Sebastian walked into the house and found Natalie stretched out on the sofa, her eyes fixed on her laptop screen.

She had cucumber slices plastered to her face, and one of her hands was holding a large tumbler with a straw peeking out of its rim.

“You’re back? Have you eaten yet?”

She had heard him arrive, yet she just couldn’t bear to miss a second of the TV series she was watching.

Sebastian found her endearing.

“I already had dinner with a friend,” he said softly.

Noticing that her long, slender legs were bare, he quietly fetched the gray blanket from the sofa and draped it over them before plopping down next to her.

“How did your job interview go?” Natalie perked up.

She closed her laptop, then grabbed the cucumber pieces from her face and popped them into her mouth.

“You won’t believe what I’m about to say,” she said seriously.

But Sebastian already knew everything.

Chuckling under his breath, he leaned back and listened intently as Natalie recounted the day’s events.

“Maybe the company just values your talents,” Sebastian said lightly when she was done.

“I saw your resume yesterday, and even I think that you have excellent skills.”

Natalie had been looking forward to his shocked face, so she was caught off-guard by his reaction.

Sebastian didn’t seem the slightest bit surprised.

“Maybe,” she murmured.

In the end, Natalie brushed it off, thinking that the gravity of the situation might be beyond his understanding.

She opened her laptop again, meaning to carry on with her series.

But then she paused at the last minute, and looked back at Sebastian.

He was reading a magazine beside her, looking all relaxed and unbothered.

color, and his jeans were worn-out, but

would have even thought they were from vintage designer brands and

her curiosity getting

is

about him, apart from his name, was that he had this small house, a deceased mother, and the Klein family that had abandoned him

to it,

he always went out early in the morning and came

tired, too, which could mean that he was toiling

was reading and picked up a different one

of a part-time worker.I do odd jobs here

just occurred to him.He

you think you’ll grow to resent

course not,” she replied without a

about these things; she just happened to ask out of mild

awfully poor and she’s okay with it?’ Sebastian was taken aback by her

His eyes gradually softened.

would work hard in order to earn more in the

we’re nothing more than a couple in name.I didn’t actually

grip tightened on the

a while, his voice low and

at the sudden

a contractual marriage in the first place, and she had just said that she wouldn’t take his

was he

the interview on the date the Larson Group had assigned

end of the month, she received

had two separate buildings

department was on the seventeenth

a talented team of designers who

graduated from well-reputed

believed the Larson Group would be the ideal place to start

convenience store near the

is on

her shoulder from

“Oh, thank you.”

around, took the money from the man, and put it into her

The voice

and met

eyes widened

“Chris?”

“What a coincidence!”

brown eyes that

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