Chapter 69 She Looks More Adorable When She Cries
That night, in the living room, Luke did his most impetuous round so far.
The military uniform was on the table, and it was crumpled from the inside to the outside. Natalie didn't know what happened to the Estain dress that she was wearing last night. The last thing that she remembered was she squeezed the military uniform behind her tightly, and pinched a thick layer of pleats on it.
She was dazzled by the chandelier...She was in a half-awakened state to whatever happened next.
When she woke up, it was already the next morning.
As soon as Natalie opened her eyes, she saw Luke's face. His face's outline was clear and its contour was sharp. She wasn't sure if it was due to the wild night, his thin lips were in light-red color and they looked nice.
It was rare that he was still sleeping while she was awake.
Luke put one of his arms across Natalie's waist. She was leaning on his other arm and looking at him. She was fascinated by him.
Involuntarily, Natalie blushed slightly when she thought of how frivolous he was last night, and she buried her face into the blanket.
How could he know so many ways to drive her crazy? The military uniform and her Estain dress were being taken off by him and thrown on the ground...She wondered if those clothes were being picked up.
As soon as Natalie moved in Luke's arm, he was awake. He lowered his head and kissed her lips gently despite his eyes being closed.
"Are you awake?" His voice was hoarse since he had just woken up.
"Yes..." Natalie leaned on him. Her head was touching his heart and all she could smell was his breath.
They were being so wild before they fell asleep. Natalie didn't know what was the time and worried she might be running late. She asked softly, "What time is it?"
"Don't worry. I set an alarm." Luke put his palm on her head and stroked her long hair.
Natalie was relieved when she heard that.
Suddenly, he let out a laugh.
Natalie was confused. She lifted her head in his arms. When she did that, her lips touched his chin. She asked, "Why are you laughing?"
"There was something I forgot to tell you last night." Luke smiled and said slowly, "I got carried away last night."
Natalie was speechless.
She thought to herself, "Why can't he just say things straight without adding the later part of the sentence?"
Natalie stretched out to poke his waist, and said in a low voice, "Say it properly."
"Oh." He smiled and lowered his chin to rub the tip of her nose. "Robert thinks that those photos are nice. He would like to keep two of them as advertisement for his studio. He would like me to ask you if you will agree to it."
Natalie thought, "I see."
Robert was such a nice person. He spent the whole afternoon taking their pictures for nothing. He was also a friend of Luke.  Of course, it didn't matter if he wanted two photos.
Natalie thought for a while and responded, "Well, that's fine...As long as you are fine with it too."
"Why would I have a problem with it?"
"Many girls will be unhappy when they see you and me take those couple photos," Natalie closed her eyes and joked.
Luke laughed and said, "Let them be. I don't care about them. I already had you with me, my dear."
When he was saying that, his lips got closer and rubbed on her ear.
Natalie was ticklish. She giggled, asked him to stop, and tried to dodge but to no avail. She got no choice but hugged his waist coquettishly and told him that she needed to sleep for a while more.
"Go ahead." He lowered his head as well as his voice and buried himself into the crevice of her neck.
That was what Natalie told him but she couldn't fall asleep again.
When the alarm rang, Natalie was too sleepy to open her eyes. She was complaining about Luke by kicking and punching him in the blanket.
Her forces were too soft for Luke. He was stroking her head and back to coax her.
Then, Natalie walked to the cloakroom to change her clothes. She saw her Estain dress and the military uniform hanging on the clothes rack.
She was still wearing it when she was on the table last night...
Natalie gained her senses in a swift and took her Estain dress from the clothes rack.
Luke went to the cloakroom after Natalie. He saw that she was holding the Estain dress and she was looking at it. He smiled, walked over, and hugged her from her back. He put his chin on her hair and said, "It took me a hard time to put it up there. Are you just going to take it back like that?"
Natalie thought to herself, "How dare you have the nerve to ask?"
Natalie scolded, "Aren't you supposed to get it washed?"
