Billionaire's Match (Khloe and Nick Hunt) novel Chapter 1018

The reagent bag lay quietly inside the box.

Nick glanced at it, then handed the box back to her.

"Khloe."

"Mm?"

"Don't go out alone these days."

Khloe looked at him.

His expression was calm, but his tone was serious.

"Lacuna members are in Swinterland," he said. "They wouldn't appear here without a reason."

Her heart sank slightly.

"You mean…"

"I'm just telling you to be careful," Nick cut her off. "Nothing else."

Khloe said nothing. She leaned back into his embrace, the small box still in her hand.

Night deepened outside the window.

…

Two hours later, after spending an entire evening in the kitchen, Khloe finally brought out four dishes and a soup.

Nick sat at the dining table, looking at the full spread, the corners of his lips faintly curved.

"Are you sure we can finish everything?"

"If we can't finish it, we'll heat it up tomorrow," she said, sitting across from him. "Try it."

Nick picked up his fork and took a bite.

"How is it?"

"Good."

Khloe smiled. "You say that every time."

Nick looked at her.

Warm light fell across her face. Her eyes curved slightly when she smiled, and there was a bit of sauce at the corner of her lips.

He reached out and gently wiped it away with his thumb.

She froze for a moment, then her cheeks flushed slightly.

"What are you doing?"

"There was a smudge," Nick said.

She pressed her lips together and continued eating.

Nick watched her without speaking.

He knew she was hiding something.

He also knew what was inside that small box.

He didn't ask, because she wasn't saying. She wasn't saying because she didn't want him to worry.

But he already knew. From the moment Lucas sent him that message—T7, developed in Naraida, unknown extraction source.

He had looked into it. Biological extraction.

What those two words truly meant… he didn't dare think further.

Yet tonight, watching her moving around the kitchen, smiling, sitting quietly eating, he suddenly felt that none of it mattered anymore. What mattered was that she was still here with him.

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