She coughed lightly and quickly pushed Kelvin away. “Let go of me, our children are watching us.”
Kelvin, frustrated and grinding his teeth, tightened his arms around her slender waist underwater. “I won’t let go, it’s so annoying! When we return home, I’ll just give them to Omari to raise. He’s happy to do it anyway.”
Then he could have a peaceful life with Cheyenne.
Cheyenne was used to Kelvin saying this every time because he was just joking.
In fact, it was unbearable for him not to see Cierra for even a day.
“Okay.”
She was about to throw the ball at their child when she caught sight of an unusual shadow in the water from the corner of her eye.
The long red shadow moved flexibly in the water like a graceful line and created ripples that spread outwards in circles.
Cheyenne’s pupils suddenly contracted as she swallowed nervously while staring at that snake intently.
She didn’t dare make any noise, afraid it might scare both children since danger slowly approached Oliver and Cierra who were urging her to hit the ball.
“Okay, Mommy needs some time. I can’t play ball. Don’t move yet; wait a minute!”
Hearing this, Cierra smiled triumphantly. “Mommy is so silly; even I can play ball.”
Kelvin closest to Cheyenne noticed something strange about her. “Cheyenne?”
“Hush! Don’t speak,” she whispered back softly.
Following where she looked at, a snake swam towards Cierra along with water flow from pool edge.
His heart rose up into his throat as his eyes became sharp instantly instead of being mischievous before.
“Don’t move all of you; let me handle it!”
Kelvin immediately picked up his bathrobe on shore and approached that snake gently.
“Kelvin!”
He heard Cheyenne’s worried whisper behind him.
The man curled his lips, turned back, reassuringly looking at her, firmly said, “Cheyenne, I am our child’s father but also your husband – trust me – I will protect you three.”
“All right then be careful,” replied Cheyenne calmly closing eyes while lifting up balloon purposely making loud sound. “Look over here! The ball is coming!”
In that moment when she threw up balloon, both children instinctively looked up into mid-air where they saw nothing but balloon floating there without knowing what had happened underwater between their parents and snake nearby them.
The rising balloon touched the cherry blossom, causing the branches to shake and a flurry of petals to fall like a romantic snowfall. At the same time, Kelvin seized his chance and took several large steps towards where the snake was located. With one leap, he wrapped the snake in his towel.
Clang!
Splash!
His weight caused him to jump high into the air, splashing water everywhere as droplets fell from above. Kelvin got soaked along with two nearby children.
Cierra looked puzzled as she watched her dad suddenly fall next to her. Oliver noticed a small section of snake tail peeking out from under Kelvin’s robe and his face turned pale. However, he was still an older brother who never forgot his duty to protect his sister. He quickly led Cierra away.
“Cierra, let’s go buy some snacks.”
“But I still want to play with Mommy.”
“Don’t you want strawberry ice cream? Do you want two cones?”
Between food and playing, Cierra chose ice cream without hesitation while apologizing to her mom. “Mommy, I’ll come back later and play with you.”
Cheyenne held onto her balloon tightly due to nervousness which caused it deform slightly in her hand.
“Okay kids hurry up! Oliver keep an eye on your sister so she doesn’t run around.”
There is a snake here but Cheyenne didn’t dare say anything about it.
Oliver nodded quickly before leading Cierra away from danger. After they left, Kelvin brought both towel and snake ashore before picking up stones from the ground and smashing them down hard on top of it again and again until it stopped moving completely.
Cheyenne hadn’t seen this side of him for a long time; she couldn’t bear looking at him anymore because he was too fierce now that he had killed something once more after such a long time without doing so already – especially since there were ants attracted by bloodstains on those rocks soon after they were thrown aside by him following their use against that serpent earlier on today…
Kelvin slowly opened up his white towel revealing its contents – venomous snake smashed into pieces along with flesh and blood all mixed together…
The neck separated cleanly from its body while muscle memory remained within what remained; even though its head kept wriggling around and opened its mouth wide.
Cheyenne couldn’t bear watching any longer so asked him to bury its head deep underground instead.
At that moment, Benson received news of a snake in the resort and rushed over to check on their safety. “Cheyenne, Kelvin, are you guys okay?” he asked as soon as he entered the room.
Upon seeing blood on Kelvin’s face and the snake on the ground, Benson was filled with fear. “Did anyone get hurt?” he asked anxiously.
Cheyenne shook her head. “The snake almost got my children just now, but luckily…”
Kelvin buried the snake’s head in a flower bed and threw its body into the trash like garbage.
After finishing this task, he returned to the hot spring and washed his face and hands clean of blood stains while looking at his reflection in the water. His voice was unusually cold as he analyzed. “This snake came for no reason; it must have been done deliberately by someone.”
Benson agreed that this was not an accident because several snakes had been found at hot springs villa today alone – something that had never happened before.
Kelvin’s bathrobe had been stained with blood, so Cheyenne brought him a shirt and suit jacket to wear later. On the left side of the entrance stood a silk screen where Kelvin hid behind it to dress himself while Cheyenne helped him button up his shirt collar and tie.
Her voice came from behind the screen. “My thoughts are just like Kelvin’s. Miss Callahan probably didn’t want us here so she released these snakes intentionally.”
Benson stared blankly at two silhouettes behind the screen; from there one could see how low Kelvin bent down to look at her while she helped him dress up intimately. He even kissed her forehead gently which made Cheyenne playfully hit him back with affection.
This reminded Benson of how Cheyenne used to help him tie his necktie when he couldn’t see before… but he never dared kiss her like what Kelvin did!
Shaking off those thoughts quickly, Benson focused on finding who was responsible for releasing these snakes before leaving abruptly and saying, “I’ll send someone out right away to investigate this matter thoroughly.”