Billionaire's Match

Chapter 1024

“Hmph. It’s just a piece of candy. If I had been there…”

Khloe snapped back to her senses and pushed herself up from his embrace. In the darkness, she stared straight at him, her tone still bristling with indignation.

“If you had been there, what would you have done?”

“If I were there, I’d make sure none of them got to eat it. It wouldn’t be fair at all if you didn’t have any!”

“So even if you were just a kid, you’d still protect me?”

Watching her flustered outrage on his behalf, warmth swelled in his heart-sweeter than candy ever could be. He lifted her face gently in his hands and asked softly.

“Of course!” she answered without hesitation. “No matter when, as long as I’m by your side, I’ll protect you.”

“Me too.”

His voice dropped, and he leaned closer to her lips. His breath turned hot.

“The thing I hate most in life… is meeting you too late.”

too late. Parting too

up and covered his mouth. “No

smile lingered in his eyes as he pulled her

sleep? How was she getting more and

trivial things strung together one after another. Gradually, her eyelids grew

at that moment, he suddenly

She jolted awake again.

covered his mouth, murmuring an apology before rushing into the

this time, he didn’t manage to

her own eyes: his tall frame stumbling beside the toilet as

to, but because she was afraid. Afraid that if she went too close, her heart

of blood at the corner of his lips as

him. She crouched down,

pale now. Perhaps because she was there, he forced himself not to make a

be in

a glass of warm water and helped him rinse his mouth, then stayed beside him,

pain inside his body could flare up at any moment-like this vomiting spell, only one of

it would only get more frequent, and each

his face.