Charlotte had a dream at night.
She dreamed of what happened that night more than a month ago. The man hugged her strongly and kissed her passionately and enthusiastically. She felt his hot breath and heard his low gasping.
She turned over and pulled back the quilt because she was hot, and then she opened her eyes.
It was already dawn, the sun shed a soft glow into the house from the window, and the air in the morning was fresh.
It had been so long. Why would she dream of that man?
In her dream, the man was also very powerful.
But she could not hear his voice clearly anymore.
She wiped the sweat on her forehead and felt that her throat tickled. She covered her mouth and coughed a few times. Then she suddenly remembered that Kennedy was still asleep, and took a peep at him who was lying on the bed not far away.
Kennedy was sleeping, and she was afraid of waking him up, so she tried not to cough loudly. However, she felt so uncomfortable with her throat, so she had to get up quickly and then eased into the bathroom without wearing shoes.
She stayed in the bathroom and coughed for quite a while. And then she brushed her teeth.
Kennedy didn’t have a deep sleep, so he woke up when Charlotte turned over, but he didn't open his eyes.
After a while, he heard that she was coughing and covered her mouth to make herself not cough loudly. And then she moved into the bathroom quickly.
Immediately afterwards, a suppressed cough came from the bathroom, as if she didn't want him to hear it.
However, the room was not so big, no matter how she suppressed her cough, he could still hear it. Moreover, the surrounding environment was very quiet, and there was no noise, so he could hear her cough clearly.
And then he thought about what Nathan said to him last night.
"Ms. Wilson is pregnant now. It seems that it’s not good for her health if she sleeps on the ground."
It was almost the autumn. And there was only a quilt for her on the ground. It was indeed not good for her to sleep on the ground.
Kennedy opened his eyes and blinked, and then he closed his eyes.
But he was thinking that she was coughing in the bathroom.
After a while, he felt annoyed and pulled back the quilt. He glanced at the alarm clock and found that there was one hour left before he had to get up.
Charlotte came out after brushing her teeth, and she found that Kennedy had gotten up. She felt a little embarrassed suddenly, "Sorry. Did I bother you?"
Kennedy frowned after hearing that.
She was self-aware and knew that she had awakened him.
Charlotte was not used to sleeping in a bra at night. But she would rush into the bathroom to wear her bra after she got up every morning. Today she did not care about it because she coughed just now.
Now she saw Kennedy and then thought that she did not wear a bra. Therefore, she felt embarrassed.
"Since you knew that you would awaken me, why didn’t you keep quiet?"
Faced with his accusation, Charlotte couldn't refute it, because she really woke him up. Therefore, she could only lower her head and pinch the corner of her clothes and then said to him in a low voice, "I'm sorry..."
Sorry?
She looked weak, which made Kennedy even unhappier.
Didn’t she know how to fight back? She couldn’t control the cough herself! Didn’t she know how to refute?
"There is no point in apologizing!"
Charlotte lowered her head and did not know what to say. She felt uncomfortable as Kennedy looked at her coldly, and she really wanted to go back into the bathroom.
Kennedy did not know why he always thought that Charlotte was completely different from what he had imagined.
He thought that she would fight back when she was bullied. However, she did not know how to fight back at all. What’s more, she looked grieved.
"I did not intend to awaken you." Finally, she glanced at Kennedy with her head up and said to him.
Kennedy's thin lips pressed tightly into a straight line.
"Come here."
Why? Charlotte was scared and dared not to come up to him.
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