Chapter 314
After Katniss came out, she went straight back to her room to continue sleeping. I walked into the bathroom, sat on the toilet and smoked, gradually calming my emotions, but feeling very strange.
Why do I always feel so passive tonight? Could it be that I am too impatient? I have never encountered this kind of situation before. Is everything just a coincidence? Why does it always feel strange?
Back in the bedroom, I lay on the bed unable to calm down for a long time. Perhaps I can only find answers by going back to the company tomorrow.
I don't know when I fell asleep. When I woke up, Katniss had already prepared breakfast.
I calmly ate breakfast, and as I was about to leave, Katniss, as usual, helped me with my pants and tie, everything was as usual.
On the way to the company, my doubts deepened. I always feel that Katniss is different now. The current Katniss seems more mature and less weak than before, without the fear and flattery she used to have towards me. Instead, she has truly returned to a state of equality with me.
Isn't this the kind of life I want? But why does Katniss always have a strange look in her eyes? I can sense it, but I can't understand what it means.
Arriving at the company, I quickly got into work mode. During the rare break at noon, I took out the encrypted device from my pocket. It was not easy to bring this encrypted device out, I was afraid of Katniss finding out.
While the office was empty, I inserted the encrypted device into the computer and opened the monitoring interface that I hadn't opened for a long time.
At that moment, Katniss was doing housework at home, the computer at home was on, and Katniss spent almost all her time on the internet every day, browsing shopping websites, reading news, collecting materials, busy and happy. But I didn't care about these, after all, Katniss is still in the recovery stage, not working, using the internet to pass the time is also fine.
Watching the live monitoring at home, I hesitated. How should I watch the monitoring? Should I start from the beginning or go backwards? At that moment, what I cared most about was why Katniss didn't come to pick me up that day, and didn't call me. I always feel that Katniss's explanation to me was a bit insincere, and Katniss's expression that day was also not very normal. Also, what was that strange smell coming from Nathan's room last night?
I decided to start watching from the morning.
I adjusted the video time to yesterday morning. The day before yesterday, I had already told Katniss the time of my flight takeoff and landing. It takes more than 10 hours to fly from Lumaria to Novaria, the plane takes off in the early morning and arrives in Novaria around noon.
When Katniss woke up in the morning, she seemed a bit uninterested. After checking the time, she hesitated and sat on the sofa with her head down.
I expected that after Katniss knew I was coming home that day, she would be very excited. But at this moment, Katniss didn't show much excitement at all, instead, she seemed a bit indifferent.
Why is she hesitating on the sofa now? Logically, Katniss should be playing on the computer to pass the time at this time.
Katniss sat on the sofa, occasionally furrowing her brows, occasionally looking conflicted, silently sitting on the sofa for more than two hours without moving.
"Dad, are you coming back today?"
After hesitating for a while on the sofa, Katniss took out her phone and called Nathan. When I heard Katniss calling Nathan, my heart suddenly tightened. Could my speculation be true? Has my worst fear finally come true?
"You'll know when you come back."
I don't know what Nathan said on the other end, maybe asking why he should come back. After Katniss said this, the call between them ended. After hanging up the phone, Katniss glanced at the time on the wall, it was around ten o'clock in the morning, less than four hours before I arrived home.
After calling Nathan, Katniss started preparing lunch. Different from what I had imagined, Katniss's lunch was quite ordinary, just a simple home-cooked meal.
After Katniss finished preparing lunch, it was time for lunch, about three hours before I returned home.
At that time, Nathan arrived. Nathan opened the door and walked into the house, and at that moment Katniss came out of the kitchen with the food.
"Why are you so late? Let's wash up and eat."
Seeing Nathan, Katniss smiled sweetly.
"Just finished something."
After taking off his shoes, Nathan walked into the bathroom to wash his hands.
After washing his hands, he came to the dining table. Nathan sat at the table looking quite restrained, not like the usual times when he was alone with Katniss.
"Where's Kevin? Hasn't he come back from Lumaria yet? When is he coming back?"
Nathan found a topic, asking while quickly scanning the house with his eyes.
"He still needs a few more days to come back."
Katniss sat at the table, hearing Nathan's words, hesitated for a moment before replying, but her response left me dumbfounded.
What! I still need a few more days to come back? Didn't I just tell her last night that I would be home today? Did Katniss forget? If she didn't forget, then Katniss is deliberately deceiving Nathan, why would she deceive Nathan? Despite my increasingly sharp mind, I was puzzled at this moment, unable to understand her thoughts.
After hearing Katniss's words, Nathan secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but there was no longer that expectation in his eyes, because he knew that his sexual relationship with Katniss was completely over. So what difference does it make whether I come back or not? The two of them began to eat quietly, Nathan seemed very well-behaved, but still a bit nervous.
Seeing the expressions of the two of them, I couldn't help but relax a bit. Based on my experience, at least in the past half month, the two of them had not had a sexual relationship at all. If they had, they would have appeared much closer, but at this moment, they maintained the proper distance and boundaries of a father-in-law and daughter-in-law.
While eating, both of them seemed emotionally complex, after all, although the situation was different from before, memories of the past kept replaying in their minds.
While eating with their heads down, Nathan would occasionally sneak a glance at Katniss. And while Nathan was sneaking glances at Katniss, Katniss was also looking at him. Nathan quickly turned his head back, looking a bit nervous, while Katniss seemed quite calm.
The meal ended in a quiet atmosphere. After lunch, Katniss started tidying up the room, while Nathan sat on the sofa, looking a bit restless. He would occasionally glance at Katniss, often check the time, and he tried to speak several times but stopped himself.
While Katniss was cleaning up in the kitchen, she would occasionally look at Nathan in the living room. Every time their eyes met, Nathan's gaze would dodge, while Katniss seemed very calm. This scene had happened countless times before, it felt familiar.
Katniss seemed heavy-hearted at that moment. After finishing cleaning up, Katniss walked into the living room. She looked at the clock on the wall, there were still two hours before I landed.
"Katniss, did you call me back for something? Is something broken in the house?"
At that moment, Nathan couldn't stand the quiet atmosphere anymore and finally asked, although he knew that everything was impossible, there was still a hint of expectation in Nathan's eyes. Even if nothing happened, at least he still held a place in Katniss's heart.
"Yeah! The water heater in the bathroom at home is a bit broken."
After looking at the time, Katniss glanced at Nathan. Her expression seemed very indifferent.
"Really? I'll go take a look."
After hearing Katniss's words, Nathan didn't say anything else, but there was a hint of strangeness in his expression.
After all, if the water heater is broken, you can call the manufacturer for repairs, why ask him to come? And he might not even be able to fix it.
"I'll give it a try first, if it doesn't work, we'll have to call the manufacturer for repairs."
After saying that, Nathan got up and walked towards the bathroom.
"Okay, even if we call the manufacturer for repairs, Dad, you have to be here, after all, I'm alone at home and a little scared."
When Katniss said this, she unexpectedly changed her usual demeanor, no longer the previous indifference and restraint, she actually smiled and talked to Nathan, and this smile made Nathan, who had walked to the bathroom door, look a bit pleasantly surprised.
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