The Coldest Man in the Room Melted Only for Me novel Chapter 394

Sebastian looked at Riley with a teasing smile in his eyes. "Why does it feel like we're having an illicit affair?"

Riley was speechless. She felt exactly the same way, but why did he have to say it out loud? It was incredibly embarrassing.

"Stop talking nonsense." Leaving those words behind, Riley walked out of the on-call room with a flushed face. The moment she reached the nurses' station, the night shift nurse asked her, "Dr. Vance, where's the patient you were giving a private treatment to last night?"

He was such a handsome patient, she had been hoping to catch another glimpse of him. But after he followed Dr. Vance into the back, he had never come out.

Riley hadn't expected her to still be obsessing over that. A flash of guilt crossed her eyes, but she maintained a perfectly calm facade. "He left a long time ago."

"How is that possible? I was watching the whole time. I never saw him leave." The nurse looked incredibly confused.

Riley was absolutely speechless. She had literally been watching the whole time?

Riley's fingers curled tightly inside the pockets of her white coat. "He probably left while you were doing your ward rounds."

"Oh, that makes sense." The nurse looked profoundly disappointed.

Right then, the call button at the station buzzed. The nurse got up to tend to a patient's room.

Riley immediately darted back into the on-call room, grabbed Sebastian's hand, and hurriedly dragged him toward the exit. "Hurry, let's go."

Watching Riley act as guilty as a thief, strands of gentle amusement surfaced in Sebastian's deep eyes. For her to be this panicked, she had clearly never done anything this rebellious in her life. It was quite a challenge for her.

And it was true. Riley had never done anything as absurd and daring as hiding a man in an on-call room and sleeping in the same bed with him. But she didn't regret it. Her heart had ached for him, and she just wanted him to get a good night's sleep. That was all.

She escorted Sebastian to the elevators. "You go down. I need to get back to work."

"What time do you get off?"

"Eight o'clock."

Sebastian nodded and stepped into the elevator.

Riley went back to the on-call room and neatly folded the blanket. As she smoothed the sheets, she noticed the faint, woody, cool scent of Sebastian lingering in the air.

The scent was a silent declaration that she had slept in this very bed with him last night. Her face involuntarily began to burn again.

After making the bed, Riley opened the window to ventilate the room, scattering the last trace of him. She couldn't let anyone find out.

At 8:20 AM, Riley finished her shift and took the elevator down to the underground parking garage. As she rounded a corner toward her car, she looked up and saw Sebastian standing right next to it.

He was still wearing his dark wool coat, his tall, lean frame exuding an aura of powerful elegance. He was holding some sort of takeout bags in his hands.

She quickly scanned her surroundings. Thankfully, she had stayed late to organize some patient files before coming down. The garage was practically empty.

She hurried over. "What are you doing here? There are so many people in a hospital."

Sebastian lifted the bags in his hands slightly. "Having breakfast with you."

Terrified of being spotted, Riley instantly unlocked the car and pulled open the back door. "Get in."

Sebastian slid in.

She took a bite. It was soft, fragrant, and smooth. Both the congee and the dumplings were absolutely divine. "Why aren't you eating?"

"I had the wontons you bought earlier. I'm not hungry right now."

As Riley ate the dumplings, Sebastian occasionally fed her a spoonful of congee. She wanted to eat it herself, but he refused to let her. By the time she finished a massive soup dumpling, she had only eaten half the congee. She was completely full and couldn't eat another bite.

She was just thinking about what a shame it was to waste such delicious congee when she saw Sebastian use the exact spoon she had been eating from to finish the rest of her bowl.

The formidable CEO of St. John Global was eating someone else's leftovers. This was completely unprecedented.

And he did it so naturally, without a single trace of disgust.

Even when she had been married to Pierce, Pierce had never eaten her leftovers. He always maintained the dignified, pristine image of a wealthy elite. He would never lower himself to accept the messy, ordinary remnants of her life.

But Sebastian was different.

He held immense power and should have cared more about dignity and status than anyone. Yet in this moment, he couldn't care less about the lingering warmth on the spoon. He casually swallowed the half bowl of congee she had left behind.

It wasn't out of obligation, and it wasn't a calculated show. It was a genuine, effortless acceptance. He was entirely willing to step down from his pedestal and stand right beside her as an equal.

Watching the man casually eat the congee, Riley couldn't stop the deep tremor of emotion in her chest.

Sensing her gaze, Sebastian turned to her. "What's wrong?"

Riley shook her head. It was nothing. Just that the more she got to know him, the closer she got to him... the more she liked him.