Filed to story: Healing My Disabled Husband Novel
Averi said, “Beata told me that at her current age, in puppy love, it is twilight love, and it is not considered puppy love at all.”
River was really about to be rendered speechless by Beata’s nonsense.
He squeezed Averi’s hand and said, “Then you think they’re all right?”
“I don’t know about this. I can’t tell if there will be anything in the future, but looking at it now, there should be nothing.” Averi said.
River naturally trusted Averi, and knew very well that even if Yael was given much courage, he might not dare to do anything under his nose.
Averi said, “We should not think about it. They haven’t do nothing at all, and we are talking nonsense.
Talking and talking, and it really turned out to be the real.”
River nodded in agreement to Averi’s words. Without discussing Beata and Yael’s stuff any further,
River reached out and pulled Averi into his embrace.
“Forgive me, okay?” he said.
For a moment, Averi was confused and didn’t know what she should forgive him for. She looked at
River as he continued speaking.
“I don’t not want to get married or have children, let alone have children with you. It’s just that I’ve been taking care of Beata since she was little, and she’s like my own daughter. I lost interest in kids a long time ago, and you know my personality. It isn’t one that likes children very much either. I’m not going to force anything about having a child at any specific time. If it happens naturally, then I’ll accept it and love the child just as much as you do. But the person I love most will always be you.”
As River spoke these words for such an extended period of time, Averi felt her heart fill with bitterness.
She knew what kind of person River was like; he wasn’t someone who talked this much normally.
Shaking her head slightly, she said, “I understand now that maybe it was just me being too sensitive or overthinking things too much.”
“I haven’t had a family for so long,” she continued after pausing briefly to collect her thoughts on the matter before continuing again, “I never thought about meeting someone else or forming another family until now when we’re together. Maybe because I have been missing these things for a long time, I will take it for granted that only having one child, or even two or three or four children, can become a complete family, but I don’t force it. And I also care about you.”
River could feel his heart breaking for Averi; he knew everything that had happened before they met each other, but still couldn’t help but feel guilty because of his previous statements which made her upset.
He held onto Averi tightly while kissing her ear repeatedly and saying, “I know now how wrong I was.
Please forgive me. Baby, don’t be sad anymore okay?”
Averi hugged River tightly around the waist, feeling relieved and finally knowing how deeply loved by him she really was- understanding all along there were no real problems between them after all this time spent worrying over nothing important at all!
Averi said, “Okay, the two of us should stop apologizing to each other like this. There was nothing wrong in the first place, so why did it turn into it now?”
River drew a little distance from Averi, looked down at her upon hearing this, and said, “Thank you, baby, for not being angry.”
Averi glanced at River, and said, “If you do this again, I will really get angry.”
“Okay, okay, not angry.” River bent his lips, his gaze was always on Averi’s face, and it was gradually deepening.
Averi noticed the change in River’s gaze, and suddenly became cowardly.
This look was more enthusiastic than usual.
Averi knew River too well and understood what every look in his eyes meant.
Even though she thought about it herself, she still hesitated.
Averi said, “Let’s eat first. Beata and I bought crabs. They won’t taste good after a long time.”
River knew that Averi was escaping, and he was very patient today. Since Averi wanted to escape, he pampered her.
Nodding his head, River said, “It is true that we should eat first.”
Averi gave River a strange look, and now she panicked even more.
The result of River being so easy-going was that it will be harder in the future than it was now.
Averi was suddenly in a dilemma. She really didn’t know whether she should change her strategy or not.
However, before she could figure out a result, River had already given her a look.
That look accurately conveyed two words, It’s late!
Beata walked out of River’s company with bags in hand, feeling extremely frustrated. “Stupid brother, what kind of brother is he? He’s so focused on his wife and doesn’t care about his sister at all.” She really wanted to eat some crabs, but she could only complain a little bit since River had paid her.
As she walked to the parking lot with her bags, Beata saw Yael and immediately went over to him.
“Yael, let’s go eat.”
Yael was surprised that Beata calmed down so quickly and noticed that she still had her bags. But what caught his attention more was when Beata called him by name. It reminded him of when she used to call him “Yael,” which made him feel uncomfortable.
He couldn’t ignore this feeling but didn’t want to complicate things either. He knew it would be difficult if he delved too deeply into it.
