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

Chapter 1231 Cannot Stop Crying

Maybe he’s just toying with you. He doesn’t have to take any responsibility.

Nathaniel’s words echoed around Cecilia like a haunting melody. In an instant, her eyes welled up with

Tears.

“So that’s how you’ve seen me all along,” she said, her voice bitter. “You’ve always asked me why I refused to remarry. Do you understand now? In your eyes, I’m just a woman whose feelings can be toyed with by others.”

Her voice trembled as she continued, “Nicholas, Eric, Calvin–these three men. Do you think less of me because I have a child and am still entangled with them?”

Cecilia vividly remembered the first time Nathaniel had misunderstood her relationship with Calvin, wrongly believing something had happened between themh.

But during those four to five years abroad, not once had she even held Calvin’s hand. Their relationship had remained firmly in the realm of friendship.

Nathaniel stared at Cecilia’s reddening eyes and only then realized he had spoken out of turn. Regret hit him instantly.

He stepped forward to embrace her, but Cecilia recoiled, her emotions overwhelming her. Tears began to stream down her cheeks, one after another. She didn’t know why she was crying, but the injustice of it all felt too much to bear.

life, Nathaniel was the only significant man she had been involved with. There had been no other men, despite what he may have

Nathaniel always harbored

leave it at that. Let go of me, I need some time alone,” Cecilia said, her

with her tears. Panic gripped him as he gently wiped her face, his touch tender but frantic. “Don’t cry. I didn’t mean it that

stop. Perhaps it was the pregnancy hormones amplifying her emotions, or maybe it was simply the accumulation of

go home,” she demanded, trying to pry

eat first. We can talk about going back later,” he coaxed, trying

him, his earlier words replaying in his mind. He was afraid–terrified, really–that Cecilia might slip away from

a sense of urgency, Nathaniel fetched the bowl of oatmeal again and tried

throwing up and had absolutely no desire

little,

you to go

1231 Cannot

enough. She pushed the spoon away,

forceful push caused the oatmeal to spill, splashing onto the table and the floor. Nathaniel, normally so

you,” he

exhausted both physically and emotionally, lay back

airport, staring at his