Addiction to Temptation: His Mischievous Sweetheart Captivates Him-Chapter 183: Baby, Nothing Will Happen to Me
Natalie Vaughn suddenly awoke in the middle of the night. She had a very bad dream, dreaming about Zane Thorne from a few years ago, dreaming of him speeding on the racetrack, dreaming of his car suddenly malfunctioning, dreaming of him crashing into the mountain.
She hurriedly ran over, seeing Zane Thorne in the driver’s seat already unconscious, lying in a pool of blood. She tried her best to pry open the deformed car door, but couldn’t move it at all.
Bang—
The deformed car suddenly exploded, and she watched helplessly as Zane Thorne lay unconscious on the steering wheel, engulfed in flames, while she couldn’t do anything.
Natalie Vaughn suddenly sat up, her back drenched in cold sweat, her eyes bewildered and panicked as the scenes of the dream played repeatedly before her.
Breathing heavily, she urgently and frantically searched for her phone. It wasn’t on the bedside table. She got out of bed barefoot, only to find her legs had gone weak, causing her to fall to the floor.
She didn’t know when she had thrown her phone onto the window seat, and struggled to get up, taking two steps as one, staggeringly running to the window, picking up her phone to video call Zane Thorne.
Zane Thorne was lost in looking at a photo of Natalie Vaughn when he suddenly received her video call, feeling a bit dazed, thinking it was a hallucination from missing Natalie Vaughn too much while he was sick these past few days.
But the ringtone was so close, so clear, so real.
Zane Thorne answered the video call, greeted by Natalie Vaughn’s disheveled hair and reddened eyes.
He became a bit flustered.
"What’s wrong, baby?"
Natalie Vaughn cried, calling his name.
"Zane Thorne."
His heart contracted, aching intensely.
"Mm, I’m here, baby, what’s wrong?"
Natalie Vaughn continued to cry, continuously calling Zane Thorne’s name, tears flowing down her cheeks.
"Zane Thorne, Zane Thorne, Zane Thorne..."
As she kept calling, she suddenly cried out loud, sobbing so hard she couldn’t catch her breath. The scenes from the dream were too vivid — Zane Thorne speeding so recklessly and boldly, so adeptly and charmingly, so tangibly real on the racetrack.
Then, she watched as such a lively Zane Thorne crashed into the mountain, fell into a pool of blood, swallowed by fire.
It felt too real, so real it didn’t seem like a dream.
Zane Thorne watched Natalie Vaughn merely calling his name and crying non-stop, he got up, completely unsure of what was happening.
All he could do was respond to her repeatedly.
"Mm, I’m here, baby, I’m here, I’m here."
Natalie Vaughn rarely cried, never in front of Zane Thorne, except when she acted cute or in bed, Zane Thorne had never seen her tears.
His heart ached greatly hearing her cry, he paced around the room repeatedly, soothing her with soft words. 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶
Yet Natalie Vaughn’s tears flowed like broken pearls, unable to stop.
Zane Thorne had no other solution, he could only kiss her eyes through the screen, kiss the places where her tears had fallen.
"Baby, don’t cry, I’m here, I’m here, what’s wrong? Hmm? Don’t cry anymore, it hurts me."
"..."
After who knows how long of comforting her, until Natalie Vaughn cried herself awake, until she heard Zane Thorne’s voice, finally easing out of the scene in her dream.
Natalie Vaughn raised her hand to wipe her eyes, recognizing Zane Thorne safe and intact on the screen, her held heart finally at ease.
"What are you doing?"
Her voice was hoarse from crying, still carrying a sob.
Zane Thorne frowned with concern.
"I was looking at you."
Natalie Vaughn sniffled.
"Looking how?"
"Looking at the photos I took of you."
Also, the ones from Quentin Donovan of her growing up.
Natalie Vaughn couldn’t quite comprehend, only remembered Zane Thorne indeed had taken photos of her.
"Talk more."
"Okay, what do you want to hear?"
"Anything, just talk quickly."
Right now she desperately wanted to hear Zane Thorne’s voice, to dispel that terrifying yet realistic dream. She wanted Zane Thorne to be alive and well.
Zane Thorne randomly picked up a book from the shelf and began reading to her. Out of concern for Natalie Vaughn, he completely forgot what he was reading, while Natalie Vaughn was still anxious, failing to catch the content.
She just wanted to hear Zane Thorne’s voice, confirming he was alive and well.
A dream, just a dream.
Zane Thorne was so incredible, how could he have an accident? He wouldn’t, never.
Once Natalie Vaughn’s emotions stabilized, Zane Thorne put the book down, softly asked her.
"What’s wrong, baby?"
Natalie Vaughn instinctively held her breath, recalled Zane Thorne unconscious at the steering wheel, shook her head violently, opened her mouth, unable to speak, finally managing a sentence.
"I dreamt of you."
Zane Thorne’s expression paused, then slowly asked.
"A nightmare?"
Natalie Vaughn’s voice shook again.
"Mm."
Zane Thorne didn’t ask further. No wonder, no wonder she would call him, no wonder she kept calling his name, no wonder she cried endlessly.
"Baby, see, I’m fine, right here."
Natalie Vaughn stared tightly at Zane Thorne, unwilling to blink.
"Just now I dreamt you had an accident."
Zane Thorne’s expression froze, recalling what happened on the rooftop earlier, his face looking a bit unpleasant. Angry at his momentary selfishness.
If it wasn’t for Gideon Sheffield calling out Natalie Vaughn’s name at the last moment, he truly wouldn’t fear death.
Is that why Natalie Vaughn would have a nightmare?
He leaned closer to the screen, kissed Natalie Vaughn’s forehead.
"Baby, I won’t have an accident."
Natalie Vaughn wrinkled her nose, responding softly.
She actually couldn’t understand why she suddenly had such a nightmare, was it because of investigating Gideon Sheffield recently, causing the accident from five years ago to manifest in her dream onto Zane Thorne?
Unable to sleep again, Zane Thorne accompanied her with a call, reading to her until dawn, until Natalie Vaughn got up to prepare for filming.
After hanging up, Zane Thorne was still uneasy, calling Genevieve Joyce.
He had been in Altara lately, unable to focus much on Natalie Vaughn, unaware of her recent happenings.
Upon learning Natalie Vaughn saved Vera Underwood, Zane Thorne remained silent for a long time.
Some things seem destined by fate. How Vera Underwood left Astra City and came to Veridia, how Natalie Vaughn’s filming was in Veridia, how Natalie Vaughn went to the bar where Vera Underwood was, how she met Vera Underwood by chance.
He didn’t know how Natalie Vaughn grew suspicious of Vera Underwood, started investigating Vera Underwood. He only knew that about what happened five years ago, Natalie Vaughn was getting closer step by step.
He had considered telling her about the past personally, yet his heart always harbored a bit of worry.
He didn’t even know what exactly he was worried about, knowing Natalie Vaughn’s nature, if she learned the truth, she would surely embrace him, saying it wasn’t his fault.
But just... wanted to resolve it himself.
Then, wholeheartedly, love her well.
