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

Chapter 1471 Scaled The Balcony

Uncharacteristically, Nicholas didn't stop at the slightest hint but pressed on.

For some reason, this grated on

Cecilia more than usual.

"Don't..."

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She raised her hand to stop Nicholas.

"Nicholas, I'm really not in the mood right now."

Nicholas paused, his Adam's apple bobbing.

This time, he didn't act like the gentleman he usually was. Instead, he reached out to unbutton her clothes. "Cecilia, I promise you, once we're back, we'll get married, okay?" he proposed. Cecilia reached out to stop him.

"I-I'm not ready to get married yet."

She wanted to avoid Nicholas, but somehow, she just couldn't.

Nicholas noticed her body was slightly trembling.

please, don't do this.

was in that moment that Cecilia felt a certain resistance to physical contact with

her obvious affection for Nicholas in

articulate it, she just knew she didn't

resentment. Why, even after Cecilia lost her memory

He pushed on.

knew she simply couldn't resist him, and so,

they had been sleeping in separate rooms. It was only

was certain she must have cared

aware that she had long since lost her

would be truly

brought Nicholas a considerable amount of relief. However, when he tried to take things a step further, his hand met with a chilling coldness. He lifted his head only to see that Cecilia had her eyes tightly shut, tears slowly trickling down from the corners of

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Scaled

that moment,

a blanket over to

she opened her eyes, she saw that Nicholas had already gotten up and

face full of guilt, curled up on the sofa, at a loss for

moment, outside the villa, Nathaniel's mood was equally

powerless to intervene. He didn't even dare to lay a finger on Nicholas, especially not in front of Cecilia. Mason couldn't help but complain, "This Nicholas is really heartless, isn't he? What on earth did

he'd definitely feel the

and don't let them escape," Nathaniel said, his