Lenny and Scarlett

Earlier, when the servant came and told Lenny about Rosaline, Scarlet wasn't asleep. Lenny had told her that he would leave after she fell asleep. To not make things difficult for him, she pretended to be

asleep.

Lenny couldn't help feeling moved by her thoughtfulness.

He knew very little about his ex-wife. She had a petite body that made her look weak, but it seemed to contain endless power. She was tenacious, reasonable, and, at times, selfless to a fault.

Although he hadn't spent much time with her, he felt very comfortable whenever he was around her.

However, in his heart, there was only one woman, and it was Rosaline. He and Rosaline were brought together by that fateful night.

That night, he took her hungrily, passionately, and almost violently. Her petite body suffered from his fierce thrusts and movements. She was begging and crying and appeared to be in great pain, but still, she surrendered.

At that moment, the remaining slivers of his sanity told him to be responsible for her and not fail her.

Even though he realized that he didn't like Rosaline as much as he thought, it didn't matter. She was pregnant with his child, and only a terrible man would walk away from his own family.

Lenny had promised himself that he would be a good husband and father and that other women would mean nothing to him.

Thinking of this, he suddenly felt irritable. The more he reminded himself about that, the more upset he became. He felt uncomfortable, as if there was a huge stone pressing on his chest, making it difficult for him to breathe.

He frowned, took a deep breath, and drank a cup of coffee in the middle of the night to refresh himself.

He stopped himself from thinking too much. He buried himself in his work and numbed his nerves with business concerns. When he finished, it was already one o'clock in the morning.

He felt exhausted after working for so long.

When he walked out of the study, he found that the lights downstairs were on and that Scarlet's door was ajar.

Did she go downstairs?

Narrowing his eyes and knitting his brows, Lenny went downstairs without a second thought.

He found Scarlet in the kitchen. She had put on an apron and was standing over a small, steaming pot of noodles on the stove.

Scarlet didn't eat much during dinner, so she ended up awake and hungry in the middle of the night.

She got out of bed to get something to eat. She didn't want to disturb the servants. After all, they were all tired from working all day. S~ᴇaʀᴄh the ꜰindNʘvel.ɴet website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

She wanted to make herself some noodles with eggs and tomatoes. She carefully moved around the kitchen. When she was about to slice a tomato with a knife, she cut her finger by accident, and blood instantly oozed out.

"Ouch!"

She gasped and winced in pain.

"Why are you so careless?" Lenny said in a reproachful tone.

He walked over to her and checked her wound. Then, he took her to the living room and grabbed the first aid kit.

"You... You aren't asleep yet?" Scarlet was stunned. She thought everyone had already gone to bed.

Arching his eyebrows, Lenny asked, "Why aren't you asleep?"

"I... I got hungry."

"This makes me wonder how you got by in the past," Lenny said unhappily. He then disinfected her wound, applied some medicine, and bandaged her finger.

"I... I guess I just muddled through somehow," Scarlet said casually and pulled her hand back.

She asked, "Well, I want to eat some noodles. Would you like to join me?"

Lenny wanted to refuse because he wasn't used to having a midnight snack.

But when he smelled what Scarlet was cooking, he suddenly felt his stomach grumble.

He made up his mind and agreed, "Okay."

"Then I'll add two eggs for you."

Scarlet stood up and went back to the kitchen to continue cooking. Soon, two bowls of hot noodles were ready.

Scarlet was so hungry that she gulped down her bowl of noodles like it wasn't piping hot. A haze of steam covered her oval-shaped, delicate face.

Her eyes were as bright and beautiful as a starry night sky.

Lenny couldn't take his eyes off of her.

She pouted and blew on her noodles to cool it down a bit.

Looking at Scarlet's pink, pouted lips, Lenny found himself swallowing and felt his heart skip a beat.

He actually... wanted to taste her lips.

Damn it. He quickly looked away and suppressed his thoughts.

"Why aren't you eating your noodles? If they stick together, they won't taste as good anymore," Scarlet raised her head and asked in confusion.

Lenny didn't respond. He just started eating his noodles.

Scarlet watched Lenny as he ate. Even when he was dining, he looked elegant and noble.

Looking at him, she couldn't help sighing from the bottom of her heart.