After a long while, my sobs turned into sniffles. Only then did I remove the covers from my head. I leaned against the headboard as I stared mindlessly at what was supposed to be my dinner.

Soon, Michael arrived. The moment he laid eyes on the chaos in the room, his eyebrows furrowed as he strode towards me.

“What happened here?”

 

“Nothing. I spilled my dinner.”

I answered calmly with my eyes still zoned into the food, not bothering to look at him.

 

“Your mom?”

Michael had a sharp mind. It took him no time to put the pieces together.

“Thank you, Michael.”

Even though the time I spent with Mom that day was far from pleasant, I was still immensely grateful to Michael. I knew he had done all that he did for me to be in Mom’s good books. Unfortunately, Mom’s attitude towards me would not be easily changed in the foreseeable future.

“Why are you still putting your hopes on such a horrible mother? Anna Garcia, you’re now a grown woman! You don’t have to stick around anymore.”

At the sight of my disheveled look, Michael’s expression darkened before reprimanding me coolly.

“I’m still putting my hopes on her because she is my mother,” I stated calmly without any expression.

After a few seconds of silence, I sighed. “Whatever it is, let’s stop talking about this. I’m famished. Can you buy me some food? I just want to channel all my misery to my appetite.”

Throughout the entire day, I had only had some chicken soup that Mom brought me in the morning and nothing else. My stomach had been rumbling since hours ago. Food was my only concern for the time being.

“What do you want? I’ll ask the secretary to send some over.”

Michael took out his phone and glanced calmly at me, preparing to give his secretary a call.

“Let’s eat out instead. I don’t want to stay here for a second longer. Don’t worry, it’s already dark out there. No one will recognize you.”

public. One of the main reasons, I suspect, was Michael’s fear of our relationship being out

Michael that no one would recognize him without giving him the window to

you sure that you

Michael seemed to be more concerned about

Michael to be a self-absorbed man who cared for no one except himself. It was truly

a result of my exposure to low temperatures the whole night, so it is probably just a cold. My temperature

my heart fluttered

“Let’s go, then.”

close scrutinizing, Michael agreed

agreed, I threw

had promised that I was fine, a wave of dizziness hit me the second

to each other. Breathing in his unique scent, my

is what you mean by ‘feeling much better’? I gotta admit, Anna, you’re getting better and

on the bed. A grim look was casted on his handsome features. His eyes were gleaming in

really fine. I just stood up

 

I quickly explained. I had finally managed to convince him to eat out with me. There was no way I was going to let him change his mind just because I almost

force yourself

Michael stared me down with a skeptical look. With his strong observation skills, the weak state of

directly beneath the air-conditioner last night, almost freezing to death. How could I have recovered from that

food will run out soon

to refute, I dragged him out of the room by his hand. I had voluntarily

stopped blinking, dumbfounded. As his gaze traveled to our hands, his lips curled upwards into

outside the hospital, I sucked in a deep breath. The cold breeze of the night hit my skin. Taken into account the fact that I was still having a fever, goosebumps started to crawl on my skin as

Without wasting a second, he took off his coat and draped it

layer despite knowing you still have a fever? Are you trying to freeze

his lips upon seeing my pale

at

His vicious

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