Always Been Yours (Tessa and Nicholas) novel Chapter 404

Chapter 404 An Opportunity

The dining room kept reverberating with cheerful laughter as the three enjoyed a very homely dinner.

When they finished having dinner afterward, Tessa played with Gregory for a while in the garden before taking the little boy to wash up and sleep. After he fell asleep, she quietly left the room and then turned around to go to the study. “Nicholas, I’m coming in.” She knocked on the door and entered, only to see Nicholas sitting at his desk; he looked very attractive in his black bathrobe with a large part of his chest bare.

Nicholas’ stony features softened the instant he saw her. “Gregory’s asleep?”

“Yeah, he’s asleep.” Tessa came to her senses and nodded. Then, recalling her purpose for coming here, she went up to Nicholas with a serious look on her face. “You’d better fess up. What actually happened? Why the sudden decision to settle down here?”

Seeing the lady’s unusually serious expression in the brightly lit study, Nicholas curled his lips into a faint smile. He confessed, “It’s nothing, actually. It’s just that I resigned from my position as the Sawyer Group’s president.”

“You resigned from your position as president?” Tessa was taken aback. She asked with a look of disbelief, “Why? Did your family agree to it?”

“Even if they don’t agree to it, it doesn’t matter. I’m gone now,” Nicholas said while pulling Tessa into his arms. Then, he joked, “You’re probably gonna have to support Greg and me from now on.”

“Oh, with pleasure,” Tessa replied while hugging Nicholas back around the neck. Still, she couldn’t get Nicholas’ departure from home out of her mind. She asked, “Am I the reason you left?”

Tessa’s inner guilt lessened somewhat when she listened to Nicholas’ explanation and learned that her presence was just an opportunity. Still, her heart ached at the stress he had been under over these years. In a rare display of initiative, she leaned forward and planted a kiss on his warm lips. She comforted him, saying, “In that case, you may have a good rest here these days. Let’s not think about those depressing things.”

Nicholas’ deep eyes darkened at the soft and brief touch on his lips, and he stared fixedly at Tessa’s pink and tender lips.

The man’s gaze was so intense that Tessa couldn’t ignore it. A delicate glow slowly spread over her cheeks, making her look very sweet and charming as a lovely pinkness showed through her fair skin.

The couple’s heads drew closer to each other under the light as their warm, damp breaths mingled in the air. The moment their lips met, the longing that they had been suppressing all this while was unleashed, and the air in the study started to heat up.