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

Chapter 2057

Chapter 2057

Catching her reaction, Zachary leaned in until the warmth of his breath stirred a lock of her hair.

"Really?" he murmured, the single word carrying both teasing mischief and quiet

reassurance.

His brow arched with playful concern. "Then why is your face so red?"

Startled, Vivian sprang to her feet and turned her back before the darkness could betray the bloom spreading over her skin.

"It's probably too warm in here," she insisted, voice a notch too quick. "The heat's cranked up I'll lower it."

She padded over to the thermostat, fingers fumbling with the dial.

Zachary trailed after her, gentle concern dusting his tone. "Easy now-take it slow, there's no rush."

For reasons she could not name, Vivian's heart drummed hard and erratic against her ribs.

"Mm, I'm not in a hurry," she shot back, obstinacy trying-and failing to mask her fluster.

Zachary saw straight through the pretense, responding with nothing more than a quiet, knowing smile.

set the temperature lower, turned, and declared, "All

now, but the fragile truce involved separate beds placed

bed, shrugged off her jacket, and


press further. He settled onto

sleep refused to come. Vivian's restless turning scraped

voice drifted across the shadowed

him to be awake as well.

say the middle months are

that, Vivian released a muted sigh. "Then what am

not come easily to him. He simply resolved to help her in every

another assent and, almost without noticing, let conversation bloom between them beneath the faint glow of the

Vivian asked, her tone casual but her

his elbows on

that she's in a pretty rough spot. She' sharing a ward with

stillness. The calm, almost indifferent way Zachary spoke

conclusively-that his heart hoolnet


not name,

growing softer, sentences fading like embers. Before either of them realized, Vivian's eyelids fluttered shut

to the empty room, waiting for her reply. When silence answered back, he turned and discovered her breathing slow and deep,

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