The Prince Who Cannot Fall In Love & The Missing Heiress - Chapter 277

“Did you … hear our conversation?” Friedrich asked in a choked voice.

He really regretted that he had talked about his feelings openly in the apartment like this. He should have been more careful now that Hannah was around. Oh… now how was he supposed to take back what he had said earlier?

However … his heart felt slightly relieved that Hannah heard his conversation with Charles. Maybe deep down, Friedrich actually wanted her to know what was in his heart.

He didn’t want to take this secret to the grave.

Maybe … deep down … he really wanted Hannah to know that he did love her.

Since when? He didn’t know … Friedrich didn’t know when did he start loving Hannah.

Hannah nodded slowly. “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to eavesdrop. Earlier, I just felt like I couldn’t sleep and wanted to drink water.”

Friedrich nodded. He waved his hand and gestured for Hannah to come closer. “Come here. I made quite a lot of chamomile tea.”

“I’ll get a cup for Hannah,” said Charles quickly. Without waiting for a response, he had jumped into the kitchen and returned shortly afterward with a blue cup and poured tea from the teapot for Hannah. “This is for you, Hannah.”

“Thank you, Charles,” Friedrich said on behalf of Hannah. He cleared his throat and asked his brother. “Can you sleep in my room tonight? I wanted to talk to Hannah here.”

“Of course,” said Charles. He took his laptop and teacup then went to his brother’s room. “Good night, Hannah.”

Hannah nodded while smiling slightly at the young man. Charles closed the door and immediately turned off the room lights. He felt both excited and moved because finally Friedrich and Hannah had a heart-to-heart talk, after all this time.

Maybe it’s time for them to express their respective feelings.

Meanwhile, in the living room, Hannah took a sip of her tea without saying anything. Her chest was pounding, wanting to know what Friedrich wanted to talk to her about.

She could guess that the man would finally be honest and share with her what was in his heart. Because after all, Hannah had heard what he said to Charles that Friedrich actually loved her.

“Hannah …” Friedrich raised his face and looked at the girl with a somber look. “Please forget what you heard earlier. Pretend you didn’t hear anything. I’m sorry for giving you hope and making you sad. I didn’t mean that.”

Hannah suddenly felt her throat choked. She lowered her cup and looked at Friedrich with rounded eyes. Tears streamed down her cheeks.

“Fred … Why did you say that? Do you hate me?” asked the girl hoarsely.

Friedrich took a deep breath, and his face looked very miserable. “On the contrary … Hannah, I don’t want to make you suffer. I am just a man whose days are numbered.

If you invest your feelings in me .. then, next year, you will only become very hurt. We better finish our trip as friends, and you can remember me as a good friend.

Later, you can find another man who is much better than me. A man who is healthy and can stay with you and grow old together. A man who will make you happy …”

Hannah put her cup on the table and inched closer to Friedrich. Her hand touched the man’s hand and squeezed it. “I don’t want another man. I just want to be with you. I want to be your family. I want to remember you as the man I love. I want to keep you in my heart, for the rest of my life, as the best man I’ve ever known.”

Friedrich stared at the hand Hannah was squeezing, then he looked at the girl’s face, which was now filled with tears. He tried to say something, but no sound came out of his mouth.

“Fred … we only have a little time. Why don’t we use it to enjoy each other’s company to the fullest? I want to live forever with you .. But even if I’m only given a year to live with you … I’ll choose to spend it with you, a thousand times. I will always choose you even if we only had a year together, rather than live forever but without you,” Hannah insisted. She really didn’t want to back down because she finally knew Friedrich’s true feelings for her.

She understood the man’s worries. She really appreciated that Friedrich didn’t want to make her suffer for tying her down into an impossible love relationship with a time limit. However, Hannah didn’t care about it all.

“I don’t want to remember you as a friend,” repeated the girl. She pursed her lips and looked at Friedrich closely. “You will break my heart if you pretend you never said what you said earlier.”

Friedrich was stunned and stared at Hannah for a long time. He really couldn’t bear to see the girl sad.

“Hannah …” Friedrich raised his hand and wiped the tears that rolled down Hannah’s cheeks. “Don’t cry. I can’t see stand seeing you cry…”

All this time, Hannah had been hiding her tears from Friedrich because she didn’t want to stress him. He was already overwhelmed by his own condition.

However … this time, Hannah couldn’t hold back her feelings anymore.

“I’m so, sorry, I can’t help it,” Hannah looked down and tried to hide her teary face.

“I don’t want to burden you. Fine .. I’ll do what you ask. I’ll forget about it. Thanks for the tea.”

Hannah took her teacup and hurriedly drank her tea in one go. She regretted insisting just now. It was better if she forgot everything she had heard.

Tomorrow morning when they woke up, everything would be back to normal.

She would think that this was just a dream.

“Good night,” Hannah put her cup back on the table and got ready to get up from the chair to return to her room.

“Hannah …”

Suddenly, Friedrich held Hannah’s right hand and didn’t let her go.. The girl was stunned when she realized that her hand was now in Friedrich’s grip.