“Hmm?” Stella Grace was in a daze. She didn’t understand what he was saying.
“I said, I’ve recovered all the memories that I had lost.” Jasper Milton explained as he looked at Stella’s face. “You weren’t the one who had accidentally revealed my identity. They recognized me because I met an old opponent in the mission.”
She fixed her gaze on him. Her mind was filled with many complicated thoughts.
She felt hope and warmth, as if there was finally an outlet for her frustrations, yet at the same time, she couldn’t help but feel lost and a sense of bitterness.
He had regained his memory. She had wanted him to recover before this. She remembered everything they had done in the past, whether they were sweet or sad. She also remembered the times they had worked hard together.
But now, what could he do even if he had remembered everything?
Stella turned her back and looked into the distance. A gust of wind blew.
It was very cold.
She shivered.
Jasper hugged her from behind, and warmth instantly surrounded her.
Her back was stiff, as if she was faintly resisting something.
“Stella, did you know how long the ship has sailed for?” Jasper asked softly.
“Hm?” Stella looked at Jasper in confusion. When she saw his affectionate eyes, her heart trembled.
“The ship had sailed for more than six hours before I found you. We’re now in the middle of the deep sea.” Jasper explained.
She had expected that they were at the deep sea. If they were by the beach, Ryan Lameer would have made quite a scene when he bombed the ship. Only in the deep sea could he wipe them off the earth without anybody knowing.
“Ryan is indeed cruel and merciless, but he seems to have underestimated your ability to survive,” Stella said with a wry smile.
Jasper held her chin and lowered his head.
Stella stepped back subconsciously.
Jasper’s eyes were filled with hurt. “We’ll die here if we can’t find a way to go back. Are you still reluctant to open up to me?”
“With your abilities, we will definitely find a way to go back. Right, your adviser would have certainly initiate a search and rescue when he realized that you have disappeared for a few days.” Stella said with certainty.
“I knew that something had happened to you, so I came out in a hurry. Bryan had sent my men away. Even if they had come to rescue us, they wouldn’t know that we had an accident on the sea. Do you think they would come all the way to the deep sea to search and rescue us?” Jasper asked in reply.
Stella’s heart skipped a beat. She looked at Jasper and tried to search for any trace of deception on his face, but she couldn’t find any.
“Will we die in the sea?” Stella asked.
Jasper looked at her. “Maybe, maybe not. I don’t want to die with any regrets, Stella. You still love me, don’t you?”
She really didn’t want to struggle anymore. She was consumed by overwhelming fatigue every time she pushed him away.
She did not know what would happen tomorrow.
Would they live to see tomorrow? At least, she could maintain her current peace of mind.
“How could I not love you? You cut off your little finger and rebelled against your parents in order to escape from marrying Katty. And in order not to marry Bettany, you willingly gave up your property and inheritance.” Stella said with red eyes. It sounded like she was reprimanding him, but her tone was tinged with emotion.
Hearing that she did not deny it, Jasper smiled, lowered his head and kissed her on the lips.
His tongue slipped into her mouth over and over again, and they kissed for a very long time.
The sky began to turn white.
Stella leaned into his arms and looked at the sky.
The red sun rose from the sea. It dyed the clouds a glowing crimson and slowly emerged from the water.
“What a beautiful sunrise!” Stella sighed.
Jasper chuckled.
She looked up at him. “What are you laughing at?”
He lowered his head and kissed her. “The sun is very beautiful now because it’s still far away from us. But, it’ll be very dangerous if we continue to stay like this on the sea. It will only take a day for our faces to get sunburned.”
“I see.”
This was the first time she’d drifted on the ocean. She had seen a survival program on how to deal with this before, but she had forgotten some of the details.
Jasper pulled out a sun umbrella from the makeshift “boat” and opened it.
“Where did you get this?” Stella was amazed.
“It was probably used by the owner of the boat to hold the boat when he rests on the bow. I thought it was useful, so I brought it along. Let’s fix it along the direction of the wind.” Jasper attached the umbrella on the ‘boat’ with Stella’s help.
After he was done, he put the net into the sea and then put it away.
There were dozens of fish in the net when he put it up. However, none of them were larger than her thumb.
Stella was surprised. “You managed to get fish too?”
Jasper smiled and said, “I’ll use the mineral water bottle later to make distilled water. If I succeed, we should still be fine even if we end up floating for ten days.”
“More than ten days?” Stella was lost in thought.
Jasper scratched her nose. “What are you thinking?”
Matters of tomorrow were too far away for her to comprehend.
She didn’t want to think too much. Even if she only had a dozen days of her life left, she still wanted to have a good time with him.
“What should we do with the fish? Are we eating them raw?” Stella asked.
Jasper pulled out a big net from below. He untied the seal and took out two pots, a set of kitchen knives, and a chopping board.
Stella was surprised. “You managed to get all of this too?”
“There are only two good pots. I wanted to take a few more,” Jasper explained.
Stella smiled and said, “Why do I feel like I could spend the rest of my life on a boat?”
“That seems possible. You are a gynaecologist anyway, and you have experience delivering children. However, I am worried that the boat is too small. We can give birth to one or two children, but any more and we can’t stay on the boat.” Jasper joked.
Stella smiled faintly.
She knew that Jasper was teasing her.
The wind and the breeze were gentle. However, if a storm came, it would not be easy for them to survive.
Jasper washed the fish.
“Let me do it. I’m good at this. You can just put them in the pot if you managed to catch more. You should grab more in case we need it from time to time.” Stella said and took the kitchen knife from Jasper’s hand.
She cleaned the fish briskly.
Jasper kept catching fish. Three hours later, the pot was full of fish.
Stella washed the fish, but she didn’t know how to make it into edible food, and it kind of stunk.
Jasper glanced at Stella and joked, “If I had known this earlier, I would have brought those seasonings and condiments along so that we could cook a decent meal.”
Her mouth quirked in amusement at him. “Maybe our living conditions are not bad enough, or maybe we’re not hungry enough. When I’m about to die of starvation, I’d gladly eat the iron pot along with the fish.”
“I have a way.” Jasper poured all the washed fish into the plastic bag and put the pot under the sun. Looking at the sky, she said, “It’s estimated that the temperature on the iron pot will reach more than 60 degrees in an hour. We can slowly roast the fish.”
Stella lay under the parasol and feel the sea breeze caressing her face. The wooden board floated up and down on the sea with Jasper by her side. This felt like a good life…