Chapter 384 The Spaghetti
At this hour, the surprise visitor could only be Dalton.
Sure enough, a few minutes later, the door to Meryl’s room was pushed open.
Dalton was shrouded in coldness, leaving the light off as if he feared it might hurt her eyes.
“Meryl, I know you are not asleep.”
His hoarse voice rang out in the darkness. With the help of the light from the corridor, he approached her bed.
“Why didn’t you eat? Despite your anger at me, you shouldn’t risk your own health, right, Meryl?”
Dalton’s tone was incredibly gentle. He stretched out his hand, seeming to tuck Meryl’s bangs behind her ears.
She subconsciously dodged, and his hand just fell on her cheek.
The burning touch made her frown uncomfortably.
Meryl didn’t expect that Dalton would still have a fever after two days.
She was impatient. She turned on the bedside lamp and gazed coldly into his eyes.
“What on earth do you want to do? Dalton, you are not such an—mend your ways!”
Dalton sighed helplessly, “Meryl, I am indeed not an irrational person, but you will always be my exception."
“Do you think that your disappearance will worry everyone?”
He smiled, “No, you are wrong. You disappeared for a whole day, but everyone went about their lives as usual, busy with their own matters.
Meryl’s brows furrowed.
“Chandler returned from his business trip to Griffore, but he didn’t look for you.
“Meryl, you are not important to him at all. I told you that he married you just to annoy me. You are just a dispensable pawn for him that can be discarded at any time.”
Meryl subconsciously tightened the quilt in her hands.
How was that possible?
Chandler came back from Griffore and found that she was missing but chose not to look for her.
This didn’t make sense. Even if they had an argument that day, wouldn’t Chandler be worried after she suddenly disappeared and couldn’t be contacted?
Thinking of her cell phone that had been taken away by Dalton, Meryl understood something.
She glanced at him in disbelief.
“Did you use my phone to talk to him? Dalton, give it back to me!”
Dalton tucked Meryl into the quilt. “Don’t be angry. Have a good rest. I’ll cook some spaghetti for you.”
He stood up from the bed, shaking noticeably.
Having a high fever for a whole day and night and falling into the lake in the middle of winter had caused great damage to his health.
Dalton was still in the hospital. However, when the servants called him, saying that Meryl had not eaten all day, he immediately rushed over.
There was no doctor making rounds in the middle of the night, so no one would know about his sudden departure.
Meryl narrowed her eyes slightly. “Don’t waste your time. I won’t eat it. Dalton, let me out, or I will starve myself to death.”
“Meryl, you haven’t tried my spaghetti yet, have you? It’s my first time making it, so please don’t be put off.”
Dalton turned a deaf ear to her words. He left her room, went to the kitchen, and put on an apron.
When Meryl stepped out in her coat, he anxiously watched a cooking video on his phone, looking quite flustered.
The water in the pot came to a boil, and he added the spaghetti.
The steaming spaghetti was brought to Meryl, but she remained indifferent.
As a wealthy man in Kingsdom with a high fever, he came all the way to visit her just to cook a plate of spaghetti for her. He even fed her…
Meryl found it quite ridiculous.
“Dalton, do you know that you can only move yourself?”
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Meryl gazed at Dalton indifferently. “I don’t love you anymore. No matter what you do, that won’t change.”
“Wake up. I can’t be locked up forever. If I get out, how will you face the Aniston family?”
It was not wise for him to act so recklessly.
“Meryl, you still love me. Look, you are afraid that the Aniston family will blame me. Don’t worry. At worst, I can disown the Aniston family.”
Meryl was helpless.
Dalton said, “Come on. Eat spaghetti. Even if it’s not for yourself, you have to consider the baby in your belly, right?”
When he mentioned the baby, Meryl immediately became alert. “Do you know about it?”
No wonder she searched everywhere but couldn’t find the report during the day. She thought it had fallen somewhere. It turned out that Dalton had taken it away.
“Don’t worry. I won’t hurt the baby.”
As if to prove it, Dalton forked the spaghetti into his mouth and took a bite. “I didn’t poison it.”
He chewed it and then frowned. “The taste seems a little bland…”
Meryl was at a loss for words, sensing that Dalton resembled a child who had lost his toy.
It was clear that he could never find it, and they couldn’t go back to the way they were before. Yet, why was he unwilling to admit the fact? Why did he keep deceiving himself?
Did he think that she would change her mind?
Meryl didn’t eat a single bite of the spaghetti. She went back to her room and locked the door.
Dalton wanted to come in but stopped after discovering that the door was locked from the inside.
“I have to rush back to the hospital. Meryl, you should get some rest early. I’ll come back to see you in two days.”
Meryl remained silent, and her mind was in a mess.
Obviously, it was impossible to reason with Dalton now.
In her eyes, he had always been arrogant. Yet, he put on an apron, cooked for her, and even coaxed her in a surprisingly humble way. It was utterly shocking.
The gate slammed shut, and the car drove away.
Meryl lay on the bed, staring at the ceiling, undoubtedly unable to sleep.
She couldn’t just wait without doing anything. She had to think of a way to escape.