Chapter 93 A Long Night Together
Benjamin kept listening to everything Amelia said.
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For the first time since she began caring for Nina, Amelia didn’t feel that familiar, lonely helplessness during Nina’s sick night.
By the time Nina finished crying, she was exhausted.
She fell asleep on Benjamin’s chest, her small face flushed bright red.
Even asleep, she sometimes let out a tiny sob. She had truly suffered tonight.
Amelia said, “Benjamin, let me hold her while she sleeps. You should go rest.”
Nina couldn’t lie on her back with her skin overheated. And when she felt miserable, she refused to leave an adult’s arms.
So Amelia planned to sit against the headboard and let Nina sleep on her all night.
Benjamin knew what Amelia intended.
He didn’t hand Nina back. “I’ll hold her. You should rest for a bit.”
His tone was calm, yet somehow impossible to refuse.
Amelia bit her lip, struggling internally for a long moment before gathering her courage.
She said, “No need. You’ve already helped so much tonight. You should go rest.”
Benjamin had already done more than enough, and Amelia still wasn’t used to giving Nina over to him completely.
Even after she repeated her refusal twice, Benjamin still didn’t let go of Nina.
He sat down on her bed, leaning against her headboard. One long leg stretched out, the other bent up just . enough to support Nina more securely.
Calling her name, he fixed his deep, quiet gaze on her face. “Amélia, did you forget what I told you?”
Caught off guard by his eyes, Amelia froze, unable to think.
She had no idea what he was referring to.
While she stared at him in confusion, Benjamin looked at her tired yet flawless face. His low voice sounded quietly in the night. “You’re allowed to trouble me a little more. I want to.”
His voice-deep, low, magnetic-paired with that face, was simply too much for a night like this.
Amelia was completely thrown off.
Her face flushed instantly, the tips of her ears turning bright red.
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Chapter 93 A Long Night Together
And when she was this embarrassed, her skin always took on a soft pink glow.
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Benjamin watched Amelia kneeling half on the bed in front of him, her delicate face blooming with color, her skin turning rosy.
His gaze darkened slightly.
“I…” Amelia stuttered, unable to form a sentence.
She kept her eyes down, avoiding his gaze. Once she stopped looking at him, she finally managed to speak more steadily.
“Then I’ll rest for a bit first. We can switch later. Wake me up in the second half of the night, and I’ll hold her.”
Benjamin let out a quiet “Mm.”
Amelia heard it and assumed he agreed. Bracing herself, she lay down to rest.
Even without speaking, Benjamin’s presence was overwhelming.
Facing him, she couldn’t fall asleep at all.
After forcing herself for a while, she grit her teeth and turned her back to him, closing her eyes and pushing herself into sleep.
Though it took her a long time to fall asleep, once she did, her whole body relaxed.
Her sleeping posture wasn’t very good. Like Nina, she kicked off her blanket while sleeping.
And she still hadn’t changed out of her thin camisole before lying down.
The moment she kicked off the blanket and shifted a little, the cool strap top barely covered anything.
Holding Nina in his arms, Benjamin’s eyes rested directly on Amelia.
All the labels she’d stuck on him-“a decent, proper man,” “wouldn’t look around inappropriately,” “distant from women”-were instantly proven wrong.
Benjamin was none of those things.
He stared at her sleeping face, expression unreadable, though his mind drifted back to that night three years
ago.
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