Paige was a little speechless by what they had said, and she lifted the coffee in front of her, took a sip, and then smiled and said, “Actually, before this building incident, I still wouldn’t have done this.”
“…”
Carrie and Nick looked at her quietly.
“I’ve forgotten when I developed my current personality. Maybe from the beginning, I’ve classified relationships as dispensable in life. Even when I met Enrico, even though I once thought about leaving everything behind to stay by his side, it was only because I felt I owed him, not because I thought relationships were important above all else.”
Paige’s smile was a little bitter. “In the true sense, I have never compromised anything I do because of him, not even something I consider to be a proper thing to do.”
She dares to charge forward, to fight, and to do whatever it takes to win.
It wasn’t until Enrico explained the box theory that she suddenly understood the kind of heartache he had been carrying behind her back.
“But Paige, everything you’ve done is right,” Nick said in a deep voice.
Without Paige, how would there be a Peak Club, a Temple in Heaven, and a way out for the more than 3, 000 people in Wind Island?
Everything she did was right.
“I didn’t say those things were wrong, but today, some things don’t need Paige anymore.”
Paige looked at the two of them, “From the moment I put myself in danger in the building and made sure you would save me, many things in this world don’t need me anymore.”
“…”
The group listened quietly, no one saying a word.
“The Peak Club has grown to the point where each of you can stand on your own. Even if I were to go into hiding for a while, or even if I were to go into hiding now, you could still do a good job and reorganize Temple in Heaven,”
Paige said, adding that the group had grown up with her and could handle everything.
“That’s not going to work. I won’t recognize anyone as the leader of Temple in Heaven other than Paige,”
Derrick exclaimed in the group.
Carrie and Nick nodded in agreement.
“I mean, it seems like I’ve gradually changed from the role of protecting others in the past to being the one being protected. You, the Davis family, the Folsom family, as well as Jaden, Dr. Clinton, and even the more than 3, 000 people on Wind Island… everyone is doing their best to protect me from harm.”
This feeling was unprecedented.
Paige said, with a faint smile in her eyes, “You are telling me that I don’t have to be so desperate, that I can be… selfish.”
Upon hearing this, Carrie and Nick smiled at the same time, gazing deeply at her.
“Although it’s not quite appropriate to say this, but Paige, you seem to have… really grown up,” Carrie said with a smile.
In the past, Paige was their belief, but now, all they wanted was for her to have fewer worries.
Everyone laughed at this.
Paige was amused too, and she held up the coffee cup in front of her and said, “In that case, I’ll go chase after my husband a thousand miles under your protection.”
“Don’t worry, you’re not isolated from the news. If we do anything wrong, you can just come back and beat us up,” said Nick, holding up the coffee cup in front of him and bumping it with hers.
“We will definitely try our best to create a high-quality environment, so that you and your brother-in-law can fall in love in peace somewhere with birds singing and flowers blooming.”
Carrie smiled and clinked glasses with them.
The three cups of coffee clinked together, and the sunlight outside the French windows was particularly dazzling.
…
After explaining everything, Paige began to slowly look for Enrico.
In fact, she could continue doing her work while searching for Enrico as she had before, but this time she didn’t want to. She wanted to find Enrico and tell him that this time, she was really single-minded in her search for him.
Of course, the main thing was that if she found him with work, she could already imagine the man giving her a cold smile with a raised corner of his mouth, saying, “It’s hard for you to remember someone like me in your busy schedule.”
Sigh.
In short, Enrico is very difficult to please.
Paige sat in the study on the second floor, peeled off the wrapper of a candy and ate it, staring at the road monitoring on the screen.
After leaving Rose Estate early in the morning, Enrico did not hide his tracks, but drove on the road openly and slowly, as if he were strolling in the street.
Finally, the car drove to the airport.
Under surveillance, the man wore a pair of sunglasses, his thin lips pursed, expressionless. He was dressed in an ink-colored shirt, which was not worn formally, and his tie was not fastened, with two buttons loose and the hem falling casually. His straight legs looked overly slender under the camera.
He was seen taking a small black suitcase from the trunk and pulling it away.
“…”
If he really wanted to leave home, why did he have to take the road with all the surveillance cameras?
Paige’s tongue licked over the candy, slightly cool and slightly sweet. She smiled and picked up her phone to call and check Enrico’s flight details.
Soon, the message came back.
South.
He actually went to the southern border.
Paige was a little surprised, and subconsciously picked up her phone again to call Kevin and ask him, the border overlord, to help keep an eye on the person for her. But the moment her hand touched the phone, she decided not to do it.
Enrico is planting landmines everywhere for her.
He deliberately left that message for Gabriel, just so she would go find him.
If she doesn’t find him right away, he’ll blow up;
if she finds him while working, he’ll blow up;
if she finds him through Kevin, he’ll blow up.
“…”
Paige thought about the man who had even left a bunch of landmines when he ran away from home, and suddenly her heart grew tired. She was angry, but why so many traps?
Destroy.
No more searching.
Does he really think she will go to him and coax him? Why should she?
Paige leaned back in her chair and ate candy. After a while, she stood up and honestly went to pack her own luggage. The corner of her mouth rose slightly. Go ahead, find him. If you force your husband to marry you at gunpoint, you must suffer the consequences.
She packed her suitcase quickly. It was always hot in the South, so she didn’t need to pack much.
Paige packed a little and then walked downstairs. Before she reached the door, a miserable and childish cry came from somewhere, “Mommy…”
Paige turned around and saw a little bomb rushing towards her from the stairwell.
The next second, her legs tightened and she couldn’t move.
When she looked down, Gabriel had fallen to the ground, with his two little arms tightly wrapped around her calves. He looked up at her with a pout, “Mommy, don’t you want Gabriel anymore? I’m so cute, don’t you want me anymore? Are you going to have another baby? Do you not love me anymore? Are you going to abandon me in an orphanage? Am I going to start wandering around? Oww…”
As he spoke, two tears fell, making him look pitiful.
“…”
Paige squatted down and looked at the cunning in his eyes with a tear glistening in his eyes, a little helpless. “…” “Classmate Gabriel, what are you acting out?”
Seeing that he had been found out, Gabriel simply wiped away the tear and sat on the ground instead, continuing to hug her legs and revealing a flattering smile, “Olivia told the pretty granny that you were going to go find Daddy. Will you take me with you?”