Sean was driving back, and as luck would have it, he ended up right behind Natalie''s car again.


    After about twenty minutes, Natalie''s car pulled into the parking lot of a mall.


    Sebastian saw it and quickly said, "Stop the car."


    Sean immediately pulled over.


    Sebastian threw open the door, got out, and followed Natalie and Marshall inside.


    Pushing through the heavy stic door ps, he found himself in a room lined with w machines on one side and massage chairs on the other.


    Natalie pointed at one of the machines. "Marshall, I want to try and win a plushie. That little pink bunny is so cute."


    Marshall smiled. "Natalie, if you like bunnies, I can just buy you one. The quality of these things is terrible, and they shed. I''ve noticed you seem to have some allergies."


    Natalie looked at him, surprised. "You''ve paid that much attention? It''s true, fuzzy things tend to make my nose itch, but it''s not that serious."


    "Not serious? Thest time I saw you at the mall, you kept rubbing your nose when you walked past the stuffed animal aisle. I could tell you were ufortable.”


    Natalie was touched but still really wanted to y the game. "It''s no big deal. Let''s just try a few times. It doesn''t matter if we don''t win, it''s about having fun."


    "Haha... alright.” Marshall happily paid with his phone, getting a bunch of tokens for Natalie.


    "Here, you try. If you can''t get it, I''ll help you. I''m an expert at this."


    Natalie inserted a token and started ying, but it clearly wasn''t her strong suit. She failed five times in a row.


    Marshall was getting anxious watching her. "Natalie, let me show you how it''s done. Watch the master at work."


    Marshall grinned, dropped in a token, and gripped the joystick. The first attempt failed. The second one did, too.


    Natalie gave him a skeptical look.


    "Hey! Marshall, didn''t you say you were an expert at this?"


    Marshall reached out and gently tapped her pouting lips, his tone indulgent. "You silly girl. You''re lucky if you can win even one out of five times. Don''t you know these things are just a scam?"


    Natalie paused for a moment. The warmth in Marshall''s eyes made her smile involuntarily.


    Natalie didn''t notice the adoration in his eyes; her entire focus was on the little pink bunny, which was indeed adorable.


    But Sebastian saw it. Men


    understand men, and Marshall had


    wormed his way into every corner of


    Natalie'' suites, The look in his


    eye


    wasn''t just friendly-he was genuinely falling for her.


    A surge of jealous rage spread through Sebastian''s chest.


    Natalie was his. No one was allowed to take her away.


    Marshall finally seeded. Natalie watched excitedly as the bunny was lifted, her eyes tracking it as it


    moved toward the prize chute. But just as it was about to drop,


    someone bu


    into Marshall''s


    arm, and the bunny fell back into the


    pile.


    "Who bumped me?" Marshall spun around and found himself face-to-face with Sebastian.


    He was startled by the man''s icy re.


    "Whoa, you scared the life out of me. Sebastian, what are you doing here?"


    Natalie was also taken aback. The two of them had been so absorbed in the game they hadn''t noticed Sebastian approach.


    Sebastian didn''t say a word. He pushed Marshall aside and stood in front of Natalie.


    Then he wrapped his arms around her.


    She was enveloped in his familiar, clean scent, a fragrance that was intoxicating.


    Natalie waspletely bewildered. She looked up at Sebastian, her voice faltering. "Mr. Griffith, what... what are you doing?"