Cyrus watched her go, looked back at the naked mattress, and smiled helplessly. He had no choice but to retrieve a fresh set of sheets and make the bed himself.
Noelle had apologized to him at least fifteen times, and bowed no less than twelve times in just a few minutes.
Cyrus thought she was a silly girl, yet rather cute, too, in her own way.
In any case, his houseguest was quite interesting.
The next morning.
A beam of sunlight passed through the French windows and fell on the foot of the massive bed inside the room.
By the time Nathan blinked his eyes awake, Lucinda was already up.
In fact, she was sitting up beside him, her back against the headboard, her attention focused on her phone.
Nathan groaned and pulled himself up.
“You’re playing with your phone first thing in the morning?”
“I’m not playing; I’m shopping for some stuff for you.”
Lucinda was giving him another present? It would be something perfectly normal and ordinary this time, right?
“What are you buying? Let me have a look.”
Lucinda saw nothing wrong with letting him peek, so she held up her phone to him.
“Just some tonics,” she explained casually.
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“Some deer antlers, stuff like that.”
Deer antlers? What?
Whatever remnants of sleep remained in Nathan’s mind quickly vanished.
He turned to Lucinda with narrowed eyes.
“Why are you buying these things? Did I fail to satisfy you last night?”
“No, no, not at all!” Lucinda shook her head in earnest.
“You’re awesome as always, but you did say that you could do at least three hundred push-ups with one hand. And then you went ahead and only did one hundred.”
It led her to wonder if she had been exhausting his energy these last few days.
Had he somehow grown weak?