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.

spine. “Nathaniel, you wouldn’t

breath still against her ear, before earnestly whispering something. The

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

was completely dark, and yet, under the faint light reflecting off the snow outside, Cecilia could just

out… now,” she stammered, her

leaning even closer to her ear. “If you ever need something, tell me in private. Don’t go looking for other men,” he

now!” Cecilia demanded, pulling the blanket tighter

how she had once thought that the amnesiac, blind Nathaniel was at her mercy. But now, she

if he were

precautions before 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 closed her eyes, Nathaniel’s words echoed in her

small boat adrift in the vast ocean, tossed helplessly

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

of bed, a message from Calvin caught her eye: Are you free this afternoon? Want to come

without hesitation: All

late every

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