The Promise Of Happiness

Chapter 49 The First Meeting After Five Years

With that, Natalie pulled her hand away from Samuel.

“There’s nothing to worry about,” she said as she took the bandage and pressed it onto her wound. “I’m still equipped with medical knowledge despite being a coroner. I know the state of my injury very well.”

Samuel narrowed his eyes as he could sense that Natalie was trying to draw a line between them.

As soon as he approached her, she would distance herself from him.

His concern for her irritated her.

Just how much does this woman dislike me?

If it were not for the presence of Franklin and Sophia, he would like to ask Natalie what was going on in her mind.

The two children did not understand what was happening between the adults. They misinterpreted it as Samuel hurting Natalie while cleaning her wound earlier.

Thus, they proceeded to surrounded Natalie.

“Are you okay, Natalie?” Franklin asked, shooting a resentful look toward Samuel. “He’s a thirty-year-old man, so he acts too presumptuous at times. Don’t let it bother you.”

Sophia could not say anything. However, her eyes were visibly red. She looked like a vulnerable and pitiful bunny.

shook off the mixed emotions she had because of

and Sophia. I’m

the change in Natalie’s attitude toward the

be as gentle as a lamb when she was with the children. Yet, she

The bleeding finally stopped.

applied some antibiotic cream to her

a feminine voice was heard from

at

Mr. Samuel is having his breakfast in the dining room

finally got a half-day off, so I rushed here from the

like to have it with Mr.

“Yes. Thank you.”

very well. It was basically ingrained into her

the past five years, whenever she had a nightmare about the fire, she would hear every word that Yara had

Yara only

hated her to the

Natalie felt the

her first time seeing Yara after escaping from the

her lip so hard that it started to

were