Addiction to Temptation: His Mischievous Sweetheart Captivates Him-Chapter 308: 5 Minutes

Natalie Vaughn had no idea if that sentence was recorded or not. She reached out to Zane Thorne, pushing him out.

"It’s not over yet. You go wait in another room for a bit."

Zane Thorne:...

"An entire hour and it’s still not over?"

Something was off in the man’s tone. Natalie furrowed her brows and looked up at him, noticing the intense desire still lingering in Zane’s eyes.

Soon, Natalie understood what Zane meant.

So, the kiss earlier wasn’t enough, and he’s still hung up on it now?

"You can’t wait even this little while?"

Zane slightly narrowed his eyes. She was the one who stirred things up, and he even let her stream on time, yet now she’s annoyed at him?

Natalie felt a pang in her heart from Zane’s gaze and quickly changed her approach.

"Hey, there was a little issue with the stream just now, so we’re running a bit late. I want some milk. Can you warm it up for me?"

Natalie knew her strengths very well. As she spoke, she wrapped Zane’s arm with her hands, wrinkling her nose and pouting, rhythmically shaking his arm.

Zane Thorne:....

The man looked down at the girl’s coquettish manner, sighing inwardly. This little girl really knew how to handle him completely.

But he didn’t want to show it too obviously and still wanted to maintain his stance.

"Five minutes."

Five more minutes again.

Hearing that, Natalie quickly shot a glare at Zane but changed her expression in an instant, obediently saluting him.

"Got it!"

Having said that, she immediately went to find the painting she made for Zane.

Watching her hurriedly leaving, Zane shook his head helplessly yet lovingly. Before heading downstairs, he glanced inside the room but eventually didn’t go in.

When Natalie returned with the painting and sat down, the chat was buzzing with comments.

"Missy, I’ll warm the milk for you right now. Where are you? Give me an address, and I’ll deliver it right away!"

"...??????"

Natalie glanced back at the room door.

Could the phone’s microphone really be this good? They could hear talking at the doorway?

Under the comment about warming the milk, more were already pouring in.

"Brother-in-law’s voice is so sexy!"

"Brother-in-law is so domineering!"

"Wuwuwu! I wish I could swap places with brother-in-law! Missy’s so, so, so adorable when she acts coy!"

"..."

Watching the comments, Natalie felt a bit embarrassed, her ears turning red.

Ahem, it’s not great having so many people... seeing, no—hearing her act coy. It felt a bit awkward.

After all, her image was supposed to be that of a beautiful, kind, strong, and work-loving woman! Acting coy just now was somewhat damaging to her image!

Natalie cleared her throat.

"If you keep flooding the comments like this, I won’t show you the painting, okay? Are you my fans or his?"

Natalie intended to regain control with just a sentence but didn’t expect that mentioning Zane, referring to him as ’him,’ would make the fans even more excited.

Natalie helplessly raised her hand to her forehead, pretending to set the painting aside.

Might as well just go with the flow.

"You heard it, five minutes, and I’ll have to log off. Are you sure you want to keep dawdling?"

As expected, this small ’threat’ momentarily silenced the fans.

Alright, the stream would leave Missy alone for now, and they’d switch to Weibo later after the stream ended.

Seeing the fans quiet down a bit, Natalie slightly elevated her posture, taking out the painting only with the last minute remaining.

The portrayal of Natalie in Zane’s painting was beautiful.

It was quite different from how she appeared in public.

The Natalie in Zane’s painting had a gentle warmth, a childlike quality, as if the filter of Missy was removed. How to say it? She seemed more genuinely beautiful.

Or perhaps it was Zane’s love that made people feel the beauty of love and marriage when looking at this painting.

"So beautiful!"

"Brother-in-law’s painting skills are amazing!"

"The place looks so beautiful!"

"Wuwuwu! Reinstated my belief in love!"

"Feeling the strongest urge ever to be in a relationship!"

"Aaaaah, after seeing brother-in-law’s painting, I want to see Missy’s painting of brother-in-law even more! Can I dream about it?"

"Wuwuwu, Missy really is my favorite female celebrity this year!"

"..."

In the last moments, Natalie for the first time felt reluctant.

Feelings are most precious when mutual.

Natalie now understood why Zoe Chandler said she was being irresponsible to fans by not maintaining her Weibo.

And at this moment, Natalie made a decision in her heart.

The previous video account had gone long without updates; she could continue running it now so fans had something to look forward to.

After the stream ended, Natalie surprisingly felt a bit melancholic.

She was actually quite soft-hearted. If others treated her sincerely, she wouldn’t ignore it.

Zane Thorne came right on time, knocking on the door before entering, holding a warmed glass of milk.

Seeing the stream had ended, he approached, wanting to say a few words, but noticed her expression wasn’t quite right.

Zane set the milk on the table and sat next to her, effortlessly pulling Natalie onto his lap, cradling her waist with one arm and gently lifting her chin with the other.

"What’s wrong? Did something happen to make you upset?"

Natalie adjusted her emotions quickly, and with Zane asking like this, she wasn’t sure what to say.

Saying she suddenly had an emotional epiphany and felt bad for the fans seemed a bit unjust?

So Natalie shook her head.

Zane didn’t press Natalie further, instead offering her the milk to drink up, soothing her until she relaxed, then gently bounced his leg while patting her back like soothing a child.

He didn’t bring up the stream, instead saying.

"It’s hard to come out and have fun for two days, being in a bad mood is such a waste."

Saying it like that truly stopped Natalie from brooding.

"Do you remember I had an account before?"

Zane furrowed his brows slightly, recalling.

That account was where Natalie always posted videos about karate.

"Yeah, I remember. Why?"

Natalie mindlessly played with the fabric of Zane’s shirt.

"I’ve stopped updating for a few months while studying, but I want to restart. What do you think?"

Zane glanced at Natalie’s actions.

This was also something he knew; whenever Natalie needed something from him, she’d do it unconsciously, though she wasn’t aware herself.

"Sure, if you want to, go ahead. Just manage your time well, don’t wear yourself out. You haven’t been training as diligently lately, so your physical condition isn’t as good as it used to be."

Natalie instinctively refuted. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

"No way."

She frowned at Zane, seeing the amusement in his eyes.

"..."

Natalie knew Zane too well, realizing from his look that he was thinking about her whining that morning.

Could you blame her?

He himself trained every day, while she studied and stayed up late designing. It’s normal her stamina couldn’t keep up, right?

Besides!

He’s the one always incessantly greedy, isn’t he?!

Natalie glared at Zane fiercely, pinching his waist.

"Can you not always think about those things?"