Chapter 819
When it was over, I could not fall asleep for a very long time and looked at the moonlight outside the
window while feeling a pang in my heart.
Just as I was finally about to fall asleep, I heard Theo moaning painfully beside me. I quickly turned
on the bedsidemp and sat up to check on him.
His head was covered in sweat, his eyebrows were tightly furrowed together, and pain was written
all over his face.
"What''s wrong?” I was terribly anxious. "Where does it hurt?”
Theo opened his mouth slightly. "It hurts.”
"Where does it hurt?" I grabbed my phone while anxiously asking.
Theo''s breathing quickened. "Wanda, don''t. Don''t—"
I finally realized that he was having a nightmare and quickly shook his arm. "Wake up, Theo. Wake
up.”
Theo slowly opened his eyes and reacted for a few seconds before pulling me into a tight embrace.
He was so strong that it hurt me. "Can you please don''t go, Wanda? Please, I beg you, don''t go."
I pursed my lips and could roughly guess what he had dreamt about. I put my hand on his head and
comforted him softly, "I''m not leaving. I''m here."
"Don’t go!" He kept repeating these words as if he could not hear me.
When he had calmed down a little, I helped him to bed and drew out a piece of tissue at the bedside
table to wipe the sweat on his forehead. "Go back to sleep.
Don''t worry, I''ll be here."
He nodded and pulled me into his arms. He took a deep breath. "You''re my life, Wanda. You can’t
leave m e or I''ll die."
It was then I knew that I was not the only one struggling in pain. In thest three years, life was
easier to get by with Munchkin by my side, but Theo could only suffer in the dark by himself.
I felt sorry for him and hugged him like an octopus." I''ll not leave as long as you need me. I''ll never
leave."
He was not the only one who was lonely. Theo and I were like two puppets that had sunk down at
the bottom of the ocean. We needed to hold each other to survive the darkness that was engulfing
us.
He said, "Every time I woke up at midnight in the past, the room would be empty and the space
beside me would be cold, so cold it was as though you never existed. Sometimes, I would think that
you were never there in those years, that I had made you up in my head because I was too lonely.
"I didn''t even have the courage to step into the house i n Salt City. Sometimes, I''d be put in a trance
thinking that I was dreaming. There were many times I wondered if I could hold you again if I die in
the dream and then wake up."
I felt a lump in my throat and held his hand tighter." I''m sorry."
Theo let out a self-deprecating smile. "I''ve had many teachers. They all taught me how to survive in
the business field and how to negotiate with people, but none of them taught me how to love
someone. I was afraid of hurting you, so I refused to get close to you. I apologize for my
foolishness."
His words sent tears to my eyes. I sniffed and said," Theo, I don’t know how to love someone either.
I''m a very selfish person."
All these years, I probably had never truly put myself i n his shoes.
I loved him, but my way of loving him was not right.
When Theo swapped Cindy''s and my DNA report back then, the main reason was that he was
afraid he would not be able to hold onto me anymore once I became Grayson and Petra’s daughter.
If I had not been so bent on getting away from him and told him what I really thought, our child
would not have died, Cecilia would not have died, and my biological parents would not be spending
their days in remorse.
On this night, we embraced each other as each of us confessed and repented.
Theo said, "I don''t want another three years of that. It''s too long and too lonely."
Tears wet my eyes. "There won''t be another three years like that. We’ll be together for the rest of
our lives."
He hugged me tighter. "Do you love me?"
I smiled, both certain and serious. "I love you."
A chuckle came from above my head, apanied by the sentence, "I love you too. I love you very
much."
This was the first time we confessed our true feelings t o each other.
"Thank you." He suddenly thanked me.
I was stunned. "Why are you thanking me?"
Theo kissed my lips. "Thanks for still being willing to love me. Thank you for still being willing to
come back to my side."
The winter in the north was very long. Munchkin had plenty of time to admire the snow scene, so it
came as no surprise that he had caught a cold.
Keith would take Munchkin to kindergarten every day. This included a wake-up call service.
On this day, he went to wake Munchkin up, only to see his flushed face and quickened breathing.
He quickly knocked on my bedroom door.
Theo had gone to work very early in the morning. I rushed to Munchkin''s room and asked Keith to
get a doctor.
"Should we get Dr. Lynch?" He hesitated to ask.
I thought about it and nodded. "You can get him."
He was Munchkin’s father, after all. It would be more than reliable to get him to treat Munchkin.
Mason came in no time at all. He was so fast that I was in disbelief.
"Where did youe from?" I asked curiously.
It would take at least an hour to drive from the city, but he had arrived in 20 minutes. Did he fly
here?
He pursed his lips and made no reply. He sat by the bed and reached out to feel Munchkin''s
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"He''s a little hot," I said.
Mason nodded and took out a thermometer from the first aid kit to take his temperature. Then, he
looked at me and asked, "Do you have ice cubes at home?"
I nodded. "We do."
"Wrap the ice cubes in a towel to lower his temperature. Grab a couple of thick nketster and
turn off the heater in the house."
Having said that, he started rummaging through his first aid kit.
I was stunned for a moment. "It’s so cold. If we switch off the heater, will he be able to stand it when
he''s having a fever now?"
He stopped in his actions and looked up at me while narrowing his eyes. "Are you the doctor or am
I?"
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What was that attitude?
Although I was unhappy, I did not say anything else.
I went to the kitchen to grab some ice, and as he said, found a few nkets and switched off the
heater.
When the preparations were made, he looked up at m e. His gaze fell on my body and he frowned
slightly. "G o and wait in the living room. I can manage the situation here myself."
I wanted to say something, but he seemed reluctant to have me here. After noticing the thinyer of
clothes o n me, I left.
I went to the bedroom to grab a down jacket and went downstairs to wait in the living room.
About half an hourter, Mason came downstairs.
He put the first aid kit on the coffee table and said, " His fever has gone down. Make sure he stays
at home for the next two days and eats in food. Don''t give him anything that’s fried or hot."
After a pause, he added, "I left the medicine in the room. Just make sure he takes it once a day.
Even though it’s medicine, it''s more or less poisonous, so the fewer pills he takes, the better it is."