My One-month Marriage With Mr. Hawkins

It was quiet in the room of darkness. With the sound of the steady breath, it seemed everyone was sleeping soundly.

At midnight.

Ernest slowly opened his eyes. Looking at the darkness, he hesitated for a moment.

He slightly sat up and saw the muddled woman on the sofa through the darkness.

She was sleeping soundly.

In the past two nights, he couldn’t sleep tight because of the injury. Sometimes, he was thirty, and he would ask the nursing worker to pour the water for him. However, it was Florence taking care of him tonight...

He paused for a bit, then lifted his quilt gently without any hesitation, ready to get off from the bed.

However, as soon as he moved, the woman muffled, “What’s up?”

As she spoke, Florence got up from the sofa immediately. In the dark, she walked to Ernest.

Seeing that Ernest had sat up, she immediately stood in his way.

“Are you going to use the bathroom?”

In the dark, they couldn’t see each other’s face clearly, but Ernest gazed at her outline.

He was quite surprised. “Haven’t you fallen asleep yet?”

“Yes, I have.” Florence shook her head, wondering if she should turn on the light.

Ernest asked again, “How come you woke up, then? I remember you always sleep like a log.”

“You are injured. I dare not to sleep too soundly,” Florence answered quite naturally as if that was what she ought to be.

However, her answer shook Ernest’s heart. He looked at the woman in front incredibly.

He wondered if it meant that she cared about him.

Noticing that Ernest kept a long silence, Florence panicked. “What happened? Are you feeling not well? I’ll call the doctor over right now.”

As she spoke, Florence was ready to trot out of the ward, but her wrist was grabbed by his big and thick hand.

She was taken aback.

the darkness and said in a deep voice, “I’m just

a sigh of relief. As long as he

moment, please. I’ll pour

poured a glass of warm water from the mini-kitchen. She had put some water in the thermos cup in advance, which

said, “Let me know whatever you want to do. Don’t get off from

to look for the water in case she hadn’t woken up just now. It was

Ernest felt as if his heart was gently touched by a

corner of the quilt that she just tucked him

“Get in.”

at

“I’m a bit cold.”

that he needed someone’s body

she said, “I’ll give you another

can’t have anything heavy

about I turn on

air would be quite dry, which is bad

Florence was speechless.

sense. Hence, her body temperature

the limited space next to Ernest, Florence

was fine in the past when she hadn’t realized that she had a crush on him. When she was sharing the bed with him, she would think that he was taking advantage of her, and she could deal with it calmly. However, now she had known that she liked him

was a small motor in

the dark, Ernest couldn’t read Florence’s expression, but he could feel

dimmed in an instant. With a long face, he

he intended to pull

to. I

longer, Florence hopped onto

acted a bit fast without control. Her petite body clung

at him while he opened his arms, it looked as if

the mixture

“I... I’m sorry. Did I bump into

the bed, the man’s arm

his deep voice above her head. “Don’t move. You are just

dare to move

was steady and powerful. However, it sounded a bit faster than

she herself was too tense that her heart was hammering, so she also

head as if she were a cooked shrimp. She felt more nervous and panicked than