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

immediately reached up and covered

in his eyes as he

be coaxing her to sleep? How

daily life-small, trivial things strung together one after another. Gradually, her eyelids

moment, he suddenly

She jolted awake again.

mouth, murmuring an apology before

this time, he didn’t manage to stop her

it with her own eyes: his tall frame stumbling beside the

didn’t want to, but because she was afraid. Afraid that if she went too close, her heart would break so badly she would

blood at the corner of his lips as he wiped them

grab a towel and go to him. She crouched down, wrapped an arm around half

was frighteningly pale now. Perhaps because she was there, he forced himself not to make a sound-but his heavy, ragged breathing betrayed

be in

of warm water and helped him rinse his mouth, then

ease the symptoms, the tumor had already begun to spread. The pain inside his body could flare up at any moment-like this vomiting spell, only one of the

it clearly: it would only get more frequent, and

finally returned to his face. Only then did she help