Chapter 40\u00a0<\/p>\n
Vivian had just washed away the day and lay down in the bedroom when the knocking started again.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cVivian, the living room is cold. Can you let me come into the bedroom and sleep with you?\u201d Logan\u2019s voice carried hope for reconciliation. He wished that Vivian would relent and let him into the room.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m still sick.\u201d He refused to believe she could be so cold\u2013hearted as to ignore him when he\u00a0<\/p>\n
was ill.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The next second, he heard a cool, emotionless voice from inside the room. There wasn\u2019t the\u00a0<\/p>\n
slightest trace of gentleness, only seriousness and resolve.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMy grandmother hated the idea of unmarried couples staying together in someone else\u2019s home while she was alive. We haven\u2019t even registered our marriage yet, and we haven\u2019t held the wedding either. Are you sure you want to make her angry?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Logan fell silent for a few seconds, feeling as though the gaze behind him had intensified.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He exhaled sharply and gave up.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A trace of irritation surfaced in Logan\u2019s eyes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
His fever had just broken today, but he had yet to recover from his cold. If he were to spend\u00a0<\/p>\n
another night on the couch, his condition would turn for the worse by tomorrow.\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, he wasn\u2019t afraid of his illness getting serious. After all, it was only a cold. Besides, this could be his chance to reconcile with Vivian. Perhaps she would relent out of concern.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But the cold of the night was truly hard to endure.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And Vivian was acting too indifferently toward him. It left his heart tight and heavy with\u00a0<\/p>\n
discomfort.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Logan said, \u201cVivian, if I can\u2019t come in, can you at least give me a blanket?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAren\u2019t you here to apologize to my grandmother? How could someone who wants to repent possibly fall asleep?\u201d Her voice carried undisguised mockery.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Logan awkwardly rubbed the bridge of his nose and murmured, \u201cThe temperature in Baymoor dropped today, and my cold hasn\u2019t gotten better yet.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Vivian replied, \u201cIt was cold when my grandmother passed away, too. During that time, I kept\u00a0<\/p>\n
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vigil for her night after night, almost without sleeping.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Logan\u2019s voice dropped lower. \u201cI\u2019m sorry. It\u2019s all my fault.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Vivian did not respond again and closed her eyes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Logan stood at the door for a while, then walked over and sat down in the living room.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He tried to avoid letting his gaze fall on Eleanor\u2019s memorial portrait, yet he couldn\u2019t help but search for that line of sight.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He kept feeling as though Eleanor was staring at him with a stern, reproachful gaze\u2013as if she knew every shameful thing he had done.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Logan took a deep breath and forcefully repressed the guilt rising from within. Then, he took out his phone and went on social media to distract himself.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At a glance, he saw the contact he had pinned to the top. After hesitating for a moment, he opened the chat and typed out a line. \u201cAre you asleep, Vivi?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The phone screen lit up. Vivian picked up her phone and glanced at it. Seeing that the message was from Logan, she frowned slightly. Then, she muted notifications from him and closed her\u00a0<\/p>\n
eyes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She had an appointment tomorrow to bring Kingston to take a look at the Halcyon Group\u2019s project. She was also planning on urging Kingston to hurry up with the contract.\u00a0<\/p>\n
There were only eight days left. She needed to deal with these matters as quickly as possible.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Logan sent Vivian a few more messages, but still received no response. Dejected, he felt a splitting headache take hold.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As he raised a hand to massage his temples, the phone vibrated.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He hurriedly picked it up, only to find no reply in the chat window. Instead, a message popped up on another app from Sloane.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cLogan, I don\u2019t know why, but my stomach hurts so much. Have you already gone to bed with Vivian? I didn\u2019t want to message and disturb you, but I\u2019m really scared.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Logan sprang up from the couch and rushed to the courtyard.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After taking a few steps, he stopped and turned to look back at the house.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He hesitated for a moment before finally walking to Vivian\u2019s bedroom door and raising his\u00a0<\/p>\n
hand to knock. \u201cVivi, I have something urgent to take care of and need to step out. Tomorrow, I\u2019ll\u2014\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u201cGet out!\u201d Vivian had just fallen asleep and was jolted awake, so she felt incredibly annoyed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Logan froze for a moment. Knowing he was in the wrong, he reluctantly humbled himself.\u201d Vivian, I really do have an urgent matter to attend to. I\u2019ll come over tomorrow to be with you. Rest early.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Vivian did not answer.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Logan stood at the door with a frown, hesitating. He had a nagging feeling that if he left today, Vivian would never forgive him for the rest of his life.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cVivi\u2026\u201d He spoke softly, DR MAR\u00a0<\/p>\n
he could finish, his phone rang.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Logan pulled out his phone to see the caller ID showing Diana\u2019s name. He hurriedly answered, deliberately raising his voice.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 41\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 40\u00a0 Vivian had just washed away the day and lay down in the bedroom when the knocking started again.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i-cancel-the-engagement-and-level-way-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}