"Isn't it nice?" Luke slowed down his voice and lowered his head to her ear. He smiled and said, "It's all your smell."
As soon as he finished his words, Natalie got irritated. She pushed her elbow to the back and hit him hard on his waist.
Luke hissed and arched his body. His laugh became a little hoarse. "How could you be so cruel? Can't you be gentle with me?"
He sounded to be in pain.
Natalie felt bad for hitting him so hard and wanted to check him out. The moment she turned around, she saw that he was smirking.
It was obvious that he was pretending.
However, she was being fooled.
Natalie frowned and stared at him. She looked angry.
"I'm really in pain." Luke knew her thought and continued to pretend to be pitiful. He sighed and said, "Nata, aren't you feeling bad for me?"
Natalie thought to herself, "You are so naughty. How could you still expect that I will feel bad for you..." However, she acted differently.
She pursed her lips and was about to ask him where it hurt.
Luke's warm breath already touched her auricle. He finished up the second half of his sentence slowly, "Did I not work hard enough last night?"
All that came to her mind were those indescribable pictures when she heard that.
Natalie blushed instantly.
Luke looked playful and smiled.
Natalie was pretty sure that Luke's biggest interest was to make her blush with embarrassment.
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It was late when the outpatient consultation ended for the morning session. Therefore, Natalie didn't make any plan with Luke. She just reminded him to take his lunch. Then, she had lunch with her colleagues in the hospital and returned to her office.
When she was about to take a nap, Luke sent her a picture of his lunch to show her that he was having his lunch.
At the desk, Natalie propped her cheeks with one of her hands. When she remembered how naughty he was in the morning, she purposely replied to him with an "OK".
Then, Luke responded, "Well..."
He was pretending to be pitiful again to gain her sympathy. Natalie snorted and wasn't being fooled again. She replied, "?"
Luke responded, "It has been 4 hours and 12 minutes since I last saw you."
Natalie continued to act cool and said, "So?"
Luke replied, "Your boyfriend has missed you so much."
Natalie tried to purse her lips but she failed. She smiled and said, "Well, you have to miss her for another 5 hours then."
On the other end, Luke seemed to be smiling too. He said, "How cruel are you? How do you not miss me at all?"
Natalie was only tough in her speech but soft in her heart. She said, "Well, I do miss you too. Is it okay now?"
At first, he replied decently. The next second, he became playful again and said, "Which part of me that you miss?"
As usual, Natalie didn't know what to say. She blushed and sent him a sticker decisively, which indicated "the chat was over".
After exiting the chatbox with Luke, Natalie noted that the chat group was named " The Temptation of Blind Dates".
Mia Brown, who was cautious and panic-stricken when she first joined, had already become very comfortable in the group.
They were playing the game, situation puzzle. The question was to guess why did Johnny kill all his friends when they were singing the birthday song for him.
They were having a lot of fun and there were a lot of jokes.
Seeing the way that Mia socialized with others in the group, Natalie couldn't help but laugh badly. It seemed like Mia would only become buddies with those people.
After done with that round of situation puzzles, Mia said, "I need to get something done in another room. You all carry on."
Mark said, "Wow, you seem to be someone important! What kind of room are you going to? Please watch my back in the future!" A smiling picture was attached.
Mia replied, "..."
Mia continued, "The room that I am referring to is the washroom."
Mark responded with a picture where someone was stunned.
Then, there was a lot of laughing and smiling phrases spamming the screen.
Duke Greig, who was the most nosy person said, "Oh, my God! Have you all seen the couple photos of Luke and Natalie?"
"When did the two of them take couple's photos?"
"Luke and Natalie's...Do I have to pay to see them?" Attached with a nose bleeding picture.
"Where is it? Where is it?"
......
Duke Greig responded, "The Robert Studio official Facebook page just posted it. Luke is so handsome and Natalie is gorgeous!"
All of them were browsing Facebook after hearing that.
