The CEO's Regret: Darling, Don’t Leave Me novel Chapter 155

Chapter 112: I Don’t See It That Way.-1

Clara

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The lunch continues… But something has changed. I feel good with him, there are no discomforts.

It is… deeper, it feels more real.

I continue to eat, but every now and then I look up and observe him. Ethan is quieter than usual

Not in that cold silence that I sometimes used in the past… but in a calmer one, as if he were

feeling something that he does not know very well how to put into words.

And I think I know why. Because I feel it too.

No matter how much he said that the food was fine, he was not satisfied, his face was… It was

different from what his answer showed.

“Is it very salty? Is that it?” I asked suddenly, breaking the silence.

He looks up at me immediately.

“No,” he replies. “It’s perfect, really.”

I nod, but I smile a little.

“You always say that.”

“Because you always cook like that,” he replies, without hesitation.

I learned to cook because of him, and not because he asked me to, I just wanted it that way. I

wanted to do it, I was excited to have a

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e where he could eat something prepared by my

His words take me by surprise, I look down at my plate, trying to hide the small smile that escapes

There’s something dangerous about this, really dangerous.

In how easy it feels, in how natural it is to share a table with him again, to talk like this… as if we

had never been separated.

As if there had been no distance, as if there had been no pain.

“I didn’t know if you were going to remember that you liked it that way,” I say quieter.

He puts down the cutlery for a moment.

“There are things that are not forgotten, Clara.”

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I slowly raise my gaze, our eyes meet. And time seems to stand still again.

I look away first, because holding onto that moment… feels too much.

“I’m glad you came,” I say, almost in a whisper.

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He doesn’t respond right away, but when he does, his voice is soft.

“Me too.”

Silence returns, but this time it is not uncomfortable. It is… full.

I finish eating some more and then get up to pick up some dishes.

I need to move, I need to do something with this feeling that grows in my chest.

“Leave them,” he says. “I’ll help you.”

“No, it’s okay…”

“Clara.”

His voice stops me, I look at him. And there it is again.

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That way of looking at me… that always manages to make me give in. I exhale gently.

“Okay.”

He gets up and approaches me, our movements crossing in the kitchen, coordinated without the

need to talk too much. Like before, like the early days…

It was always like this.

We worked together without getting in each other’s way, knowing exactly where the other was, and

what we were going to do.

And realize that… that’s still there… intact… it makes me feel something that I don’t know if it’s

relief or fear.

Maybe both, I take a plate and, unintentionally, our fingers touch again.

I freeze for a second, and so does he.

I look up and see him there… So close again.

My heart beats a little faster.

“Ethan,” I murmur, not quite sure what I’m going to say.

But I don’t finish, because really… I don’t know if I mean anything. Or if I just want to stay here, right

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now. With him.

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