Billionaire's Match

Chapter 1023

Khloe’s sudden movement jolted Nick awake. His voice was hoarse as he asked, “You okay?”

The moment he spoke, his strong arms had already drawn her into his embrace.

“I don’t know. I just feel uneasy. I think I had a nightmare…”

“Having nightmares more often lately?” he asked, frowning with concern as he reached up to feel her forehead. It was cold, covered in a fine layer of sweat.

She shook her head and tightened her arms around him.

Feeling his steady heartbeat and breathing in his familiar scent, her restless emotions quickly began to settle.

“Maybe it’s just pregnancy hormones. Let me comfort you two. Want to hear a story?”

He sat up, adjusted his posture, and pulled her comfortably into his arms, gently patting her back.

“What kind of story?”

“A fairy tale?”

and smiled faintly. “You can tell fairy tales

Prince,” he said softly. “Want to

head. “I want

“My story?”

you were like as a child, or everything before you met me…

quite dull. Only after I met you did it feel like there was a

happy little moment-anything boring, anything

it, he naturally obliged. After thinking for a moment, he began telling her a few childhood memories that had

was about

kind of candy he desperately wanted. It was beautiful, expensive, and every child around him wanted it. The children in the foster family he stayed with all had it one day- except

he wanted it. That night, he found one on the kitchen floor. He couldn’t resist. He picked it up and

she asked,

was missing. They made a fuss, and

you admitted it, would

the thief. But I was terrified-not of punishment, but of being called a