Chapter 139 How is the investigation? (2/2)

”Finish the snack,” Jeremy ordered.

Jacob looked at the plate of chocolate moist cake and a small bowl of strawberry jelly. He gulped. Finish all?

Jeremy stopped in front of Ryn's room. It was, as he predicted it, closed tight. Jeremy leaned his back against the door and closed his eyes. From the silence in the room, Ryn must be already sleeping.

They were so close yet so far. He thought it would make it easier to make her his but his plan could not go forward when she being her serious mood. She would take care of him as if he was a child but once she saw hin slowly getting better, she only gave a slight attention, just making sure he ate his meal and medicine and not to work too hard, focussing on giving his body a lot of rest.

But he told himself it was better than her giving him a cold shoulder.

He sighed after a while and started to move to his own room. He closed the door and went straight to the sofa. He sat on it, staring at the wall quietly.

”Young Master.”

He looked at the butler who came in. ”What is it?”

”Miss Catherine just informed me she will not join you for dinner,” the butler told politely.

”I understand. You can go now.”

The butler nodded his head politely and excused himself. He did not even forget to lock the door on the way out of the room.l

Jeremy leaned his head against the cushion and closed his eyes. He took a deep breath to stay calm.

It seemed like Ryn was still unable to control her emotion. She tried hard not to show it but each time someone asked her about her condition, she could no longer hold onto the poker face or the smiling mask on her face. It was as if she was trying hard not to show her emotion but it was eating her inside.

What could he do to help her?

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Ryn looked at her naked body silently. Instead of wrapping herself in the bathrobe after the shower, she stared at herself in the mirror in her most natural state. She even took off all the bandages, revealing all the wounds that were healing up.

The price of being safe.

Was she truly safe?

She finally put on the bathrobe and walked slowly toward her bed. Instead of putting on her clothes and prepared herself for dinner, she just lied on the bed, curling herself, and closed her eyes tightly.

When would this nightmare go away?

Was this a sign for her to make up her mind?

But the worry of being in pain like two years ago made her heart unwilling to enter the same state again.

She reached for her phone and looked for a name. It did not take long before her call went through.

”Hello, sweetheart. Are you alright?”

”Mom?”

It seemed like she kept calling her mother for advice every other day. Luckily her mother always answered the call and was not even mad despite the weird time she needed to talk with her mother.

”Yes, darling. I am here.”

”What... What if I move in with you?”

There was a pause.

”Why do you want to do that?” her mother asked carefully. Ryn never once asked to follow them before. She would rather live alone than moving from one place to another. And Ryn also never liked when she knew it was hard to eat her favourite meat and junk food when she was with them. That was why they also deliberately living apart from their daughter for quite some time, just to give Ryn some space to be herself.

”I'm not sure,” Ryn murmured frustratedly. The thought of living with her parents suddenly popped into her mind while she was waiting for her mother to answer the call. It felt like it was the best choice.

But she still had a lot of commitments to do and could not live far from where she was right now!