Again? Horace’s anger rose again. However, with everyone here, he could neither snap nor grab Clara’s hand and leave. Therefore, he could only suppress his anger.
Glaring at Clara, he was both angry and heartbroken. Did he mean nothing to her now? Was he just an object she could give to someone else?
“Thank you, Mr. Kirkland,” Harper said with a shy look on her face, “Let’s go right now, we can come back early and get the meal ready early.”
Without answering her, Horace fixed his eyes on Clara and was expecting her to stop this. However, Clara only turned her head away and went on with her business to ignore his gaze.
“Mr. Kirkland, we’d better leave now,” afraid she might lose this rare chance, Harper hurriedly walked up to Horace and urged him.
Horace’s heart was filled with disappointment upon seeing that Clara didn’t even take one look at him. He covered the sadness in his eyes, turned around and walked towards the direction in which the guide had just pointed at, as if he was trying to hurt Clara.
‘You want to set me up with someone else? Okay! I’d like to see if you really care nothing about me and if you are really that happy seeing me with another woman!’
Seeing that he had agreed to get water with her, Harper strode excitedly to follow him. Meanwhile, she was determined that she would grab this opportunity and get him this time!
Seeing this dramatic turn-away, everyone was stunned in place and didn’t know what was going on,
“What did Miss Hutchinson mean by asking Mr. Kirkland to go with Harper?”
“I know! Harper is so pretty, isn’t Miss Hutchinson worried Mr. Kirkland might fall in love with her?”
“I thought Mr. Kirkland was going to get Miss Hutchinson back, what is this now? Do you think it’s because Miss Hutchinson doesn’t want to get back with Mr. Kirkland that she deliberately asked them to go get water together?”
“Maybe. On our way here, Miss Hutchinson has been giving Mr. Kirkland cold shoulders. I think maybe she has no feelings for him anymore.”
“But why? Mr. Kirkland is such an excellent man! What a pity!”
“Miss Hutchinson is no worse. She’s beautiful and talented. And she is the daughter of the Hutchinson family. Maybe Mr. Kirkland isn’t so excellent in her eyes.”
“So, Harper’s going to have him?”
…
Hearing everyone’s discussion, Sarah felt bad and confused.
She had seen it with her eyes that Clara was crying over the fact that Horace and Harper were getting along, what was this now? Why would she help Harper?
Sarah couldn’t figure it out on her own, so she walked up to Clara and asked, “Why did you do this, Clara? What if Horace fell in love with Harper?”
Clara was making kebabs, and she was stunned when she heard Sarah’s words. However, she didn’t answer but continued applying sauce on the kebabs.
Seeing the look on her face, Sarah knew that she wasn’t feeling well. In that case, why did she do that?
“Clara, are you really not getting back together with Horace? I think he cares a lot about you and…” as Sarah said, she hesitated for a while, “And it seems you still have feelings for him as well. If you two still love each other, why not get back together?”
“I don’t have feelings for him!” Clara subconsciously wanted to deny it with a rare stern look on her face.
Sarah opened her mouth and wanted to say something more. But when she saw the look on Clara’s face, she had to swallow her words.
At this moment, Clara had realized that she was giving Sarah attitude and that Sarah only said those words because she cared about her. She thought she shouldn’t be an ungrateful person.
Holding her hand, Clara said, “I’m sorry, Sarah. I didn’t mean to snap at you. I know you care about me, but I just don’t want to hear him name again.”
“I see. I won’t bring up his name again. I just want you to be happy,” holding Clara’s hand, Sarah said with concern.
“Thank you, Sarah.” Clara was moved by her words. There were few people who cared about her unconditionally now. “Thank you for caring about me.”
“You have been a good friend,” Sarah replied with a smile, “You can continue making the kebabs. I will go get some firewood.”
“Okay.” Clara smiled and nodded. Then she watched Sarah leave.
She stood there and Sarah’s words came to her mind again. “And it seems you still have feelings for him as well. If you two still love each other, why not get back together?”
Did she still have feelings for him? How did Sarah see it?
No! She couldn’t! Clara denied it. “I can’t have any feelings for him! I can’t! I don’t want to taste the despair I had tasted five years ago again!”
After closing her eyes and calming down for a while, she opened her eyes and continued. It was not until she finished applying sauce on the kebabs that she asked everyone over for barbecue.
Everyone was hungry at this moment and was cheered up when they heard her words. However, Sarah, Harper and Horace didn’t come back even after they finished grilling the meant.
“What happened? Why aren’t they back yet? Did they run into any danger?” Seeing that the three of them didn’t come back after such a long time, everyone was worried.
Clara’s heart was full of worries as well. However, beside worries, there was also jealousy in her heart,
The island had been developed since a long time ago and it was hardly possible that they would run into dangers here. Sarah hadn’t left for long, maybe she was still getting firewood. But Horace and Harper had left for a long time and still didn’t come back. Was it because they were having much fun that they didn’t want to come back?
“There are a lot of people here on this island, what dangers can there be? I think they are just enjoying their alone time together and don’t want to come back here,”
Diane said with her voice dripping with sarcasm. When she said those words, she glanced at Clara. Obviously, she said these words for Clara to hear.
Even though Clara knew she said these words on purpose, she had been thinking about it and felt even worse when she heard someone point it out.