Chapter 379 Josiah got down from the bed, walked over to her, and said, “That was why I didn‘t allow you to drink that tea earlier. Look at you, not feeling sleepy at all.”
He picked her up in his arms and placed her down on the bed. “Try to get some sleep even if you‘re not feeling sleepy.” Meredith replied with a soft grunt.
“Give me the bracelets.” Josiah reached out his hand to her.
“Why?”
“So that I can put them on the desk.”
Meredith handed the bracelets to him.
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Even without the bracelets, Meredith still did not feel sleepy. She was turning around in his arms.
Josiah, on the other hand, was feeling rather sleepy as he had spent an entire evening collecting seashells with her.
Josiah fell asleep shortly after.
Meredith was bored so she turned to the other side of the bed and stared at the view outside the windows.
It was dark outside but the lights from the light tower lit up the sea. The scenery was like a painting
“It‘s so pretty…” Meredith murmured softly under her breath. Looking over at Josiah who was already asleep, she complained, “What a waste, you‘re missing out on such a bea
Meredith then shut her eyes, trying to go to sleep. But she just did not feel sleepy. So she started ‘harassing‘ the man sleeping next to her. Poking Josiah‘s cheeks with her finger
Josiah was in the middle of sleeping. He turned to the other side when Meredith started‘ harassing‘ him.
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Meredith did not give up and continued calling out to him, “Joe? Joe, wake up.” When he turned in the bed, his night robe came loose slightly, revealing his chest.
The scar on his chest caught Meredith‘s attention. She traced her fingers along the scar.
There were two scars and they were close to each other.
She had seen the scars before but she did not think much about it,
Meredith was suddenly reminded of what she read online, about how she and Josiah had a love
–hate relationship. She wondered if the scars had anything to do with her. This was also the first time she was curious about how Josiah ended up with these scars.
Just when she was lost in her own thoughts, her hand was grabbed by Josiah. Meredith was slightly stunned. At
the sight that Josiah was now awake, she pulled into a smile, “You‘re awake, Joe?“.
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Josiah pulled her in closer to him, grabbed her chin, and stared at her intently. “You don‘t feel like sleeping, do you? If that‘s the case, let‘s do it then.”
“Do what?” Meredith looked dazed.
“Make love.”
With a tug, Josiah was now on top of her, staring down at her. “You insisted on drinking tea when I didn‘t allow you to do so. And now you‘re harassing me when you can‘t sleep,
“But how?”
“Knives.”
Meredith inhaled sharply, “It must be really painful then. You should‘ve been more careful, Joe.”
“It was a careless mistake,” He added.
“But,” Meredith studied the scars carefully and added, “why are there two scars then? Seems to me that you got these scars at a different time.”
She pointed to one of the scars and said, “It seems like you got this one first.” She then pointed to the second scar. “This one seems recent.” Frowning, she asked, “How could it