Enrico wiped her tears away, and the more he wiped, the wetter his fingertips became.
It was as if she had been blinded by the snowstorm, staring at this face in the blur, afraid that it was just an illusion.
“One, two, three, four, five, six…”
Gabriel squatted on the ground, counting in a low voice. Great, he had made six snowballs.
“When?” Paige heard her own pale voice ring out.
He’s awake, he’s finally awake…
Enrico’s warm palm was pressed against her face, wiping away the tears little by little. ‘Why have you become a crybaby?’
What crybaby.
She hadn’t shed a tear before they found him, okay? Just making fun of her.
“Speak!” Paige’s voice was forceful, but still hoarse.
Enrico smiled at her harshness, a little helpless, his voice low and melodious, speaking slowly, “It was just dawn, and your man was still asleep when he saw the red ribbons on the trees all over the city, and he was scared awake.”
“I thought, it’s over, because I was slow to wake up, my woman is going to kill me.”
With red ribbons all over the city, how long will it take him to take them down?
“…”
Hearing this, Paige didn’t know whether to cry or laugh for a moment.
It was because of the red ribbon that he had actually woken up because of the red ribbon?
When she tied it on, it was just because of a thought in her heart, where would she have thought that this was the key to waking him up?
She suddenly remembered that every time she went to kiss him before, his performance was the same as before, without the slightest hint of JT.
So after all this time, his muscle memory of her is truly only about food and sex, without adding a hint of anything else, and even awakening depends on this aspect…
“You-”
Paige was very angry and couldn’t help but turn around and twist his arm, “Enrico, you’re an animal!”
She looked at him and saw that he didn’t really like her, he purely liked that.
Enrico let her twist, the pain radiating from his arm. He looked down at her crimson eyes and suddenly reached up and took her waist, pulling her deeply into his arms. He lowered his voice and said, “Yes, if I weren’t an animal, how could I have woken up so late?”
His voice was tinged with bitter heartache.
He stared at her, his hand supporting the back of her neck as he kissed her. Her tears fell just in time and he took them all into his mouth, faintly salty…
Fool, you have fought and suffered so that he can live a clean life.
Paige had waited far too long for this kiss, and she couldn’t help but wrap her arms around his waist and tilt her head back to meet him, desperately trying to feel it, as if only in this way could she prove that he had truly returned to her side.
The snow fell in fine flurries, covering the ground in white.
On the top of the city wall, the figures mingled.
“Pia!”
Gabriel grabbed a snowball and threw it with pinpoint accuracy, complete with sound effects.
“Ssshhhh…”
Paige was shocked by the pain, and when she looked down, she saw that her arms around Enrico’s waist had left deep snow prints.
Enrico turned his face coldly towards the culprit and said, “What are you doing?”
Gabriel picked up another snowball, but before he could throw it, he was frozen by Enrico’s cold gaze, which seemed to want to devour him…
“I’ve never seen snow before, so I wanted to play with it,” he said weakly.
“So you threw it at your mummy?” Enrico’s tone was even colder.
Obviously I wanted to throw it at you, but I don’t know why your mummy hugged you and kissed you?
Under Enrico’s increasingly cold gaze, the little guy rolled his eyes, and decisively smashed the snowball onto his foot, accompanied by the sound effect of being unable to live, “Pia -”
It hurts, it hurts.
It hurts so much.
“…”
Paige looked at him and smiled helplessly. She took Enrico’s hand and said, “Let’s go for a walk outside of the city. I don’t want to stay here anymore.”
Not for even a moment.
“Mm,” Enrico said, wiping his lips with his hand, still in a daze.
Paige looked at Gabriel’s small, red hands and took out a pair of gloves from her pocket, which she had been keeping ready.
Gabriel immediately gave her a kiss on the cheek.
Mommy is still gentle, kind, cute and beautiful.
Paige turned around and saw Enrico staring at her hands, which were covered in bandages and had reddened fingers.
She walked over to him, took his hand and placed it in her down jacket pocket, their fingers interlocked.
Enrico raised an eyebrow, the corner of his lips curling up in satisfaction, before walking down the city wall with her.
“…”
Gabriel followed behind, looking at the little gloves in his hands, and suddenly felt uncomfortably warm.
The city gate was wide open, and the electric fence outside had been removed, leaving a muddy road lined with overgrown weeds on both sides.
The road seemed to go on forever.
Enrico pulled up the hat on her clothes and snapped it onto her head, blocking the fine snow.
Paige held his hand, feeling secure in his arms. She looked sideways at his handsome, thin profile and asked, still a little unwillingly, “You really woke up because of the red ribbons all over the city?”
“You don’t believe me?” Enrico looked down at her with a tone that was a little specious, his eyes full of evil.
Paige couldn’t read him either.
Enrico stared at her for a long time and then smiled. He turned his eyes to the road ahead and said in a low voice, “More or less.”
After seeing Kevin crown her yesterday, he and Gabriel had said they were going out of town, but in their hearts they already had murderous intent.
He knew full well that he was no longer willing to just leave town.
If he left town like this, how would he be any different from a coward?
He wanted Paige and Leonard to pay the price, and they wanted to get married, didn’t they? He was going to make sure they couldn’t.
But he also knew that the Folsom family was heavily guarded, and if he went there, he would only end up dead. So he went to the South City District that night and captured eight people. He didn’t know why he chose eight, as if there was a force driving him to do so.
He couldn’t get close to the Folsom family, so he could only give the threatening note to Gabriel, and the little guy would deliver it to one of the Folsom family’s subordinates.
He thought, “Paige prides herself on being kind, meddling in everything and saving everyone. In her eyes, everyone seems worth living for. If that’s the case, she’s not going to go through with the wedding.”
In the middle of the night, he used the stolen drone to check on the Folsom family again.
Unexpectedly, the Folsom family was still busy preparing for the big wedding the next day. The kitchen started cooking in the middle of the night, and a group of people were busy working…
This wedding will never end.
He can’t say for sure what kind of mood he was in at the time. Maybe it was jealousy, maybe it was hatred. In any case, he wanted to kill the eight people and leave their bodies in front of the Folsom Group mansion as a gift to the two people, no matter what.
But what he saw in the drone was that Paige left the Folsom family alone that night.
She actually went to the house where Hazel had lived to get married. This woman has challenged his bottom line time and time again.
She made him feel less about Hazel, she made him miss her, and she even had the nerve to go to Hazel’s house to get married…