Bella was a little self-conscious due to last night’s events, so she was reasonably absent-minded today.
Edwin looked at her discomposed expression, He raised his hand to caress her hair and asked softly, “Bella, What’s wrong? Is there something on your mind?”
He was so tolerant and warm that it effortlessly touched the fragile place in her heart and provoked her to sob.
Bella lowered her head, casually fiddled with the fork in her hand and said with gently, “I am okay.” She paused, “Well, actually something bad happened to my friend, so I don’t know what I should do now, and I’m just baffled.”
She looked up at him with some apology in her eyes and continued, “I am sorry for the effect on you.”
Edwin gently touched her hair as if he was pacifying a fidgety kitten and then said, “My s
