“Don’t touch me.”
Enrico did not look up, his hands still clinging to the steering wheel, his face buried inside, making it hard to see his expression, only that he looked extremely weak.
Paige watched him like this, and his breathing trembled along with him, “Enrico, please don’t be like this, okay?”
“…”
Enrico was lying on the steering wheel, and cold sweat quickly soaked his shirt, and even his short hair was wet at a visible rate.
Even so, he still didn’t say a word, just lying there, only his hands were working hard, and his body trembled slightly.
“If you’re trying to teach me a lesson, I already got it. I got it when I found out you changed the plan. I was scared. I was scared that the box was full of bad news, that I’d burst into a fire only to find a charred corpse inside.”
She stood by the car door, her nose running. ‘Enrico, I’m sorry. I’ve made you suffer for so long.’
She shouldn’t have kept him in the dark.
She shouldn’t have left him alone to keep on the verge of breaking.
“…”
Enrico’s body trembled more and more violently.
Paige didn’t know if he could still hear her words. She blinked her watery eyes and pulled Enrico away.
“Ugh…”
A sharp, stabbing pain came in waves, and Enrico fell back in pain. His handsome face turned pale, without a trace of blood.
Paige was shocked and quickly pulled her hand away.
She had tasted that kind of pain before, a pain that made you wish you could kill yourself to escape it.
“Take the painkiller, Enrico.”
Paige didn’t dare touch him again, but she trembled as she poured the medicine into the palm of her hand and then fed it to his lips.
Enrico leaned back in his seat, gasping for breath, but he didn’t open his lips. His eyes were unfocused, not even a glimmer of light…
“Take the medicine, Enrico!”
Paige shouted out a little excitedly, a little angry, “You said I was very logical, but when you took this medicine yourself, you didn’t even blink, and the dosage is the same as it would kill someone!”
He knows that.
He’s crazy, crazy!
Paige was almost outraged, and she wanted to punch him, but she knew that if she touched him now, she would only add to his pain.
Enrico tilted his head, rolling his prominent Adam’s apple up and down. With eyes barely open, long eyelashes fluttering, he looked at her without focus, and with all his strength, he raised the corners of his thin lips in a weak smile, “I should have taken this medicine four years ago.”
“…”
Paige looked at him, feeling only her throat blocked and astringent.
“These days, I’ve been thinking, you take matters into your own hands in everything, and like to play with your life. Am I also one of the people who let you develop this habit?”
He said with shortness of breath, his chest, drenched in cold sweat, rising and falling non-stop. He smiled, and blood gradually seeped between his gums.
“No, no…”
Paige couldn’t hold back her anger anymore, and shook her head desperately, “I was wrong, Enrico, I know I was wrong…”
“Four years ago, I let you go, let you start Temple in Heaven alone, let you shoulder everything yourself… that’s why you’ve become so lawless.”
Sweat soaked his eyes.
He couldn’t see her at all, but he still insisted on looking in her direction, speaking with clenched teeth, one hand grasping aimlessly to the side, from the center console to the leather seats of the passenger seat.
He grabbed randomly, as if he wanted to alleviate the pain.
Paige was extremely worried when she saw him like this. “Take your medicine, swallow it.”
She ignored him and shoved the painkiller into his mouth. As soon as it touched his lips, Enrico felt a sharp blade slice his lips, and without hesitation, he spat out the painkiller.
The next second, he grabbed her hand, which was still reaching for the medicine, and wrapped all five of her slender fingers around them, despite the pain of the cut.
Paige was almost pulled into the car with him.
But he suddenly stood up, his pale face directly in front of her, his pupils narrowing and then dilating.
“Is this the kind of pain?”
He asked her with clenched teeth, a faint bloody smell coming from between his thin lips. “It is experiencing this kind of pain that makes you feel that all other pain in the world is unimportant, isn’t it?”
“…”
Paige gazed at his eyebrows and eyes with pain, closed her eyes, and a warm sensation slid down her cheeks. “No, looking at you like this, it hurts more than if I took the medicine myself.”
“Don’t you dare hurt…”
Enrico growled between clenched teeth, his voice tinged with endless pain, ‘Paige, if you dare to hurt again, if you dare to hurt yourself again, I’ll ruin you, I’ll break your legs, I’ll keep you in bed, unable to go anywhere.’
“…”
How did such shameless words come out again?
Paige suspected that he was not in his right mind at the moment, so she quickly reached out to get the medicine. As she moved, she tugged at him again, and Enrico gasped in pain. “Why did I fall in love with a woman like you?”
“…”
“What did I do wrong to fall for you?”
“…”
“Finding a woman like you will shorten my life by half.”
“…”
“Wind Island, Temple in Heaven, virus, Gabriel, Olivia, everything is ahead of me, everyone is ahead of me.”
“…”
“I’m telling you, Paige, don’t push me, push me, I’ll really waste you, sooner or later I’ll waste you… I’ll waste that mongrel too!”
He said this, his breath short and rapid, every word exhausting him, his gaze unfocused.
His hands felt as if they had been stabbed with a sharp blade.
It was as if he was holding a hand full of blood, sticky, bloody, and painful. Even so, his hands refused to let go of her, just clutching and holding on to her tightly, while he kept saying nonsense in his mouth, “I’ll ruin you, sooner or later, don’t you think I dare…”
Paige was unable to get the painkillers into his mouth no matter what, and she was getting anxious and sweating.
As she watched the pain in his brow grow worse, her words became more and more incoherent.
She bit her lip, and finally made the most decisive decision: she raised her hand and slapped him across the neck.
Enrico’s head tilted, and he collapsed limp onto the back of the chair.
The world was quiet.
…
The night passed.
The morning light slowly settled in the courtyard of Rose Estate. The walls were covered with blooming roses, overflowing with fragrance, the green leaves were like waves, and the birds were chirping happily on the branches.
In the quiet bedroom, Paige sat on the floor next to the bed, sleeping next to the bed. Her face was surrounded by her arms, only her lightly closed eyes were exposed, her eyebrows slightly furrowed, and her eyelids kept moving.
She could not quite tell the difference between dreams and reality.
She had been taking care of Enrico. She had brought Enrico back to Rose Estate, given him painkillers, and had the doctor take a look at him.
The sight of Enrico lying on the bed with a white face was heartbreaking.
But before she could feel enough, he suddenly opened his eyes and started talking nonsense about pain again. For a while, he wanted to kill the terrier, sink Wind Island, and put the bone-crushing lock on her. He didn’t listen to anything she said.
He kept making a racket.
Paige was exhausted and finally woke up when Enrico was about to kill the dog. She looked at the bedroom in front of her and slowly came to her senses.
It was a dream.
Enrico slept peacefully after passing out last night.