She suppressed the faint smile at the corners of her mouth and gestured with her eyes toward the Lego pieces on the ground.
“Are you asking me to kneel before you?” Cedrick asked.
“No.”
Cedrick swiftly took off his gray coat and casually threw it behind him. The coat landed perfectly on the coat rack in the corner of the wall.
His pure white shirt fit snugly, outlining his waist perfectly, displaying his impeccable figure.
Without hesitation, he tucked a ruler into Gwendolyn’s hands, bent his knees, and knelt steadily on the Lego pieces.
His eyebrows and eyes narrowed in pain. However, he quickly regained his composure. Gazing up at Gwendolyn with his handsome face, he said, “It is I who should kneel before you.”
Nothing could convey his apology better than kneeling before his wife.
Gwendolyn was taken aback. She hadn’t expected him to suddenly drop to his knees and reached out to pull him up. “Why are you suddenly kneeling? Don’t your knees hurt? Get up.”
Cedrick shook his head. There was a hint of remorse in his eyes. “I’ve made a mistake.”
“What mistake?”
“I shouldn’t have lost you. I shouldn’t have deliberately smoked to provoke you,” Cedrick admitted.
Gwendolyn sighed. This incident was not his fault. Besides, the smoking matter had already been addressed back in the courtyard.
She suddenly felt a sensation around her calf as she was lost in her thoughts.
Lowering her gaze, she saw Cedrick’s arm encircling her leg. He bent his waist and gently rested his head on her leg.
“You…”
don’t move. Let me hold you for a
now carried noticeable hoarseness. Gwendolyn was stumped. She put away the ruler that
even unhappy because you spoke up for Charles. Knowing that Joe has been on the run for so many years and is
His voice trembled uncontrollably.
overwhelmed with frustration
him
to be heard before Gwendolyn, who had lost her memories. He didn’t wish to show his miserable self to Gwendolyn, afraid she might be disdained to see
been trying to hold in for the past ten days broke
sob helplessly, causing
her mouth several times but couldn’t find the right words
truth. “Cedrick, you are no saint.
your waist?” he asked tentatively, still caught up in
changed the way she addressed
smiled wryly.
from the Lego pieces. His forearm firmly held her
Gwendolyn said
Their eyes met.
hint of tenderness
you just call me? Why aren’t you calling me Mr. Jenson anymore? Have you
Gwendolyn nodded.
lost
Gwendolyn nodded again.
the diagnosis from Fairlake
major shareholder of all the
matter of a few words to have
features tighter. He cast a wary glance at her and said
gossip, and I thought it best to have them believe I
had planned to continue with the deceit, but Cedrick’s anguished manner tugged at her heartstrings, and she decided to reveal
The revelation that
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