Unfortunately, Maria had no way of knowing what she looked Like when she was sleeping better than Anthony did.

In spite of Maria's efforts, her eyelids kept twitching because she was afraid that Anthony would call her bluff.

However, Anthony's focus was somewhere else.

“I'm sleepy, Anthony." Maria's words echoed in his head repeatedly. This was the first time Maria had called him by his name instead of “Mr. Wilson" when they were alone.

“Maria.” Anthony Looked up at her.

“Yes? What's up?"

Maria peered deep into his eyes.

As a person who made mistakes, she knew the most important thing right now was to make Anthony happy.

Maria would stop pretending to be asleep as long as Anthony had something important to say.

“From now on, you will only call me by my name. Don't call me Mr. Wilson anymore," he said, sternly.

Maria was taken by surprise.

Her cheeks blushed red and she asked, “Why?”

“It's the only way to make our relationship seem real. That way no one will see through our secret,"

Anthony said slowly. These words seemed to be reasonable, but they were somehow completely unreasonable at the same time.

Maria could have easily refuted and argued against his reasoning.

But now, she was ‘guilty’ as well, so Anthony made the call.

Whatever he said, was right.

Ih, okay." Maria agreed softly without overthinking about the future. jood."" Anthony smiled with satisfaction. "Call me by my name again."

Eh?" Maria was stunned.

“Anthony?”