Chapter 417

“Just rest if you’re tired,” he said as he lay on his side, pulling her close by the waist.

Brielle turned to nestle into his embrace, hearing his lingering question. “Sure, you don’t want. that cartoon–themed down jacket?”

So that was still on his mind.

In Max’s eyes, Brielle was unlike any other woman. She might’ve appeared dull, but her thoughts were more intricate than anyone’s, never demanding anything from him, nor voicing her own needs. Yet, that very fact left Max on edge, always fearing he might inadvertently. cross some unseen boundary and accumulate enough disappointments in her to walk away in silence.

Brielle was like the shattered bits of colored glass in a kaleidoscope, tiny and fragmented, hidden deep within, and impossible to fully see.

Max was willing to fulfill all her wishes if only she would ask, but she never did, so he remained clueless about her desires.

“No, let’s just sleep,” she replied.

Max’s arm, draped around her waist, tightened, and he gave a reassuring pat. “Okay, let’s sleep.”

affection; it was just best to

completely contradicted his seemingly reserved exterior. It was out of concern for the baby that

where the sound of running water soon. filled the room. He had already taken a shower that night; he probably wanted to

her phone by the bedside

trusted that Max wasn’t the type to keep looking for something better while he had something good, so he must have made his stance. clear to Alivia. But Alivia knew how

convalescence, away from the troubles of Beaconsfield. So if Brielle ever showed displeasure at

persisted, especially intrusive in the

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other women, and picked up the phone at such a moment to rile up Alivia, but while effective, that tactic also

his voice

tone was calm, betraying nothing.

call at this hour likely meant something about his mother, “Can you take it for me? Ask

bit embarrassed when he mentioned a

doing him any good in this

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