Bonnie lifted her head to stare at Jim’s sharp, chiseled jawline, her eyelashes quivering. “What … What
did you just say?”
“You’ll be fine, B,” Jim repeated without hesitation.
As soon as he said this, he froze.
Why…did he call her that?
He had called her by her full name from the moment he met her, and not only had he never referred to
her as ‘B’ before, he had never heard anyone, not even her closest friends, call her that.
If that was the case, why had he been compelled to call her that?
As opposed to Jim’s shock, Bonnie’s face was etched with disbelief and excitement.
When he had said that, all the words that came out of Jim’s mouth, and even his tone, sounded identical
to the old Jim!
Did this mean that…the old Jim would return soon?
As soon as she thought of this, Bonnie stared at Jim’s chiseled face, her eyes brimming with tears.
“Jim…” her voice was shaking as she muttered, “I believe you.”
She believed him when he said she would be fine.
She believed that one day, the old Jim would return.
Bonnie was sure of it!
Otherwise, Jim would not have said this just when she was on the verge of giving up on him.
For a split second, a crazy thought crossed Bonnie’s mind; could it be that the old Jim had somehow
broken through Charlotte’s control over him and had said that to tell her not to give up on him?
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Bonnie bit her lip, and tears started to fall as she stared at the man before her.
Jim could not help feeling even more guilty when he saw her crying.
He thought she was crying due to the excruciating pain from his punch.
He never knew how pitiful Bonnie would look when she cried, and even though she had cried for him in
the past, he would always feel disgusted and repulsed by her.
However, for some reason, he could not help taking pity on her when he saw her tears fall.
Maybe it was the drug’s effects, maybe it was the sheer guilt of accidentally hurting a defenseless
woman, or perhaps it was both.
Jim reached out to gently wipe Bonnie’s tears away and said in a somewhat feeble voice,” Don’t cry.”
However, as soon as he said this, Bonnie could not hide her tears anymore.
She clutched his shirt, sobbing.
It hurt a lot. Bonnie had always been skinny and frail, but apart from that, she had sustained a wound on
her belly because of her previous injury.
However, the hurt seemed to come more from her heart than her body.
Jim grew even more nervous when he noticed her sobs were growing louder.
He bit his lip, let out a sigh, and fixed his gaze on Bonnie’s face. “You… What do I have to do to get you
to stop crying? Hmm?”
He could not stand to see her crying any longer.
Bonnie bit her lip and immediately uttered a request that even Sean found a little hard to accept, “Can
you hug me, call me B again, and rub my belly for me?”
In the past, Jim would always do this to soothe her period cramps.
Even though she was not on her period at the moment…it seemed to hurt a lot more.
However, she regretted it almost as soon as she felt the words leave her mouth.
She had lost control of herself; she had forgotten that this was not the same Jim she had fallen in love
with anymore…
He would never agree to do this.
As soon as she thought of this, she turned her head away and let go of his hand. “Never mind. Pretend I
never said that.”
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