His short hair was soft like a baby’s. It felt nice to the touch.
A faint smile tugged at Lucinda’s lips.
She couldn’t stop patting his head.
In Nathaniel’s eyes, however, the experience wasn’t as pleasant.
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On the contrary, he found it a little strange. Why did it feel as though she was petting him like a dog?
Initially, he never wanted to let Lucinda go, but now that she was petting him like this, he decided to pull away from the hug.
He chuckled.
“Well, you granted my request. Now we’re even.”
Lucinda quietly withdrew her hand from his head.
After thinking for a while, she took out a delicate gift box from her pocket and handed it to him.
“A gift,” she explained briefly.
Confused, Nathaniel raised his head to look at her. Had she asked him to make a request just now to test him?
Perhaps she just wanted to see if his request would be reasonable or excessive.
He took the gift box from Lucinda and unwrapped it with his pale, trembling fingers.
Inside lay a syringe, with content similar to the specific medicine he had been injected with.
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Nathaniel frowned.
He tore his eyes away from the syringe to look at her with a complicated expression.
Lucinda explained, “The drug I injected you with before is called 023.
The one you’re holding now is an antidote. It won’t hurt. Your body will soon recover once the antidote takes effect.”
“Wh-why? Why would you give me this?”
Biting his lower lip, Nathaniel tried hard to suppress the suffocating feeling in his heart.
Taking a deep breath, he asked, “Didn’t we agree to terminate the employment agreement upon completion of the execution period? Do you still… Want to make a clean break… With me?”
Nathaniel’s heart was heavy with a dull ache that seemed to Linger.
He was desperate to win her heart back, but he didn’t know how.