Filed to story: Sweetheart Do You Still Love Me
“Is it?”
She had always been a bit dense and slow when it came to matters of relationships.
Upon hearing his words, she was not surprised, but rather confused.
“When did you start liking me?”
Frank gritted his teeth in frustration.
“I’ve been treating you so well.I followed you home, stayed here,thuy bao and helped you with so many things.If I didn’t like you, could I have lost my mind?”
She looked at him and gave a straightforward answer.
“I thought you’ve always been out of your mind…”
He almost couldn’t catch his breath.How is this woman so dense?! “All right.Now that you know I like you, can you agree to go out with me?”
Frank’s gaze was filled with fervor, almost as if he could burn a hole in her heart.
“I don’t know.I haven’t considered the idea of dating before.”
Raquella sounded somewhat helpless, but she slowly expressed her thoughts.
“For me, my life has always revolved around studying, working, and taking care of my aunt.”
“I’ve never thought about being in a relationship or having any intimate involvement with the opposite sex.”
“Your sudden intrusion into my life did catch me off guard.”
“I’ve had men pursue me before, but I never took them seriously because I always felt that I wasn’t compatible with any of them.”
He looked at her and followed up with a tight response.
“I think we are very compatible.”
Raquella shook her head.
“Although those men weren’t particularly outstanding, they still had decent qualities.The fundamental reason why I didn’t want to be with them was that I felt I wasn’t worthy of them.”
Frank frowned.
“Why?”
“I don’t know.”
She rubbed her temples.
“If you truly like me, you should consider it carefully.”
Frank pressed his hands on her shoulders and asked, “What about me? What do you think about me?”
“You…are someone I’ve never considered.”
He suddenly felt a hint of frustration.
“So, you think I’m even worse than those men?”
That was the image she had of him in her heart.
Raquella was surprised.
“Why would you think that? I’ve never belittled you.”
“Not only that, but I also think you’re outstanding.I simply can’t measure up to you.”
He looked at her and realized she wasn’t saying it insincerely.
Feeling helpless, he asked, “What do you think makes you unworthy of me then?”
She felt a bit embarrassed to answer such a question.
With her head down, she recounted quietly, “I feel inadequate in all aspects.
I think you deserve someone better, so I don’t understand why you like me.”
“Raquella.”
Raquella looked up.
This seemed to be the first time he called her name with such emphasis.
“Do you really think I care about those things?”
She didn’t know how to respond and could only helplessly say, “How about we forget about it for now? Let’s not talk about this.”
“Forget it? You think that you aren’t a good match for me, so you’re treating my feelings this way, right?”
Frank forced himself to swallow his anger as he growled, “Raquella, do you know how deep my feelings are for you?”
However, Raquella did not wish to continue the conversation any longer.
Now, her mind was in turmoil and she was unable to think of any answer.
“All right, let’s save this conversation for next time.”
Frank could only let out a helpless sigh at the sight of her frantic expression.
“Okay, I won’t ask you anything before you can accept the answer.I hope that you can really think about it carefully.”
She nodded, feeling a trace of guilt inexplicably well up in her heart as she looked at his look of disappointment.
However, at this point in time, things would only continue to go further downhill the more they spoke about it.
In the end, the two ended their talk in an awkward atmosphere.
They weren’t particularly giving each other the cold shoulder, but as Frank’s enthusiasm seemed to have quelled, Raquella didn’t go out of her way to spark a conversation with him either.
Upon returning to her room, she suddenly began to feel an ache in her throat and a wave of nausea.
Hence, she planned to take a short rest on the bed, but she unexpectedly drifted off to sleep instead.
In her dreams, she felt a strange sensation, as if a ball of fire was burning in her chest.
Wishing to put out this fire, she frantically ran all over the place to look for a source of water, but her efforts were futile.
In the end, just as she was frantically tearing at her clothes, a hand suddenly grabbed hers and pulled her into an embrace.
“Don’t be scared.”
Raquella shook her head as she desperately attempted to break free, but the hand held onto her so tightly that she was unable to put up a fight.
At last, she startled awake from her dream only to see Frank sitting next to her and holding her in his arms without budging an inch.
“Frank…”
She opened her mouth, only to find that her throat was achingly sore, making it arduous to utter even a single word.
“If I’m not wrong, you’ve probably tested positive.Since you’re not feeling well, take a good rest and stop imagining things.”
He pulled out a sheet of tissue and began to wipe the cold sweat off her forehead.