Chapter 2
When I woke up again, I was in Adrian’s arms.
My right hand was wrapped tightly around his waist.
His chest rose and fell in a steady rhythm. After a brief moment of dazed confusion, annoyance flooded me. I had gotten so used to sleeping while hugging him that I must have reached for him unconsciously in my sleep.
If Adrian woke up and saw this, he would definitely be unhappy.
I carefully, slowly tried to pull my arm back, just as I was about to slip away without him noticing.
Then suddenly, my wrist was seized.
I looked up instinctively and met Adrian’s deep gaze.
He seemed to have just woken up too. His voice was slightly hoarse.
“What are you doing?”
Panicked, I jerked my hand back, planted both palms against his chest, and shoved him away. “I-It’s late. We should go to work.”
Adrian said nothing. He only stared at me expressionlessly.
Even without meeting his eyes, I could still feel the pressure rolling off him.
The male lead is definitely in a bad mood because the side character hugged him again in her sleep.
Seriously, who likes being held while sleeping? It’s suffocating.
Exactly. They’re adults already. Can the side character have some sense of boundaries? Forget the male lead—even I couldn’t stand someone this clingy.
I lowered my eyes, my lashes trembling. The comments made me feel humiliated.
Just when I did not know what to do, Adrian’s deep, magnetic voice sounded above my head. His tone gave nothing away.
“Do you want to make up for yesterday’s goodnight kiss now?”
Every time Adrian went on business trips, if he missed a morning kiss or a goodnight kiss, I would always pester him into making up for it.
Sometimes I even felt like a loan shark.
If Adrian missed one kiss, I would make him pay me back ten.
The first time I said that, he had almost laughed in disbelief.
“Nora Bennett, don’t you think you’re being a little too much?”
I had only blinked innocently, held his face in both hands, and kissed him over and over, completely satisfied.
Maybe there had been too many moments like that. Adrian had gradually gotten used to it and stopped showing obvious resistance.
But when I thought of the slight dodging motion from last night, I realized that deep down, he had probably never wanted any of it.
So I quickly waved my hands and said, “No need.”
Then, after speaking, I lowered my head again and added quietly, with no confidence at all, “From now on, morning kisses and goodnight kisses aren’t necessary either.”
Adrian stared at me.
His gaze darkened and darkened again.
After a long moment, he said lightly, almost like he was sulking, “Suit yourself.”
I let out a quiet breath of relief.
At the same time, my heart felt even more miserable.
He really did see all those things as a burden.