Chapter 209


    Chapter 209


    Rosalie waspletely unable to utter any words of rejection. When she came back to her senses,


    she and Jonathan were already lying on the bed.


    Rosalie sighed and thought, “Fine, let’s sleep together, then. After all, it’s not like we have never


    done this before.”


    However, now that she was lying on the bed, she no longer felt sleepy since he was lying beside


    her.


    So, Rosalie had to find a topic for conversation. “Why do you still call me ‘Rosie’?


    “Don’t you like me calling you that?” he asked.


    She hesitated for a moment. “It’s not that. I just feel… Well, I just wondered if it would be different


    now that we’re a couple.” However, she had more or less gotten used to it by now. After all, he had


    been calling her that since the beginning


    “What if I call you by your actual name in front of others and only special thing between us,” he


    suggested.


    “You… seem to really like calling me ‘Rosie,’ huh?” she said.


    “Yeah,” he admitted. “I’ve never called another person in such an inti


    She suddenly felt embarrassed.


    you ‘Rosie’ when we’re together? That way, it’ll be a


    “When I call you ‘Rosie,’ it feels special. It’s as if there’s a special, unbreakable connection between


    us.”


    A look of confusion shed across her eyes, and she didn’t understand what “connection” he was


    talking about. However, he didn’t seem to have any intention to exin further. He merely said to


    her, “Okay, go to sleep.”


    She mumbled something in response and closed her eyes, but she made no move to turn off the


    light by the bedside.


    He nced at the light by the bedside, and aplicated look surfaced in his eyes.


    When they were living in the rental home before this, she used to also sleep with the lights on at


    first. The reason was that turning off the light scared her and reminded her of some bad things.


    Of course, he knew that the ‘bad things” she spoke of should be referring to some of her


    experiences in prison.


    But then, sometimeter, she seemed able to sleep with the lights off.


    At that time, she said, “I’m not so scared anymore because you are with me, Jon.”


    But now, she had gone back to the habit of sleeping with the lights on again. “Is it because my


    identity was exposed, and she’s now scared again? Should I have to wait until she’s able to sleep


    with the lights off to take it to mean that she’s fully epted me into her heart again?” he wondered.


    Although she was now dating him and said that she liked him, he was not sure how much weight he


    actually held in her


    heart.


    “I’m probably not as important to her as that good friend of hers, Lillian,” he thought.


    As he thought of this, a trace of jealousy surged in his heart.


    “Rosie, when will I be the most important person to you?” he uttered in his gentle voice that


    sounded not louder than a whisper, floating lightly in the room. At the same time, his eyes gazed


    quietly at her face under the illumination of the light. Every time she called her ‘Rosie,’ he felt close


    to her as if they were family and nothing could break them apart.


    To him, calling her that was akin to giving himself an extra sense of security. He was afraid that one


    day, if he would not even be able to call her that, then there would indeed be no special rtionship


    between them.


    It did not matter whether he saw her as a lover or a family member. He wanted to be someone she


    could never abandon.


    He had tasted the feeling of being abandoned before. Back then, he was abandoned by his


    biological mother. And this time, he would never let Rosalie abandon him.


    “Never!” he vowed internally.


    That night, Rosalie thought that with Jonathan lying next to her, she would not be able to fall asleep.


    However, as soon as she closed her eyes, she fell sound asleep and slept better than ever.


    It was as though having him by her side gave her a sense of reassurance instead.


    When Rosalie woke up the next day, she saw Jonathan wearing a white shirt and walking toward


    her while buttoning his cuffs. “You’re awake,” he said.


    “Uh-huh.” She blushed slightly. At this moment, she had yet to wash her face or brush her teeth,


    and her hair was a mess as


    well.


    “Did you sleep wellst night? I slept very wellst night,” he said as he bent down and ced his


    hands on the edge of the


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    bed, looking at her with his dark eyes.


    Their gazes were almost level, Rosalie was suddenly at a loss.


    She leaned back subconsciously and wanted to widen the distance between them. However, his


    hand pressed against her spine and exerted a slight force, immediately narrowing the distance


    between them instead.


    “Did you not sleep well, Rosie?” he asked with his eyebrows raised.


    “I-I slept fine,” she stammered.


    “That’s good!” With that, he kissed her cheek naturally. “Later, after washing up, just go downstairs


    for breakfast.”


    “Okay,” she said, blushing.


    After entering the bathroom and washing up, Rosalie went downstairs and saw Jonathan sitting at


    the dining table. However, he had not started eating and was apparently waiting for her.


    The Youngblood residence served a wide variety of food for breakfast.


    “What do you want to eat?” Jonathan asked.


    “Some oatmeal will do,” Rosalie replied. With that, the housekeeper served a bowl of oatmeal to


    Rosalie, apanied by some appetizing dried fruits toppings as well as some other snacks.


    As Rosalie ate, she inadvertently looked up and found Jonathan looking at her.


    “What’s wrong?” she asked in puzzlement.


    “Nothing. I just think you look cute when eating,” he answered, raising his finger and stretching


    across the table to wipe the corner of her lips.


    He picked up the piece of dried fruit that was stuck on her lips with his finger. Then, Rosalie


    watched as he stuck out his tongue and gently licked off the piece of dried fruit on his fingertip.


    “That’s…. just sheer seduction!” she thought.


    Rosalie blushed all of a sudden, realizing that she seemed to be blushing more and more often


    these days. She never knew that a man would look so seductive when he did that.


    “It’s very sweet.” He smiled faintly at her.


    She hurriedly lowered her head and continued to eat the oatmeal. She dared not look at him again


    for fear that she might actually get a nosebleedter if she saw him again.


    After finally finishing breakfast, Rosalie saw Jonathan get up and take a tie from the housekeeper


    beside him. Then, he walked to Rosalie and handed the tie to her.


    “Please tie it for me,” he said.


    She was stunned, but he had already stuffed the tie into her hand.


    Rosalie held the tie in her hand and suddenly had aplicated feeling. She used to tie Zachary’s


    tie in the past. At that time, Zachary even joked that he would be tied to her for the rest of his life.


    But how could people’s feelings be tied up so easily?


    In the end, the entire experience was merely a self-deception.


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