When The Family Reads The Fake Heiress Mind

Chapter 486 The Feeling of Being Needed

Jean wasn’t sure how long he planned to sleep.

Eventually, out of sheer boredom, she just sat there playing on her phone.

After that, it somehow became their shared secret, an unspoken rule. No one knew that Hector’s so–called therapy sessions were just him taking naps in front of her. That was it. Nothing more.

At first, Jean had genuinely hoped to help him work through his psychological issues. But after all this, she pretty much gave up. If the patient didn’t want to talk and only wanted to sleep, what was the point of trying?

That said, she did protest at some point.

If all he wanted was to nap while she sat there, she didn’t really see the purpose of continuing. She came into this trying to help, not to babysit someone who treated sleep like therapy.

And if Hector had no interest in getting better and just wanted to be unconscious in her presence, she wasn’t going to keep wasting her time.

But when she said all that, Hector didn’t argue or explain.

quietly lowered his gaze, his entire expression unreadable. The shadows in his eyes darkened until something bleak and hollow settled in his features. And then,

helps me sleep,” he

sentence coming out of his mouth was

his expression was dead

he meant

felt like she was important to him. That she wasn’t just sitting there–she was helping him. That feeling of being needed caught her off

Watching someone sleep wasn’t her idea of productive. Her time

that

back of her head, unsure

can sleep,” Hector continued, his voice low and tired, “I think I’ll

her, Jean actually saw something soft behind his

before it got even stranger. But faced with that look–like she was the only one

could feel it

He needed her.

486 The Feeling

for reasons she couldn’t quite explain,