I Won't Go Back To My Family Who Abandon Me novel Chapter 102

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‘There must be another way.’

Leticia breathed heavily, and tucked the gift farther into the corner. She couldn’t afford to wear that now. She was eager to find another way.

Alone in the room, Leticia seriously pondered how to overcome this crisis.

No matter how much she thought about it, there was only one way.

“I’m really not scared.”

“Leticia.”

“I misspoke when I said I was scared.”

At dinner that night, Leticia confessed her feelings without concealing anything. She’d never had a disagreement with Enoch, but she was still nervous while talking to him, and glanced over at him.

Leticia was embarrassed that she had trouble figuring out how to speak to him, but Enoch nodded and said he understood perfectly. Leticia was inwardly relieved to see this.

But that night, Enoch hugged her as usual. It was so light that it felt empty.

They didn’t even hold hands, they just slept.

“….”

Only then did Leticia realize that Enoch thought she meant something else.

Eventually, she had no choice but to find another way.

Since then, she would slightly touch his chest before going to bed, and even showed clumsy temptation, such as rubbing her hands down his back. It was funny to say that it was temptations, but Leticia tried in her own way.

However, Enoch only looked at Leticia as if she was cute, and didn’t react in any way. Rather, he treated it as if he was watching a child’s sloppy prank.

As none of her methods returned a desired result, the direction of her anger poured on the innocent Enoch.

‘You’re only two years older than me!’

It was unfair and upsetting when he treated her like a child.

‘Do you think you married a child? You’re acting like you married a child!’

When she looked at Enoch, the words traveled all the way up her throat, but Leticia tried hard to hold it in. She couldn’t spend her precious time getting emotional.

In the end, Leticia decided to be more active in her approach.

“Are we just sleeping today as well…?”

That night, she whispered while hugging Enoch harder from behind. She purposefully used a voice that sounded as pathetic and languid as she could manage.

Enoch turned gently and brushed Letisha’s hair back.

“Are you sleepy?”

“Yes, let me sleep.”

She burrowed deeper into Enoch’s arms, and rubbed her lips on his neck. At that moment, Enoch seemed surprised, and gently rubbed Leticia’s back.

‘No way…’

She hoped it wouldn’t be, but her uneasy hunches were always right. When she slightly raised her head at the sound of Enoch’s regular breathing, she found that he’d fallen asleep while hugging her. He had such a gentle look on his face that it was hard to imagine his usual cold and sharp impression.

“Are you sleeping?”

She tapped Enoch’s cheek with her finger, wondering if he really was. She even stabbed his side, but there was no response.

“….”

As Leticia watched Enoch sleeping soundly, she could only think of one thing.

Tonight was ruined as well.

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“You’re usually so quick-witted!”

The next morning, while Enoch was out for a walk, Leticia angrily slammed Enoch’s pillow on the bed. She resented that he didn’t know how she felt this time.

In fact, she knew Enoch hadn’t done anything wrong. However, she was going crazy from being unable to reach him with her heart.

Now she had to go beyond shame.

‘Should I give up like this?’

Leticia fiercely licked her lips, and put the gift box she’d been rejecting loudly on the table.

“Okay, good.”

Let’s see who wins.

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Everything he did with Leticia was a first for him. First crush, first love, first date, and first kiss. There was nothing that wasn’t his first time.

So he was worried inside, and wondered if he was pushing his feelings on her.

Fortunately, Leticia always returned a bright smile to him, perhaps of the same mind. Enoch was very relieved inside and revealed his heart without hiding anything.

However, he realized after a while that he had been mistaken.

It would be a lie if he didn’t have expectations for the first night. But as always, Leticia’s feelings were more important than his expectations.

As he approached, Enoch carefully asked Leticia, whose head was bowed shyly.

“Don’t you like it?”

“It’s not that I don’t like it, I’m just a little scared.”

When he saw her blue eyes trembling, he thought he was wrong.

He’d poured out his feelings unilaterally.

Enoch liked her so much that he couldn’t control his emotions. Because he’d loved Leticia so much, he’d made her nervous. He abhorred himself for not controlling his greed, even though he said he’d protect her no matter what.

After that, Enoch was careful.

He didn’t want Leticia to have no choice, but to accept his feelings. However, the situation never flowed the way he wished.

“Are we just sleeping today as well…?”

As soon as he closed his eyes while forcibly asking for sleep that wouldn’t come, his heart dropped like a thud at the voice he heard behind him. Soon after, he couldn’t breathe when her thin arms hugged his waist.

Enoch barely swallowed a sigh, and turned around. His eyes met Leticia, who naively looked up at him as if she knew nothing.

‘I’m going crazy.’

He was resentful to see Leticia approaching him without knowing how he felt, but he couldn’t push her away because she was still lovely.

“Are you sleepy?”

“Yes, let me sleep.”

Let me sleep.

Enoch’s body hardened as he felt the sweet whisper of her voice, and the movement of her small lips on his neck.

‘If you knew what I was thinking, you’d want to go to sleep right away.’

Enoch struggled to suppress his greed, and patted Leticia’s back because he couldn’t express the feelings in his heart.

Until then, he hadn’t noticed what Leticia was thinking.

It was around the time when they had only two days left before they returned.

“This…”

What Leticia handed over was none other than a blindfold. Suddenly, he looked up as if he was wondering what it was, but Leticia just beckoned for him to put it on.

“You’ll be using it for a while.”

It reminded Enoch of the day he proposed marriage. He remembered that moment, and he smiled without realizing it, then asked.

“Is this a gift?”

At that time, he’d used a similar blindfold to lead Leticia to the four-leaf clover field.

He asked if it was for a similar reason, but Leticia just stared at him instead of answering.

“Oh, a gift… It might be a gift.”

“What?”