaniel was at her mercy. But now, she realized that dealing with Nathaniel after his memory loss was proving to be far more challenging than

superiority as if he were doing others a favor just by being present. Now,

locking the door from the inside and barricading it with a cabinet. But sleep did not come easily; every

dreamed of herself as a small boat adrift in the vast ocean, tossed helplessly by the waves. When she awoke,

already. Thankfully, Martha had been waking up. day, giving her some

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

replied without hesitation:

late every

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