Candice’s eyes fluttered, and she finally opened her eyes after a while. A ray of rainbow-coloured sunshine shone into her eyes, the scent of flowers permeating the air. Her ears rang with the chippering of birds.
So this was what the world of the dead looks like, it was not scary, everything still looked so well.
Footsteps came closer from afar, and Candice turned her head on reflex.
At that moment, their eyes locked onto each other, it was like the moment when Candice first saw Emerson five years ago, shocking to the soul.
Emerson saw that Candice was sitting on the side of the bed, and his eyes flashed with undisguised surprise. The flowers in his arms fell to the floor, as he walked here as fast as he could, and hugged Candice without the slightest hesitation and prohibition. The hug was tighter than ever.
The touch was so real, the hug was so warm, the arms were so strong. Candice suddenly understood, she was not dead…
If she was not dead, she would still be Robert’s wife!
She reached to push Emerson away, and used up all the strength in her body, but Emerson did not move an inch.
“Let me go,” Candice opened her mouth to say, her voice was as if it was polished by sandpaper, as raspy as a broken drum.
Emerson did not let go, and even insisted in a firm tone, “This time, I’ll never let your hand go.”
Candice was shocked to her core, she pushed Emerson away harder, “Brother-in-law, you must be crazy!”
Emerson shook his head, “I’m not crazy, I’ve never been as clear headed as this moment, as normal. I’ve run away once, and had caused you to suffer for five years. From now on, I’ll never run away again.”
Candice could not push Emerson away, so she gave his face a slap.
The sound was loud and clear.
A man’s face should never be slapped, especially for someone like Emerson who was king-like.
Emerson pushed Candice away. Candice’s body was shaking a lot, her face was pale, but her eyes were red.
“Brother, you have no right to be reckless, so do I. Did you think of Robert and Edward once you ran away?” Candice mumbled, her voice small and pitiful.
Emerson reached over to touch Candice’s bloodless face, and he took her over into his arms once again lovingly, and he said by her ear in a low voice, “Candice, we had already died once, can’t we afford to be selfish for once?”
Emerson’s hug and the shudder in his voice made her lost all strength and reasonableness to push this man away again.
Yes, they had already died once. If they were not afraid of death, were they still afraid to face everything? Candice laid in Emerson’s arms, this hug made her obsessed, and she had never wanted to loosen again.
The two slowly calmed down, and Candice finally thought about asking what happened all this while. Had she not sunk to the bottom of the ocean? How did Emerson managed to find her? And where were they?
Actually, when Candice disappeared, Emerson lost control for a while and started looking for her quickly. There were a lot of surveillance cameras outside the mansion, when he went through all of them, he found Candice leaving from the back door. When he went through the surveillance cameras on the outskirts, he found Candice’s silhouette speeding through the dark, and got onto a car.
When Emerson drove to chase after that car, just in case anything happened, he left Edward to his brother’s care solemnly, and left his brother to take over the company. Emerson had just been sure that the car was heading for the ocean, but he did not know the exact location. Maybe it was someone in the heavens that directed him, or it was some kind of feeling, but Emerson’s car stopped at the very beach coincidentally.
In the morning skies, the golden sunshine spilled onto the surface of the ocean, there was a tiny head in the sea far far away.
Suddenly a wave crashed over, and the tiny head was gone…
Emerson’s heart exploded as he dove in the sea to save the person without a care. It was not really an attempt at saving; at the same time it was an attempt to commit suicide.