Chapter 368: Chapter 368



Suddenly, there was a warmth that slowly surrounded her from behind. She opened her eyes sharply and turned her head … the face that came into her view was the one that was so familiar to the point of being almost carved into her bones.

In reality, nothing had happened. Everything was fine.

But she had no idea why she felt anguish in her heart, as if a hole had been punched in it and her chest had been left empty. She wanted to find something to fill it.

She turned and threw herself into his arms. Her hands gripped his slender waist tightly.

Matthew looked down, stroked her hair, and asked softly, “What happened to you?”

He could sense that she was not in a good mood today.

Dolores buried her face in his embrace and murmured, “Let me hold you for a while. Just a little while will be enough.”

She needed a little time to adjust her mood. She would soon be fine if she was given a little time.

Matthew said nothing more, but hugged her tightly.

Matthew’s palm was wide and thick, it was so warm that it seemed to be able to soothe her mind.

gⱯlnσνe𝓁s․com has the stories you love He stroked Dolores’ back. Dolores slowly calmed in his embrace.

She lifted her head and asked after holding on for a while, “Why are you here?”

Matthew kissed her forehead, stroked the hair on her forehead and said softly, “Uncle invited me to lunch. I’ve come to take you with me.” Dolores’s eyelashes trembled and she felt that something was wrong.

Marina also came to invite her to dinner today, but in the end she changed her mind and left in a hurry.

Was it one dinner date or two different dinner dates?

“Was it Auntie who called you?” tried to ask Dolores.

“No.” It was Jeffery who had contacted him.

Dolores suddenly realized why Marina had changed her mind so abruptly. Most likely this dinner was a trap for them.

However, if the dinner was a trap, who did Jeffery want to go against?

According to Marina, Jeffery was a firm believer in Matthew’s identity. So, obviously, he wouldn’t do anything bad to him. If his target wasn’t Matthew…

Dolores suddenly realized everything. Marina declared Matthew’s identity before leaving and, at the same time, reminded Dolores of her situation. Marina also asked her about her relationship with Victoria.

Could it be that Jeffery knew about her and Victoria’s relationship? Was this dinner a trap for her?

At the moment she was almost certain of her assumption. Marina left suddenly, probably because she regretted it or because she couldn’t find it in her heart to do this to them.

Dolores was nervous because she didn’t know how much Jeffery knew.

She wasn’t sure if Marina’s arrival was just a ploy to purposely distract her and, in fact, Jeffery already knew Matthew’s identity.

Her heart was filling with more and more conjecture, but no one could answer any of them.

She tightened her arms, “I don’t want to go, and I don’t want you to go. Can we go home?”

Her voice trembled unconsciously, and she spoke in a slightly hoarse voice.

Matthew didn’t hesitate at all: “All right.”

His frankness, his slightest hesitation, and his resolution made Dolores’ fluttering heart slowly calm down. A wave of warmth emanated from deep within her heart.

He could feel her feelings and her care for her at that moment.

He held her face and said this sentence without much thought, “Do you really like me? Do you like me, not because I am Simona and Samuel’s mother, but do you like me just because of who I am? Would you still want to be with me even if it were without the two children?” A fog covered her eyes.

She had lived over 20 years, and this was the first time she had ever asked a man if he liked her.

She was nervous, but at the same time, she was more intent on his answer.

She knew clearly that Matthew liked her.

So I wanted to know how he felt about her.

Earlier she had read a sentence from a book. The more a person cares, the more he fears to lose.

Did she already care enough to fear losing him?

He didn’t answer. Was it because he didn’t like her for who she was?

Suddenly flustered, she absently explained, “I…just randomly asked…”.

“I don’t know,” Matthew interrupted her at that point.

Her thick eyelashes hung down and formed the shadows of her eyelids. His voice was light but clear. He was dead serious, “I’m not sure how I feel about you. But all I know is that I want you to stay by my side. I will miss you if I don’t see you for a long time. Sometimes I think maybe you’re poisonous because you’ve taken my breath away. I’m not sure if this feeling is considered liking. If it isn’t, it doesn’t matter. I won’t give you any chance to leave me. You are mine forever, whether you are alive or dead.”

He was as domineering as ever.

He was so unique even when he expressed his feelings.

Dolores could not calm her heart. Her heart danced with joy and trembled at the same time. She was excited by everything unpredictable but real to her. She could hardly control herself.

“Have you gone stupid already?” Matthew pinched Dolores’ nose and hugged her, “I’ll take you out to eat whatever you want. It’s just the two of us.”

Dolores shook her head, “Uncle asked us out to dinner, didn’t he, how could we not go?” If you don’t risk, you don’t win.

She wanted to see what Jeffery intended to do.

Matthew raised his eyebrows slightly and asked, “Are all women this fickle?”

Dolores pretended to be serious. She tilted her head and nodded earnestly, “I think so. So you have to treat me right. Maybe someday I’ll change my heart…”

Matthew paused. Dolores lifted her head, why wasn’t Matthew still walking?

“Are you angry?”

Matthew looked at her with narrowed eyes. He wasn’t angry, but… She was threatening him!

“If you dare change your heart, I’ll break your leg.” He pretended to be fierce.

Dolores smiled as she relaxed her frown. She held his arms tightly.

They walked out of the store. Matthew’s car was parked on the side of the road. They made their way to the car. When they got into the car, Matthew leaned over her body to help her buckle her seat belt.

Dolores straightened her back, “Auntie came to the store today.”

The seat belt buckled with a click. Matthew lifted his head to meet her gaze.

Dolores looked at him, “She also came to invite me to dinner, but then she said she had something to do and left in a hurry. I’m not sure it’s the same dinner date as Uncle’s.”

Matthew squinted a little, and deep inside his eyes there was turbulence.

He had a feeling that something wasn’t right ever since Jeffery had asked him to go to the hotel to get the document last time.

“He even told me especially…”

Dolores paused deliberately.

“Mm?”

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