Natalie was peeking at their conversation in front of her screen. When their topic was about her, she was caught off guard and stunned for a while. Then, she logged in to her Facebook account.
There was no need to search for Robert Studio Facebook page, as soon as they entered "Natalie" in the search box, it showed as the trending topic.
"Luke in military uniform of the 1920s style."
"The Luke couple's photo album."
"Robert Studio."
Robert Studio captioned, "Love that is unable to describe with words, photographed by Robert."
There were two photos uploaded on Facebook.
One of them emphasized elegancy. It was Luke holding Natalie's shoulder with one of his hands while another hand was in the pocket of his military pants. Natalie was holding a snow-white cat in her arms, where his military coat covered half of her body.
It was a snapshot them walking down the wooden stairs together. They were smiling and looked happy with each other.
The other one was with the abstinence theme. The lighting was hazy which induced a strong sense of desire. There was a maroon retro couch carved from teak. Luke was biting a cigar with his lips while Natalie was sitting on his thighs. They were looking in each other's eyes, and he was holding her waist.
The shooting angle of that photo was very interesting. The sense of softness and confidence between the two of them collided which attracted infinite reveries.
As expected, the comment section went into a frenzy.
"Oh, my God! Luke and Natalie are the best!"
"That's amazing! You can always trust Robert's work!"
"Luke, you got me! From now onwards, all the male protagonists in the novels will be your face!"
"Natalie was gorgeous in the Estain dress! Look at her body figure! It's driving me crazy!"
"Let me make myself clear. I want to see their fan art in 3 minutes! It will be about the young general and the daughter of an eminent family who gets married before they fall in love! Be smart and write it now! Otherwise, I will kneel and beg you to do so!"
"I am an old-school. I would like to see a domineering general seize others by force! Sir, please fulfill my last wish."
......
That was the first time Natalie saw those photos. During the shooting, she just followed the instructions of Robert from the beginning to the end. She didn't know what kind of expression she was having. She also didn't know what was she doing. She even worried about her poor performance in front of the camera might affect the photos. However, those photos surprised her.
She was amazed. They looked surprisingly good.
Natalie couldn't help but thought that in the future, she would like Robert to take their wedding photos as well... After a short while, she recovered her senses and patted her head.
That was a long way to go...
Luke and Natalie took more than those two photos on that day. Even though their photos were being prioritized, it still took time to refine those photos since there were a lot of photos.
Natalie couldn't help but stare at those photos for a while. After that, she downloaded those photos and saved them.
Suddenly, a nurse came to her office and looked anxiously. "Dr. Moore, Mr. Lever might need your help. Dr. Samuel wasn't here today, please come with me."
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At Bennington group's headquarters, Luke was looking at those two photos in his office. It was given by Robert to him privately.
Robert wasn't hesitant to give his compliment. He told Luke that he was lucky, as his girlfriend was the most beautiful girl Robert had ever photographed with a smile.
Luke crossed his leg while he was sitting and looking at his phone. He leaned to the chair lazily and smiled inadvertently.
He thought to himself, "She looks more adorable when she cries."
After Harry recovered from his illness, he came back to the company to preside over the overall situation. He held an internal meeting in the afternoon.
The meeting ended in two hours.
When Harry was walking out of the conference room, he slowed down deliberately and waited for the man who looked relaxed behind him to catch up. Harry looked back and said, "So, tell me. Who is that girl on the Internet?"
Luke raised his eyebrows and he was surprised for a while.
It was very strange that his father, who was as cold as stone cared about his personal life for the very first time.
Luke was silent for a while and held his breath slightly.
"Your daughter-in-law," Luke said. It was with a sense of laziness and he was smiling, but his tone was serious, "Isn't she pretty?"
Harry looked at him while he said that. After a while, Harry turned his sight away without saying anything and he left.
"She seems good," Harry said indifferently.
Luke was startled and paused for a while.
After he thought for a while, he smiled.