She looked down, picked up the search ad, saw some snowflakes on the pages, so she raised her hand and carefully brushed it and blew on it.
On the ad paper is a photo taken on the third day of Ashtyn’s birth, the child’s grape-like car-riding eyes open, grinning, and bubbles spitting from her mouth, setting off her charmingly cute little pink face.
Because the paper fell on the ground stained with snow, resulting in Ashtyn photo that location wet a lot, she was very distressed to wipe the advertising paper on the scarf, the result of a single accidentally broke the thin paper.
Ashtyn’s good photo split in two.
Vivian froze, “Yikes, it’s broken.”
Her small face full of sadness sank and sank, immediately held the search ad in her arms, “I’m sorry, it’s Mommy’s bad, Ashtyn don’t be angry with Mommy oh, Mommy was just careless before breaking your picture, I’m sorry …”
Edward stood by during the whole process, and seeing Vivian’s careful actions and the way he took care of Ashtyn’s picture on the advertisement paper, his nose sank and his eyes misted with water.
As soon as he turned around, he slammed his fist on a sycamore tree, “Damn!”
It was clear that Ashtyn was gone, but Vivian held on to hope, hoping all the time that Ashtyn would return to them.
The cruel truth was hidden in Edward’s heart, and he wanted to go to Vivian and tell her the truth countless times, but he couldn’t say it.
“Edward, what’s wrong with you?”
Vivian looked down and pieced together the torn advertising paper, then sandwiched the torn paper between a pile of missing person’s ads.
As soon as he turned around, he saw Edward’s left fist smashed in a sycamore tree, his right arm leaning across the trunk and pillowing his forehead in a painful gesture, not knowing what he was thinking.
She walked towards Edward and found that his left hand had broken the skin and spilled crimson blood, dripping down his fingers on the white snow surface, which was particularly harsh.
Putting the advertising paper into the limo, he turned and walked over to Edward again, lifted his left hand, blew on it, and then took the scarf off his neck and wrapped it around his injured hand.
Stiffly wrapped the hand like a ball.
“I know you’re worried about the baby, too, and anxious about the fire.”
She held his hand and looked at him with an extremely gentle tone, saying, “But our child is lucky, we will be able to find him soon. edward, as long as we don’t give up, we will be able to find him one day, don’t worry too much.”
Vivian herself because of the disappearance of children, tea and food, sleepless nights, the whole person just a few days lost several pounds, but now a strong comfort Edward.
The irony of the scene made Edward’s heart quite unpleasant.
He straightened up, turned around and faced Vivian, looked down at the hands wrapped in a thick scarf, and looked at Vivian’s miserable and helpless cheeks, so thin and haggard that it hurt his heart to break.
Edward held her and put his right hand on her head, hugging her tightly with a little force, strangling Vivian so much that she could hardly breathe.
But with the two of them holding each other tightly, Vivian could clearly feel his trembling body, suppressing too many emotions.
He, for all intents and purposes, is a man of few words.
And she is a woman, that is, there is pressure, cry a little on the good, but he is different, all things hidden in the heart, only to feel more tired of the heart.
Vivian reached out and put her arm around Edward, soothing him kindly, “Don’t be sad, everything will be fine.”
Because Edward agreed to let Vivian out to find the child, she was cathartic and seemed much better than the previous days’ breakdown.
“Silly girl. Can we … stop looking for a child and have another one, OK?”
Edward was moved, his cold heart, because she said ‘don’t be sad, everything will be fine’, and warm to melt.
“How can that work?”
Vivian stood up straight, looked straight at Edward and shook her head, “Ashtyn is Ashtyn, and even if he had another child, he would not be Ashtyn.”
Edward: “…”
Pulled, but found that to her in addition to heartache, pity, do not know what to say.
Four eyes facing each other, a few dozen seconds of silence, surrounded by the sound of the wind in addition to hunting, it is cold and silent as if they were the only two people left.
“Have you ever wondered if Ashtyn he died …”
Before the word ‘death’ could be uttered, Vivian slapped him in the face, “Edward, what are you talking about? That’s our child, I forbid you to curse him.”
Although it was a slap, it didn’t use much force.
Vivian glared at him angrily, “Come on pooh-pooh, that look won’t work if you say it.”
Edward: “…”
A complex gaze flickered as he watched her without speaking, only the hands hanging at his side were clenched tightly together, clicking at the bone joints.
The child is clearly dead!
God knows how helpless and torn Edward was?
On the one hand, he wanted to tell Vivian the truth like crazy, but on the other hand, he was worried that Vivian would not be able to bear the merciless truth and be driven to collapse.
“Edward, I told you to take a quick spit, come on! Surely I’m going to be angry.”
She stomped her foot in exasperation.
Good things do not work, but bad things are often the same as the light of the crow’s mouth, saying that everything works.
Vivian really doesn’t want to see that kind of truth.
She, can’t accept it!
In the small woman repeatedly insisted, Edward put down the cold nature, inclined his head, when really spit towards the ground.
Obviously everything seems so childish.
But Vivian actually breathed a sigh of relief and said, “So we’ll be okay in Ashtyn. edward, you go back now, and I’ll go hand out flyers for a while.”
After saying that, turned around and walked to the car, from the passenger window took a stack of people search ads, continue to send.
See people to send, see people to give, and do not care whether others agree, and do not care whether that photo can find a child born less than a month.
“Let’s go home. ashtyn is less than a month old, you just can’t send out three million points of flyers a day without someone being able to find a clue.”
Don’t say Ashtyn is dead.
Even if it is alive, it is also a day by day, not to mention the child less than a month in swaddling clothes all day, where so easy to find?
Edward unwrapped the scarf wrapped around his hand, walked up to Vivian and took her hand towards the limo, “Go, go home, go to bed!”
“Edward, let go of me, I’m not going back, I’m not sleepy, let go of me!”
She was furious and felt that Edward was a bit overbearing, “Let go of me, I want to find the baby and I don’t want to sleep!”
Where’s the sleepiness?
The child has been ‘missing’ for several days, further delay will either break the trail or the child will become more and more dangerous, and that is what Vivian does not want to see.
“You stop it!”
Edward couldn’t stand it and roared like an outburst, raising his finger and pointing to the empty street, “Look where there are people? You want to send leaflets to whom you send? The first thing you need to do is to get some rest, so you won’t have the energy to look for your kids tomorrow, Vivian, can you wake up and stop giving me trouble?”