Beata noticed Yael wasn’t speaking and said again, “Yael, let’s go eat. I’m starving.”
There was no room for negotiation this time around as they got into the car together.
Beata put all her bags in the back seat without getting in herself while Yael opened the door for her.
She then said, “The back seat is full; I’ll sit in the front.”
Yael didn’t mind where Beata sat but didn’t know that she had ulterior motives behind it – wanting to test whether or not there was something between them beyond their act at the dessert shop.
If there really was something more than just acting involved, that would be a big problem for Beata.
But if it turned out that she had been overthinking things…
In Beata’s mind, there seemed to be two little people fighting. However, she could already clearly feel who her own balance was leaning towards, and what she wanted to hear more was what kind of opinion.
It was precisely because of this that Beata wanted to find out even more what was going on.
Yael opened the passenger door and let Beata sit in.
Beata put on her seat belt herself. Although, when she wrote her own novels, she always wrote about the male protagonist wearing a seat belt for the female protagonist, and then adjusted the atmosphere to an invincible and ambiguous state.
However, Beata still had to admit one thing: she was cowardly and she didn’t dare at all.
Yael got into the driver’s seat, and before starting the car, he asked, “Miss, what do you want to eat?”
Beata barely choked on her own saliva.
She turned to look at Yael and said, “You call me like that, which make me look like an old man.”
Upon hearing this, Yael looked at Beata. His gaze was calm, but it made Beata feel a little uneasy for some reason.
She felt like slapping herself. Why was she so afraid that Yael would know what she was thinking?
Beata said, “Don’t be so formal with me. Even my brother doesn’t act like that.”
Yael remained silent. He knew that he and River were closer than just colleagues; they were brothers who looked out for each other. He didn’t want to create any unnecessary distance between them.
However, Beata and the rest of them didn’t interact much. They mostly stayed in the shadows to protect her and rarely had casual conversations with her.
Seeing Yael’s silence, Beata frowned and said, “Treat me the way you treat my brother. I’m not harder to deal with than him.”
Yael nodded in agreement.
Beata continued, “You can call me by my name from now on if you want.”
It seemed like every man needed a woman by their side because since Averi came back into River’s life, he became more adorable than ever before.
Beata liked how cute and endearing her name sounded as well as how close it made it seem. Without hesitation, she let Yael call her that too without realizing what effect it might have on him.
Little did she know that, for Yael, hearing those words only made him more curious about why she wanted him to address her differently from before, especially when she added, “if you want.”
The strange feeling inside of him grew stronger but he forced himself not to think about it too much because knowing what it meant could be something beyond his capacity right now.
But ignoring this feeling wasn’t an option either, because once something took root within him, he can’t help but pay attention or else risk letting it grow wilder.
That was exactly how Yael felt at the moment ??unable to ignore this new sensation growing inside of him.
He remained quiet waiting for Beata’s decision on where they should eat.
All Beate could think about was eating the Harlequin Cuisine’s crab dish again!
She was chased away by River, and couldn’t have the chance to taste the crabs at the Harlequin
Cuisine. Right now, she wanted to eat the crabs even more.
In fact, the crabs may not be so delicious, but Beata was driven away by the River.
After thinking for a long time, Beata said, “Let’s go back to the Harlequin Cuisine. I want to eat hairy crabs.”
Yael smiled inexplicably, because he already guessed why Beata wanted to go there.
He thought Beata was so cute again. She was just a little girl, and what she wanted was so clean and simple.
Without hesitation, Yael started the car.
Beata turned her head to look at him, obviously seeing the smile on his face.
Frowning, Beata said, “What are you laughing at? Do you think I’m very childish?”
“No,” Yael said. Usually, when he communicated with people, he was really too lazy to talk, so he won’t continue when he talked about it, but today he added a very sentence, which was abnormal, “It’s pretty cute.”
Beata snorted softly, pretending to be arrogant. She then said, “You can talk sweet.”
However, she can’t think carefully about these words, because the more she thought about it, the more she will backfire herself.
Especially Beata was so good at imagining. She can imagine a big scene with just one look, and now she was called cute by Yael.
Under what circumstances would a man call a girl cute?
It was impossible to think about it at all in a detailed way.
