Chapter 667 Don’t Cry, Tessa
A tremble ran through Tessa’s body when she heard that and she turned around in surprise. “Why are you here?”
“I promised you that I’ll be here to watch you perform, but I disappointed you in the end,” Nicholas answered, his face filled with guilt.
As she listened to him, she felt her eyes brimming with unshed tears. Did this man come all the way here because of this promise?
At the thought of this, his words touched her, so her tears trickled down her face, but he didn’t notice as her back faced him.
When he saw that she was silent after his apology, he thought she was upset because he had broken his promise. So, he hugged her from behind as he tried to coax her.
“Don’t be mad, alright? I promise this won’t happen again. It’s my fault for not keeping my promise this time. As long as you won’t be angry, you can vent at me however you like, but don’t be mad anymore, Tessa.”
As she listened to a man as proud as Nicholas apologizing gently in such kind words, Tessa felt that her heart was going to melt and she couldn’t hold back anymore as she turned around to return his hug and started to sob softly.
Actually, she wasn’t angry at him for being unable to attend her concert. She was simply too worried and her nerves were tense the whole time, so she didn’t know how to react when she finally saw him.
Nicholas was at a loss when he saw her cry, and he felt very guilty for disappointing her and making her sad. “Don’t cry. I won’t go back on my word in the future anymore,” he comforted gently while gently patting her back to calm her down.
After Tessa cried in his arms for a couple of minutes, she mumbled, “I’m not angry.” Then, she raised her head, wiped away her tears, and flashed him a smile. “I’m just so happy to see you.”
The smile on her face didn’t seem forced or faked, and he breathed a huge sigh of relief.
He had no experience in coaxing girls and would be out of wits if she continued crying. “Was your performance tonight successful?”
“Yes, it was,” Tessa answered and was about to say something before she recalled that he was hurt. So, she immediately changed the subject as she asked in concern, “How is your body doing? I heard from Edward that you’re injured. Is it serious?”
“I’m fine.”
To avoid her from worrying about him, Nicholas didn’t tell her the truth, but looking at his pale face, she didn’t believe a thing he said.
“Where’s your injury? Let me see it,” she said, reaching out and feeling his body for his injury.
Helpless, he answered, “I’m fine, really.” Then, he tried to distract her by grabbing her hands and saying gently, “It’s getting late. We should meet up with Timothy and Greg now.”
Alas, the more he tried to stop her, the more worried she became.
“No, I’ll have to check out your injury first,” she insisted, drawing out her hand from his grip, but she heard him grunt softly instead. “Did I hurt you?”
Tessa was distraught when she saw how he was trying to bear the pain as he inhaled sharply.
Nicholas didn’t want her to blame herself, so he deliberately put up a front as he comforted her, “It’s got nothing to do with you. Don’t worry.”
“How can I not worry when you’re looking so pale? No, I have to check out your wounds,” she said, undoing the buttons on his shirt.
The moment she said that, he knew that he couldn’t stop her, so he allowed her to do as she wished. Soon, she undid more than half of his buttons to check his injury. However, when she opened up his shirt and saw the wound, she couldn’t help but gasp in shock.
The bandages around his shoulders were oozing with blood, and once she went closer, she could smell the scent of blood emanating from the injury. If anything, it looked dire and far from ‘fine’.
Tessa was stunned for a few seconds and tears blurred her vision as they rolled down her cheeks yet again.
An incredibly heartbroken Nicholas couldn’t stand to see her cry as it hurt him more to see her distraught and upset. “Don’t cry. I’m fine. This wound has already been attended to on the airplane.”
He lifted his hand and wiped away her tears with feather-like strokes. Despite that, the sight of a man so gentle made her tears flow even harder, and she was a little mad at the same time because she felt that he didn’t take care of himself at all.
