A touch of warmth pressed against her skin, with a loving and lingering touch.
Enrico embraced her from behind, his thin lips kissing her neck, his breath teasing through her senses, spreading a little, tingling into her heart.
Paige gradually relaxed, leaning back into his arms, looking up at the crossbar of the old-fashioned bed above her, carved with people, scenes, and objects …
“How much longer are you going to play?” Enrico kissed her, his low voice suppressing disapproval.
He couldn’t see her like this.
He didn’t want to know what else Jeremy was going to do right now, didn’t want to honor any wills, just wanted to get the antidote and get this man dead.
“…”
Paige looked at him and didn’t answer.
Enrico opened his lips in displeasure and nipped at her neck, grinding it delicately, licking his tongue, tormenting her in his own way.
She let him have his way, one eye looking up quietly, and whispered, “Enrico, I’ve discovered a secret.”
“What?” Enrico asked vaguely, his lips and tongue still roaming her neck.
“That boatman you knocked out …” Paige said slowly, “odds are it’s my biological father.”
“…”
Enrico’s kisses stopped and he looked at her with a sideways glance, “No way, how could someone that scruffy and ugly give birth to a daughter as beautiful as you.”
That said.
Paige leaned back against his shoulder, lifting her eyes to gaze into his eyes that had turned black as she continued, “More than that, he liked your mother, and they originally had a betrothal set by THE Davis family.”
“…”
Enrico was shocked, his hand supporting her from behind, “What kind of messed up relationship is that.”
“A hundred years ago, a group of helpers took refuge with THE Davis family, and then they started intermarrying, and in the last generation, it was Alonso and Annie,” Paige explained it to him, smiling a little bitterly, “Isn’t that a bummer? ”
There was such an inexplicable layer of connection hidden between her and him.
Enrico knew that she wasn’t joking, his eyebrows wrinkled, didn’t press for details, only coldly said, “That’s also their business, it has nothing to do with us.”
“I know, it’s just that there are some feelings, me and you, as if we were destined to meet.”
It was as if their acquaintance had been buried from the previous generation.
And they, being led here step by step, gradually lifted all the fog.
At those words, Enrico lowered his head and kissed her behind the ear, his voice low and sexy, “Then you’re the one Annie specially brought to me, she wants to give me a reason to live.”
A reason to live.
Paige’s heart fluttered at the sound of that, and she was suddenly out of her not-so-good mood.
She turned her head to look at him and met his deep set eyes and she smiled, “That must not be for you, but for us to give each other a reason to live.”
“…”
Enrico stares deeply at her, holding her hand and slowly lifting it up to cover the top of the brooch, he lowers his head and kisses her on the lips.
Paige closes her eyes and responds to his kiss.
“Bang.”
There was a soft thud as the door was suddenly opened from the outside.
It was followed by the sound of some kind of bowl smashing on the floor.
Paige realized it was too late to do anything but block the brooch in front of her and looked up to see Francine standing in the doorway looking at the two of them in horror, a bowl of silver ear and lotus seed soup smashed to pieces on the floor.
“Sins! Sins!”
Francine looked at the two of them incredulously, excitedly patting her thighs, “Alonso ah Alonso, you just can’t get Ms. Annie, you can’t lay your hands on her daughter-in-law! Are you crazy?”
“…”
What’s all this with.
Paige felt a bunch of black lines popping up on her head as Enrico still maintained the position of embracing her, gazing down at her, his voice low, “Wait.”
“…”
Paige looked at him, what was he going to do?
Enrico lets go of her and walks towards Francine with his head down.
Francine is defenseless, still chattering, “I think you’re demonic, out of your mind, come with me to see the old lady and ask for forgiveness, go, come with me!”
Saying this, Francine was going to pull him.
Enrico raised his hand, a hand knife dryly chopped on the back of Francine’s neck, Francine eyes rolled over and fell to the ground.
“… You hold her down.”
Paige froze as she watched Francine just fall to the ground.
I can’t believe he just left someone alone after chopping them to the ground, it’s not like Francine was a bad person.
“I don’t hug other women.” Enrico grunted, bent down and strangled Francine’s collar and dragged her inside.
“She’s just an aunt.”
“I don’t hug grandmothers either.”
“…”
Paige couldn’t talk him down and could only command. “You be gentle.”
“Oh.”
Enrico responded, pulling a couple of draping straps from the curtains, tying the man’s hands and feet, dragging him straight into the gap between the back of the bed and the wall, and clapping his hands together, “There you go.”
“…”
You’re really the one doing the bad stuff!
With an episode like that out of the way, Paige was surprisingly quick to digest what she had just learned about her life, saying, “I don’t have much time, so I better find what Jeremy wants in just those three hours, did you find your mother’s room?”
“Found it.” Enrico looked annoyed at the mention.
“What’s wrong?”
Paige asked a little strangely when she saw that his face didn’t look right.
Enrico said with a grimace, “A group of people dragged me to sweep the graves, after worshipping both parents of THE Singh family, worshipped the ancestors of THE Singh family, and after that went outside the ancestral hall of THE Davis family to do it again, and I’ve never kowtowed so much in my life.”
I’m speechless.
Paige was silent, thought about it and said, “This is kind of a common ancestor for both of us, so two kowtows is nothing.”
“And the guys had to catch up with me, pulling and pulling, talking from the time they were crotchless, year after year, until they were in their twenties, when they talked about the rosebush vine outside my mother’s room being pecked at by chickens.”
Enrico’s face darkened.
Paige imagined that image and couldn’t help but almost laugh, “Let’s go over there and check it out then.”
Gotta hurry.
Paige got up from the bed and headed out.
There were so few off-ramps that led to this kind of quad that once they were outside, they were prone to bumping into people doing whatever they were doing.
“You take the shield away from me.” Paige said as she stood in the doorway.
Saving people from thinking he was harassing Paige’s daughter-in-law again.
“…”
Enrico blacked out and took the shield away from her collar.
The two walked out of the room, one after the other, and behind the bed, Francine drifted off into a sound sleep and began to snore.
…
Walking out a door, the sound of a crisp bird chirping comes from outside the courtyard.
Paige was about to continue down the path Enrico pointed out when a couple of tiny figures suddenly jumped in front of her.
She looked down, it was a couple of small children bouncing around, led by the little boy from the field, born with gray pupils and a look that looked witty and cute.
Because of Enrico and Gabriel, Paige loved eyes like that, even if they didn’t look normal to onlookers.
“Hello guys.” Paige smiled down at them.