When Her Death Couldn't Break Him (Cecilia and Nathaniel) novel Chapter 2269

The corner of Adrian's mouth twitched.

He knew exactly what he amounted to now. He didn't dare get upset with Miranda.

"I was just asking. Why are you so worked up? If I interrupted you, I apologize."

He added, "I'm sorry. I was only asking if you wanted to eat. It's fine. I'll head downstairs."

Miranda looked at how meek he was now.

Her eyes held nothing but disdain.

He hadn't been much use before either, but he hadn't been this spineless.

Now he had really changed, and the change was hard to look at.

"Got it. You can go out. I'm not eating. I'm not in the mood."

"Okay. If you get hungry later, tell Auntie to make you something fresh."

After saying that with a note of concern, Adrian finally left.

Once he was gone, Miranda stepped over and shut the door.

After making sure he wouldn't come back again, she kept calling that man.

It was nothing like talking to Adrian.

With the man on the other end, she talked with obvious energy.

From inside the bedroom, her bright voice drifted out now and then.

Outside, Adrian hadn't gone far.

He vaguely caught her laughter and paused over it, but he didn't think much of it.

He had never amounted to much himself.

When it came to work and everything else, Miranda handled it all.

Because of that, he was even less willing to make Miranda mad.

*****

This time, Robert had really been admitted to the hospital.

He looked like he'd aged several years overnight.

He lay on the hospital bed, sighing again and again.

He couldn't make sense of it.

He had dominated the business world for so many years, so how had he ended up falling into the hands of a young man?

Then all at once, someone knocked on the door to the hospital room.

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