Eli Wayne was about to depart for France and Natalie Wheeler went to see her off.
Eli held Natalie’s hand tightly and said reluctantly, “Stella, please don’t bear your troubles alone. You would feel better if you share your problems with others. Since I’m not around, you can write it in a letter and pretend that you are telling me. Then, you will feel much better.”
Natalie nodded, “Okay.”
Eli’s eyes turned red. She sniffled and said in a choked voice, “I’ll miss you, don’t forget me. Let’s be friends again in our next life.”
Seeing Eli cry, Natalie’s tears flowed down in an instant. She nodded, wiped Eli’s tears, and said, “Remember, be cautious no matter what you do. You have to rely on yourself in the outside world. When you are angry, listen to some music and calm down for five minutes before making a decision.”
“I will. You must inform me once Sean has a new lover. I will come back to see you secretly. I think he will have a new lover soon,” Eli said expectantly.
Natalie’s eyes darkened and she did not speak. When she saw Sean Yaleman coming over, she said briefly, “He’s here, take care of yourself.”
“Okay,” Eli replied. She couldn’t help but feel sad.
When leaving this time, she didn’t know when she would come back to meet her best friend again.
Sean walked to Eli and put one of his hands into his pocket. He said meaningfully, “It’s not like you won’t see each other forever. What are you crying about?”
Eli wiped her tears, “Does it have anything to do with you if I’m sad? Why are you so bothered about other people’s emotions?”
Sean held Eli’s shoulder and pulled her into his arms, “We are going to travel, so we should leave with a happy heart. I am the one who should be sad.”
He held her and turned around.
Eli looked at Sean in confusion, “You can come and go freely. Why should you be sad?”
“Don’t you know why am I sad?…”
Sean’s and Eli’s voices were getting farther and farther away. It was not until they got on the plane and the plane had disappeared into the sky that Natalie finally turned around.
Now, apart from waiting for the news, she was going to get the boating license.
Every day, she would head over to the training center, then back to the hotel. It was a cyclic routine.
Getting a boating license was much easier than getting a car license. She got the license in a week and could sail her own yacht to the sea.
The place she wanted to go the most was the deserted island that she had stayed before. Fortunately, she remembered the location. After she set up the navigator, the yacht was sailed on autopilot. She just had to check if there were any mistakes from time to time.
Before she left, she bought a lot of food.
It took 8 hours for her to get to that deserted island from A city. She checked out of the room and set off at 8 a. m. She also brought three buckets of diesel with her.
The weather was good today. Perhaps because she was on the sea, paired with the chilly weather of late September, so it was a little cold. She wrapped herself in a blanket and stood at the bow, looking at the boundless sea.
This was her future life. She would stay on the sea off-the-grid for a long time, staying far away from the secular world. She would disembark to buy some ingredients occasionally and would not inquire about anyone’s news until she could not live any longer…
At 4 p. m, she was approaching the island. From a distance, she saw something different. She utilized the telescope that she got from the store and saw that there was actually a house by the sea.
She had a strange feeling in her heart. Who built the house here?
Ten minutes later, the yacht approached the shore.
She saw clearly that it was a three-story cement house surrounded by two and a half meter high walls.
Outside the wall was a gully for water storage. There was only one path leading to the iron gate. The iron gate was locked, so the master was probably not in.
She didn’t expect that someone would live here. If there was a house here, maybe there would be a second one. Perhaps, she could teach here.
Natalie did not get off the yacht. She parked the yacht 50 meters away from the shore. In the evening, she simply cooked some soup and potatoes. After eating, she lay on a deck chair on the bow, covered with a quilt, counting the stars in the sky.
When the wind blew, she felt very cold even though she was covered with a quilt.
The colder she was, the lonelier she felt, even though she had reached the place where she once wanted to go back to the most.
After all, that man was not in this place anymore.
She looked at the sky in a daze and thought about life after death. She also thought of what would happen if everything could be reversed. Unfortunately, there was no answer and she eventually fell asleep.
When she was sleeping in a daze, she felt as if someone was looking at her and lifting her quilt.
She couldn’t open her eyes nor speak. She wanted to sit up, but her body couldn’t move. She struggled for a long time, but she didn’t wake up. She eventually gave up.
Whether she would be alive or dead, it didn’t matter.
When she thought about it, she felt that her body was floating lightly, as if her soul was leaving her body and flying into the air. Then, she sank suddenly and fell into an unconscious state.
In the morning, she was awakened by chirping sounds from the birds. Her head was dizzy and her nose was a little blocked as if she had caught a cold. She sniffled, got up and washed up.
She saw two wolves passing by the beach, and gradually, there were three, four, six… twelve wolves.
There was a wolf who saw her and cried out, while the other wolves looked at her.
If she and Jasper Milton met this pack at that time, it would definitely be a huge battle. Even if Jasper was good at shooting, he couldn’t kill so many of them.
Thinking back, they were quite lucky, at least they didn’t die a horrible death.
Those wolves stared at her for an hour, but in the end, they gave up and left with their heads down.
Natalie cooked some soup again. She also made herself some ginger tea.
After eating, she ran on the treadmill for half an hour. She was so dizzy that she didn’t take a shower. She took aspirin and drank a glass of water. Then she lay down on the bed and fell asleep. When she woke up again, it was almost noon.
Her cold had not recovered. In fact, it was getting even worse. Her snot was flowing constantly and her breathing was irregular.
Honestly, she had only herself to blame. She shouldn’t have slept outside in the cold last night. She cooked some soup again and lay on the bed to watch some movies that she had downloaded on the computer.
Just like that, a week passed by in a muddle.
What was interesting was that the wolves had been here for five days in a row. On the sixth day, they appeared to understand that she would not disembark onto the shore, so they did not return.
On the eighth day, she returned to A City.
She wanted to see what Eli was doing right now. Besides, Allen might have told her when he would come, but she did not receive any messages.
She set off at 7 a. m. and started receiving a signal at about 2 p. m.
There were a lot of notifications of missed phone calls, many of which were from Sean and Allen.
She called Allen first.
“Where did you go? I couldn’t reach you at all,” Allen said in a low voice.
“I got a boating license and sailed to the sea for a few days. There was no signal on the yacht. Sorry to let you worry about me,” Natalie said apologetically.
“You’re living a free life.”
Natalie just smiled and said, “Perhaps I’m just doing what I want to do.”
“I saved Eli two days ago. I’ll send you the address later. Then I’ll have her transferred eight days later, right?” Allen confirmed.
“Yeah, we need to make sure that during this period of time, we don’t let anyone take Eli away.”
“Understood. I will go to A Country on the 15th of October, and I have something to tell you,” Allen said in a serious tone.