Enrico sat motionless in his chair, allowing her to move.
Paige traced his brow with her fingertips as many memories crossed her eyes, from when they first met, when he taught her how to drive, when he was stood up like a marionette, when he carried her out of the snowy mountains …
She gazed at him, cupped his face and slowly turned her face sideways, kissing him on his thin lips.
Shallow.
Loving and tender.
Endlessly fond.
The look in her eyes was so reverent that it made the kiss extraordinarily clean, preventing him from holding her and kissing her deeper.
The breeze swept over both of their eyes.
Paige pressed her forehead to his and asked in a low voice, “How’s the medicine going?”
At his words, Enrico said in a low voice, “It’s strange to say that this Forgotten Life Fruit and Deadwood Snow really seem to be made for AS schizophrenia gene, I’ve only been using it for a day, and my head hasn’t ached anymore.”
Knowing that the fiercest time, his headaches had reached as many as six times a day.
Hearing that reassured Paige.
She cupped his face against his forehead, slowly closed her eyes, and whispered, “Enrico, we finally have a long, long rest of our lives ahead of us.”
Enrico stared at her, his hand against her back rubbing gently, “Paige.”
“Hmm?”
“Stay with me like this from now on.” He said.
“Good.” She agreed without a moment’s hesitation.
…
The following morning, both Paige and Enrico were awakened by a violent rap on the door.
Enrico lifted the covers off the bed with a cold face and pulled the door open with a displeased expression, not even looking at the person outside the door, “Are you looking for death?”
“Young master!” Olivia stood outside the door with a white face, “It’s not good, Gabriel has run away from home!”
“…”
Enrico’s eyes shook.
Paige was still lying on the bed, when she heard the words, her sleepiness was gone, the person immediately sat up from the bed, hurriedly got out of bed and rushed to the door with bare feet, “What happened?”
“It’s my carelessness, when I got up in the morning to see Gabriel still sleeping, I wanted to go and make him a breakfast, I didn’t expect to come back and the person was gone, only a recorder was left behind.”
Olivia said anxiously, her whole body panicking.
This child had already been lost in her hands twice, and she was on the verge of having a heart attack.
“Young Master, Young Lady.”
Beau’s housekeeper who had just gone upstairs hurriedly came up and handed Enrico a recording pen, “This is the usual recording pen that I’m afraid of forgetting important things, I don’t know when I let Gabriel take it away and learn to record, I just checked the time, Gabriel recorded it at five in the morning.”
Recorded at five o’clock.
An hour and a half past from now.
Enrico took it with a sullen face and pressed the button.
An exasperated little milky voice came out of the recorder-
“Mommy doesn’t keep her word, before she promised to let me be a two-timer, and now she wants me to take classes and only feed Daddy, humph, Mommy has changed, she’s no longer a good mommy to Gabriel, Gabriel’s angry, I’m leaving, I’m going to be a stray kid. Hmph.”
There was a lot of resentment.
Paige was a little confused, when had she ever said she wanted him to be a second child?
She didn’t panic like Olivia and said, “Olivia, you don’t have to be nervous, there’s security all over the estate, Gabriel won’t get far, he’ll probably be stopped by the bouncers by now.”
“Oh, right right.” Olivia snapped back, calming down a little.
“Did the surveillance check out?” Paige looked over at Butler Beau, there was no surveillance indoors, but there was outdoors.
“It’s being checked, I’m just here to ask Young Master and Young Lady to look at the surveillance.” Beau butler said.
Paige was led away by Enrico’s hand.
In the surveillance room, footage from after five o’clock was played.
At ten minutes past five, an unguarded side door was pushed open from the inside, and a small head poked out, looking warily from side to side to make sure no one was there before stepping out, dragging a small panda-patterned suitcase in her hand, a water bottle around her neck, and clutching a dog leash in one hand.
Gabriel came out from the inside, forcibly clutching the leash outward, his little buttocks desperately trying to pull the reluctant little dolphin out from the door.
Gabriel’s classmates then left the house in a rage, dragging the crate with one hand and clutching the leash with the other, muttering something under his breath.
“Turn up the volume.” Enrico spoke coldly as he stood there, holding Paige’s hand.
Once the sound was amplified, Gabriel could be heard milking his voice and speaking to Paige, “Paige, we’re good brothers, if I’m going to wander, you’re going to wander with me!”
“…”
The little dolphin bites the rope and pulls back desperately.
Gabriel used his whole body to pull it forward.
One person and one dog had a good fight, finally Gabriel’s strength was not defeated, and he fell to the ground, the little dolphin couldn’t bear it, and obediently followed him to wander.
At 5:30, one person and one dog avoided the early risers and wandered to the soccer field.
“Dolphin, I didn’t see a cab the whole way, but that’s okay.”
Gabriel let out a boast, “We’re going to cross the prairie! We’re going to be king of the prairie!”
At 5:50, one man and one dog finally made it out of the huge soccer field and back to the big meadow not too far from the horse farm, where a herd of horses had been herded in to graze at a leisurely pace.
Gabriel was very proud with his arms crossed, “Good buddy, see! We’re in the animal kingdom!”
At 6:30, a man and a dog arrive at the edge of a river that runs from south to north on the property.
The little dolphin rushes over to get a drink of water.
Gabriel walks over to him, and the baby dolphin immediately and alertly arches his head over him to keep him away from the water.
Gabriel was tired and didn’t bother with it, he sat down on the grass farther away from the river and opened the bottle of water around his neck, he took several sips.
He wiped the sweat from his head and looked intently at the river in front of him for a long, careful moment, then stroked the little dolphin’s long hair and exclaimed, “Look, this is the Mother River of A that Mommy told me about!”
“…”
Paige stood in front of the large monitor screen, holding her forehead speechlessly.
During the celebration banquet, she had led Rafael and a few people from Peak Club on a tour of the manor, and this little guy hadn’t followed along all the way, so how come he was so quick to take the soccer field as a grassland and the creek as the mother river?
Oh, she remembered, she was leading a tour at that time, not this route.
The little guy actually still had the courage and resourcefulness to bypass places he had been to before, but after circling around for so long, he was still at the manor ah.
In the surveillance room, Enrico and Paige stood together, while Butler Beau and Olivia stood off to the side.
The four of them were quiet, no one said anything, the atmosphere was not half as tense as a child running away from home, but another kind of subtle quiet.
After a long time, Enrico held Paige’s hand and rubbed it, his voice low, “Paige, have you ever realized something?”
Paige looked at him in silence.
“Being uneducated is scary.” Enrico stared at the screen and said it word for word.
The last time he was at the border, the little guy knew to bring money and take a taxi everywhere to where he was going, this time, just by slipping around on his legs, he thought he had stepped all over Country A. This was not stupidity, it was purely uneducated.
There were no cabs in sight yet.
He walked for an hour and a half, are still at home, where the cab.