Chapter 373

Jessamine felt nervous for no explicable reason. She didn't know why she felt this way. After all, she didn't sign her pen name on those sketches.

Thaddeus looked at her bare feet and held out a hand toward her. "Come here."

Jessamine looked at him with narrowed eyes. Then, she followed his orders and walked over to him.

With a hook of his arm, he lifted her onto his lap. "Aren't you tired? Why aren't you sleeping?"

Jessamine was a little distracted when she felt his breath tickling her neck. She tried to compose herself and stay rational. "I haven't tidied up my papers."

She didn't mention what she had been doing but simply called her work "papers". She had always been low-profile, so it was no wonder that Thaddeus had only believed she was making mindless scribbles.

"I won't lose them," he said. Thaddeus hugged her with one hand and turned on his laptop with the other. Upon hearing the gentle tilt in his words, Jessamine couldn't believe he was the real Thaddeus.

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