The Promise of Happiness (Natalie and Samuel) novel Chapter 454

Chapter 454 Her Soft Spot

Samuel stayed beside Natalie after carrying her over to the bed.

He brushed his hands lightly across her cheeks, trailing the tear stains on her face. “You did it on purpose, didn’t you? You sat on the ground drinking on a cold night because you wanted to get sick deliberately, right?”

As Samuel pointed out, she drank over her limits because the pain of losing her child was too much for her to bear.

She buried her pain deep down in her heart, but her well-concealed grief was let loose that day.

At the end of the day, she was not as tough as she made herself up to be.

All this while, she had been putting up a strong front just to conceal and protect the fragility in her

Now that she was drunk, she could not really hear what Samuel said. She held on to her clothes, mumbling to him softly like a cat. “I-I’m sorry…”

She thought Samuel was angry with her so she apologized to him.

“I’m not trying to control you. I’m just afraid you might catch a cold,” Samuel said before pausing to look at her. “I’ll ask Gavin to carpet the floor if you like drinking on the ground.”

Despite what he said, Natalie still apologized to him over and over again.

“Why do you keep saying you’re sorry?”

“I’m sorry… I should’ve stayed strong,” she muttered, clenching his shirt with her small hands. “I promise I will get myself together tomorrow. Just let me do what I want till then.”

“What can I do to help?”

“Nothing, really…” Natalie shook her hand at him. Sorrow clouded her almond-shaped eyes. “It’s too late to do anything now.”

Samuel was lost. There was nothing else he could do for her except for giving her a hug.

Natalie cried in his embrace until her strength left her. As time passed, she fell asleep in his arms with stains of tears on her face.

Seeing this, Samuel wiped them off tenderly as memories of what she had been through flooded him.

Yes, she was bright, wise, and talented, but she also had had her fair share of hardships in life.

Some scars were especially difficult to deal with, and he did not want to force her to open up to him. He simply wanted to be there by her side whenever she was in pain.