That’s really something.
Enrico looked at her with a dark face, his gaze falling on her lips, which were dry and cracked with bloodshot dots. The dots looked like unopened rosebuds, their seductive color extremely annoying.
Paige felt guilty when he looked at her like that, and wanted to say something to ease the situation. But Enrico had already lowered his head and put on her new socks without expression. “I’ll put medicine on your feet somewhere else, since you’re not wearing shoes.”
It’s too cold outside.
“No shoes?” Paige was stunned, how was she going to walk then.
Enrico put on a new pair of socks for her, and the other foot wasn’t swollen, but there were bloody scratches that extended straight into the pant leg, and the pant leg was cut all over with marks of the scratches.
He pursed his lips, without another word, he pulled out his own leg, placed the backpack under her feet, then stood up, and took her hand and pulled her up on his back.
“Enrico, you can let me down, I can walk.”
Paige frowned as she was forced to lie on his back.
Wearing heavy equipment, it was difficult to even walk in this bad weather, let alone carry her on his back. She could hear his heavy breathing.
Hearing this, Enrico leaned over and put the backpack on his back in front of him. He said expressionlessly, “I’m in a bad mood right now, so it’s best if you don’t talk to me.”
After saying that, he carried her on his back and walked forward.
“…”
Paige was silent, her arms wrapped around his neck as she watched him step into the snow, leaving a long line of footprints in the vast expanse of white.
The snow fell relentlessly in the mountains.
It was quiet along the way, with only the sound of the two of them breathing, the white breath dissipating in the wind.
Paige couldn’t stand the silence, “Enrico, how did you guess I was here? You’re amazing.”
She deliberately acted cute with the last sentence, but it made her feel sick.
But Enrico was not at all moved, as if he could not hear her, and did not respond at all, just carrying on walking with her on his back.
He seemed to be angry all the time…
“Don’t think I’m looking for death, this incident today was an accident,”
Paige explained, lying on his shoulder, “I was going to fake my death to make the Folsom family give up the hunt for me. I knew the weather in the mountains was bad and the terrain was complicated, so I prepared the motorcycle, but then… I encountered a small avalanche and it buried my motorcycle, so I had to walk.”
She had seen the mountain when she was outside, and it looked okay, but she didn’t expect that when she came in, it got deeper and deeper, and no matter how she walked, she couldn’t get out.
“…”
Enrico remained silent.
“Actually, my injury looks scary, but it doesn’t hurt,” she added.
Huh.
If it didn’t hurt, she wouldn’t have wanted to smash someone to get her clothes back.
Enrico kept his face cold and didn’t say a word.
His silence made Paige feel helpless. Just when they had just reunited, they were quite affectionate, but now he wouldn’t say a word.
Paige knew she was in the wrong, but she couldn’t say anything to him, so she could only continue, “By the way, Enrico, do you know that I have already received the letter of dismissal! I can cure your illness!”
After spending a long time in this weather, even her lips hurt when she spoke.
It was better not to mention this, but when Enrico was mentioned, she thought about how she had made herself look so miserable, all for a stupid book.
He stopped in his tracks, his handsome face completely falling, his eyes filled with an unbreakable gloom. “If you say anything else, I swear I’ll find an icy lake and die with you right away!”
“…”
Paige was silent, her numb hands quietly encircling his neck as she stopped speaking.
“Still a letter of death… with your way of playing, I’ll be provoked to death by you one day, how long will I live?”
Enrico turned his head and said in a sinister tone.
“That’s not that exaggerated,”
Paige couldn’t help but say.
“Exaggerated? Then do you want to hear something even more exaggerated,”
Enrico said, “I thought about it on the way here, and when I catch you, I’ll break your legs so you won’t dare run again in the future.”
Paige was speechless upon hearing this, “Then you shouldn’t be angry when you see my legs like this, after all, it’s easier to deal with, why are you still angry?”
His logic was really strange.
“Hey! I have to be willing to do it!”
Enrico’s tone was fierce.
“…”
Paige was scolded, but when she thought about what he had said, she couldn’t help but smile, and a sweet feeling welled up in her heart.
Enrico, with a dark face, supported her legs and lifted them up a little, and continued walking.
As they walked, Paige noticed that it was getting dark. She couldn’t help but become anxious. “I’ve been walking all day, and I haven’t found any tree holes or caves. Just put me down so I can put some medicine on my wound and we can go. I’m fine with that.”
It was inefficient for him to keep carrying her like this.
If it got any darker, there would soon be no light at all in the mountains.
“Don’t move,”
Enrico snapped, continuing to walk with her on his back. He said, “Look in front of you. Is that a cave?”
Is there really a cave?
Paige froze, rubbed her eyes with her hands, and looked over. She saw some dead branches lying in front of the mountain wall, faintly revealing a bit of darkness. She was overjoyed, “It really is a cave.” It’s just a bit small.
“Go over there.”
Enrico didn’t hesitate, carrying her on his back, kicking away the dead branches at the entrance of the cave.
The entrance was very small, and Paige was about to say that she would go down first and enter one by one, but Enrico had already lowered his body, bending his knees as he struggled to carry her into the cave.
The entrance was small, but the inside was huge.
The cave was extremely deep and long, with no end in sight. There were also some icicles hanging from the ceiling, which were crystal clear and very beautiful.
Once inside the cave, the cold wind outside was cut off.
Paige finally felt that her face was not as dry.
Enrico took off the backpack in front of him, took out a blanket from inside and spread it on the ground before crouching down and slowly lowering her down.
“Thanks,”
Paige got off him and moved to sit on the blanket.
She hadn’t even noticed the pain from being carried the whole way without having to set her feet on the ground.
“What for?”
Enrico still didn’t have anything nice to say, and took out a flashlight from his backpack and hung it from a rope on one of the ice bars at the top.
The flashlight immediately illuminated the small area of the cave like a chandelier.
Looking further in was pitch black.
Paige sat on the blanket watching Enrico busy himself. She never imagined that she could be treated so well in such a wild and remote place.
Once he appeared, she didn’t have to make any effort.
She gave a small smile.
After hanging the flashlight, Enrico walked over to her, sat down in one corner of the blanket, and rummaged through his backpack to take out the first aid kit.
He sat in front of her, silently took out scissors and cut open her pant leg. The leg underneath was slender, whiter than usual, a white from being in the damp for a long time, and even the color above it had become pale.
Enrico cut the pant leg all the way to her knee, and then began to disinfect and apply medicine to her wound.
The man who had just said he wanted to break her leg was now applying medicine with extreme care, afraid of hurting her.
“…”
Paige sat on the blanket and watched him, gazing at his eyebrows and eyes in the light. The light swayed slightly, making his features look exceptionally gentle.