Filed to story: Healing My Disabled Husband Novel
She leaned on her knees, unable to stop laughing.
River was somewhat speechless by her laughter, but he didn’t seem annoyed at all. Instead, he patiently watched Averi’s antics until she finished laughing.
She wiped away the tears from laughing at the corners of her eyes and straightened up before turning to look at River. “Do you speak so candidly to every woman?” she asked frankly.
“I’m just being honest,” River replied calmly.
Averi shrank back slightly and gave him a knowing look instead of answering him directly.
River was almost provoked by her behavior but didn’t say anything. Instead, he grabbed Averi’s head from behind and pulled it towards his own face without warning.
Averi’s pupils dilated instantly as she looked up at River in confusion. Could this guy be…
As Averi had suspected, River pressed down on the back of her head and fiercely captured her lips in his own kiss.
Averi couldn’t help feeling that this guy seemed addicted to kissing.
She had never noticed before how passionate he was about this particular thing.
The feeling was really strange.
Of course, for Averi, the more frustrating part was that River’s eagerness to kiss her always left her unable to think clearly.
She felt helpless about it all.
When River finally let go of Averi, she licked her sore lips and couldn’t help but scold him with a glare.
“Don’t do that. You always come out of nowhere to kiss me and we’re not even in a relationship.”
River raised an eyebrow at her words and looked at Averi with a smirk on his face. “I like you, you like me. I don’t see any reason why we can’t be together.”
Averi furrowed her brows and stared at River as she asked him, “Why are you so domineering?”
River was amused by Averi’s huffing tone. After laughing, he became serious and straightened his body, as well as Averi’s, so that they were facing each other.
River said, “Alright then, I’ll give you a choice. Do you want to be with me or not?”
Averi asked, “Which kind of being together are you talking about?”
River narrowed his eyes and suddenly burst out laughing. He said, “How about we get married right now?”
This really scared Averi. No matter how she thought about it, she never expected River to be so direct.
It was one thing to be together but getting married was too impulsive.
Without waiting for Averi’s answer, River chuckled and said, “What? Are you scared?”
Averi replied, “…”
She knew that the last thing she should do at this moment was to let River provoke her. However, she couldn’t help herself and raised her chin directly saying, “Who do you think I am? What am I scared of?”
“Okay then let’s go.” River lightly pulled the corner of his mouth and didn’t give Averi a chance to back down. He had already stood up from the sofa.
He pulled Averi up and asked, “Where is your document? Do you need me to help you find it?”
Averi remained silent.
River let go of her hand and Averi turned to walk towards the bedroom. In just a minute, she came back with the needed document in hand.
She waved it in front of River and said, “I don’t need your help.”
River’s smile deepened in his eyes. He felt a little helpless but he wasn’t going to change his mind.
Since he had already expressed his feelings for Averi, getting married was only a matter of time.
He didn’t think that anything would change now that he knew he liked Averi. Since there wouldn’t be any changes, the process didn’t really matter either. They were just moving faster than others towards the same goal.
River took the document from Averi’s hand and said, “Go change into something else. We’re leaving.”
Averi was taken aback for a moment before realizing that her outfit today was too flashy if they were going to get married at city hall. It wasn’t formal enough.
Without hesitation, she turned around and headed back into the room again.
Halfway there, she stopped in her tracks and turned around to face River, asking him, “How do you know so much about this? Do you have experience?”
River even said it on purpose, with a slight raise of her eyebrows, saying, “Averi, I don’t mind doing something else first before making it legal.”
Averi was at a loss for words.
Her face instantly turned red.
Averi felt like there was something wrong with herself for thinking that she could gain some advantage by just talking.
To avoid what River had in mind from happening, Averi obediently went to change her clothes.
After coming out again, Averi said, “I’ve changed my clothes. What about you? Can’t wear the black shirt?”
River replied, “Don’t worry. I had someone send it over. It won’t delay us.”
Averi was speechless once again.
It seemed as if she was so impatient or something when in reality she wasn’t at all.
However, regardless of whether or not she understood what was going on, River had already taken her out and into the car with a clear destination – the marriage registry.
Averi couldn’t quite grasp why they were getting their marriage certificate so soon.
Beata was typing in her room when she heard some noise outside. She stood up from her computer and walked to the door, curious about what was happening.
“Chace, what are you doing here?” Beata asked as she saw Chace House coming upstairs. Chace had been with River since he was very young and was one of River’s most trusted people.
However, Chace rarely came upstairs because Beata also lived on this floor besides River.
Chace looked over at the sound of Beata’s voice and smiled at her. “Mr. Knight asked me to come up here to get something,” he said.
“What is it?” Beata asked innocently.
Chace didn’t have anything to hide from Beata and answered directly, “A permit of residence and a white shirt.”
Beata nodded without thinking much of it. With so many industries under her brother’s name, there were plenty of places where a permit of residence might be needed.
But just as she was about to go back into her room, something felt off. She furrowed her brows in confusion before turning around again and calling out for Chace who was about to enter the room.
“Chase, did my brother ask you specifically where these items are going?” Beata leaned closer towards him with a serious expression on her face.
Chase nodded his head in agreement before asking curiously, “Is there any problem? What’s wrong?”
“There is! There is a big problem!” It suddenly dawned on Beate that something wasn’t right here as she stared intently at Chase. “Did my brother tell you where these things should be delivered or not?”
“I’ll take a look.” Chace said, taking out his phone.
He had just received a call from River, who said he would send the address over in a bit. Chace hadn’t had the chance to look at it yet.
Now that he took out his phone and looked at it, Chace was stunned.
Beata saw him freeze and furrowed her brows even more.
“What’s wrong?” Beata couldn’t wait and leaned over to take Chace’s phone, reading the words on it carefully.
“Ha… cough cough… cough cough…” Beata almost choked on her own saliva.
What did she see?
The address her brother sent was for the marriage registry!
Marriage! Registry!
For a moment, Beata couldn’t understand if there was something wrong with her eyes or if there was something wrong with her brother’s brain.
She looked at Chace and asked, “Chace, what you saw is the same as what I saw, right?”
Beata started to doubt whether she wrote too much recently and had some kind of hallucination. Was it because she wrote about male and female protagonists getting their marriage certificate so passionately that now she imagined her brother being involved?
Just as Beata was trying to convince herself of this reasoning, she heard Chace say, “You didn’t read it wrong. It really is for the marriage registry.”
Chace was completely dumbfounded and couldn’t understand what was going on.
Suddenly, both Beata and Chace didn’t what to say.
The two looked at each other and finally came to an agreement: find the thing first, then figure it out.
Beata rushed into the closet and picked out what she thought was the coolest white shirt for River.
Then, without even paying attention to Chace, she shouted at him, “Chace, wait for me in the car. I’m going to change my clothes.”
After speaking, Beata rushed out of River’s room.
For such an important thing, of course she had to see it with her own eyes.
Otherwise, how could it be?
Chace agreed and took the document from the safe before heading downstairs to start the car.
Beata didn’t even bother washing her face or hair. She just threw on a T-shirt and shorts. Luckily, she still felt that the registry was a serious place with a sense of dignity. So instead of wearing flip-flops directly over there like some people might do, Beata changed into canvas shoes instead.
Of course, sticking to her principle of never leaving home with unwashed hair, Beata found a hat to cover up her not-so-greasy bangs.
In less than five minutes from start to finish, Beata dashed down stairs.
Chase couldn’t help but laugh at her antics .
Back when he used to take her school, this girl would drag so much that River would get angry before she finally left her room.
After getting in the car, Beata looked at Chace with a smile and said, “Chace, let’s go as fast as we can without breaking any laws.”