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Nathan smoked the whole way while driving with Katic.
The car was filled with smoke, which made Katie cough continuously.
Even though tears welled up in her eyes, she didn’t say a word..
Even though she was puzzled, she wondered when Nathan, who never smoked, had picked up this bad habit.
“Quack.”
The car suddenly slammed on the brakes, and due to inertia, Katie involuntarily leaned forward. “Nathan, are you crazy?”
Nathan chuckled, “I thought your mind was completely immersed in sweet nothings with your lover, unable to speak.”
“Get out of the car.”
Katie looked up and realized she had already arrived at the underground. ‘parking lot of the auction.
The painful memories from the last time I was here resurfaced once again.
Before that day, Nathan had been ignoring her for a long time. Suddenly, he knocked on her door and asked her if she wanted to go somewhere with him.
Katie agreed without even thinking about it.
Throughout the journey, she was praying for Nathan’s forgiveness.
Hundreds of times of explanations, repeated over and over again in her
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mouth, she said, “Nathan, have you forgiven me, believed me, I really didn’t mean it that time.”
Nathan didn’t speak, but he didn’t get as angry as before either. He just looked at her calmly, with a fleeting curve at the corner of his mouth.
They parked the car and a person who looked like a supervisor came in to lead the way. He looked at her face several times, and the satisfied smile made Katie feel like she was not a person, but an object.
Her heart was faintly uneasy.
“Katie, come here.”
Nathan hadn’t called her like that in a long time. Just two simple words. swept away the unease in her heart, and she let down all her defenses and walked over.
Again, he signed his own name, seemingly under the influence of a bewitched voice.
When she regained consciousness and woke up again, she found herself in a golden cage, being completely treated as an object and observed by
others.
Her mind was full of what Nathan had said to her before signing, “Don’t you want me to forgive you? As long as you sign, I won’t be mad at you.
anymore.”
“I have never lied to you before.”
Later, Katie repeatedly asked him why he lied to himself, why.
Nathan pinched her chin, his eyes filled with disappointment and resentment. “Have you never lied to me?”
Whether it was because Nathan pinched her too hard or she was too
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scared, Katic couldn’t remember when she had ever lied to Nathan.
But everything was no longer important, there was no trust between them.
anymore.
She thought she would be grateful to the doctor of traditional medicine. for the rest of her life. It was he who saved her life, otherwise, she might have really sought death.
The car door was opened, it was the same security guard as last time, but his eyes were more naked and unbridled.
Katie’s lower abdomen was cramping, she couldn’t care less about regulating her own emotions, she silently comforted the little one’s
emotions.
She told it that she just needed to sign a document, and they would be able to leave soon. A gentle and handsome uncle would soon take them to a beautiful new country.
Nathan handed over a thick, even thicker than last time, agreement and placed it in front of Katie.
Katie steadied her mind and carefully began to read after flipping it open.
After a while, Nathan began to grow impatient. “I can’t fool you anymore. Just sign it already.”
Katie didn’t look up, “I have to see it for myself to feel at ease.”
Her tone was flat, devoid of any personal emotions, but even so, Nathan was still angry and felt a lump in his chest. The last time she
unconditionally trusted him to sign above, Nathan cursed her as foolish and cursed her for loving him so much.
But this time, when she carefully and seriously started, Nathan was still irritable.
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He walked out and asked someone for a cigar. After taking a deep puff, memories of the first night with Emelia came to his mind. He realized that only when he was entangled with Emelia in bed, could the inexplicable restlessness in his heart be somewhat soothed.
He loosened his tie and told the people inside that he had something to attend to and needed to leave first. He asked them to wait for Katie to finish signing and then figure out a way home on her own.
After saying that, he turned around and walked away, took out his phone, – and dialed Emelia’s number.
