After seeing everyone off to the airport, Paige returned to the Folsom family, took a shower, and then collapsed into bed, falling asleep quickly. The rare good sleep made her not even think about how Enrico, unlike usual, did not cling to her and take a shower together, but instead let her go first.
It wasn’t until the next day that she woke up in Enrico’s arms. She turned in his arms, wanting to look at him, but Enrico opened his eyes and frowned, obviously waking up in pain.
Paige then realized that something was wrong. She pulled his sleeve open and noticed a messy circle of gauze wrapped around his arm.
The gauze could no longer be removed, and was stuck to the flesh.
“…”
Upon noticing this, Enrico propped himself up on one hand and looked at her, before suddenly lowering his handsome head to kiss her.
Paige expressionlessly pushed his face away, without saying a word, got up, and carried the medical kit from outside into the room, squatting in front of the bed to re-treat Enrico’s wound.
The bloody gauze was slowly removed by her, revealing a deep red exposed flesh knife wound.
Her gaze fixed, the injury was not light, but it was not serious either. If it had been a normal injury, Enrico would have shown it to her in the morning.
The fact that he didn’t say anything meant that he didn’t want to talk about the origin of the injury.
She suddenly understood that the process of his sudden awakening was not as easy as he said, and the bitterness and pain were something he didn’t want her to know.
Paige held a cotton ball soaked in medicine and applied it to his wound. Enrico sat on the bed, looking down at her, as the medicine entered the wound. He didn’t even raise an eyebrow, and his tongue licked his thin lips. “Paige…”
“If you don’t want to talk about it, just forget it,”
Paige said indifferently. She wasn’t angry, and since he had already woken up, he didn’t want her to know how difficult it was for him.
Enrico let her play with his wound, reached out and pinched her face, “It’s a small wound, it won’t affect the wedding.”
He still knew about the wedding.
Paige picked up the gauze roll next to her and started to bandage him, asking, ‘Are you sure you don’t need stitches?”
The wound was clearly that deep.
“No, I have a very strong healing ability,’ Enrico said nonchalantly.
Just as he was talking, there was a knock on the door. Paige raised her voice while fixing the gauze in place, “Who is it?”
“Paige, it’s me.” Casey’s voice sounded from outside the door. He paused for a moment and then continued, ‘The elders… are all ready. Are you going?”
Now that the matter was settled, it was the Folsom family’s turn to settle things with JT.
Paige squatted on the ground, her gaze fixed, and then said, ‘Okay, I’ll be right there.”
“Mm.” Casey left without saying anything more.
Paige bandaged Enrico’s wound, put his sleeve back on, and then finished packing the medical kit before standing up.
“I’ll go with you,” Enrico said, gripping his wound as he tried to stand up.
“You rest,”
Paige said coldly, giving him a glance that was not vicious but which forced Enrico to sit back down on the bed.
“Are you angry?” Enrico reached over and pulled her into his arms.
“No, you have to listen to Dr. Clinton’s instructions,”
It wasn’t true to say that she wasn’t angry at all. She was angry that he was taking it all on himself, that he was rushing to be hypnotized in the underground vault. He always said that she took matters into her own hands, but in fact he was even more ruthless than she was.
“He’s just a mediocre doctor. Apart from drinking more hot water and resting more, he doesn’t have any other words… I’ll go with you, so that those two groups don’t get any more ideas about you.” Enrico put his arms around her waist and spoke in a particularly magnetic voice.
She has a special status, and now that the two families are settling accounts, she will definitely be asked for various opinions, and she may even be asked to choose a side. He can’t bear to lose her.
“…”
Paige stood in front of him, looking down at his handsome face with a cold expression, her lips pursed, not saying a word.
“Fine, I’ll sleep.”
Enrico could tell that she had reached her limit, so he let go of her and rolled over, lying back on the bed. His tall figure made him look obedient.
No matter how hard it was for Paige, seeing him do as he was told made her feel a little better.
She bent down to tuck him in, “Get some rest.”
“A reward for being good?”
Enrico raised an eyebrow, grabbed her thin wrist and tried to pull her down. Paige pulled away and placed her hand directly over his eyes, running her hand from top to bottom, “Go to sleep.”
“…”
Was this a wish for him to rest, or a wish for him to sleep forever?
Paige didn’t say anything, but her heart was really cruel.
Paige turned to leave, when suddenly she heard Enrico say, as if in compromise, “It really wasn’t anything. At the time, my memory was a bit confused, so I couldn’t help but slash my hand. Later, when I saw the red trees all over the city, I woke up.”
So, he almost went insane?
Paige’s heart trembled a little as she listened. She looked at the man in bed, their gazes meeting in his deep eyes. He was lying on his side, resting his head on his hand as he looked at her. His usual evil expression was replaced by an honest one, “I really have nothing to hide from you.”
“Don’t let it happen again.”
She wasn’t sure if she could survive every time he turned into someone else.
As soon as he said that, Enrico knew that she was really not angry anymore, so he hooked his lips and said, “Your man is not that unlucky, turning into someone else every time.”
That’s true.
It was only the second time.
Thinking about it, Paige felt relieved and lifted her foot to walk out.
Enrico rolled over on the bed, his lips still smiling, his gaze already deep.
Whether he returned to the past or became JT, the name Paige was still engraved on his bones, never changing.
Tsk.
His deep affection would be passed down from generation to generation, for future generations to learn from.
…
The liquidation meeting was held in the meeting hall of the Folsom family ancestral hall.
Outside, it was snowing lightly. Paige walked up the steps covered in white, holding an umbrella over her, and step by step, the large old building came into view.
The bells at the corners of the eaves rang in the wind, emitting a series of crisp sounds.
“Sister Paige,”
Derrick and David were leading a group of people to provide security inside and outside the meeting hall, so that there would be no bloodshed if the two sides got into a fight.
When they saw Paige walking up, Derrick immediately came up to take the umbrella from her.
Cynthia accompanied Paige into the meeting hall. As soon as they entered, a warm current rushed through their bodies. In the center, there was a stove burning fire.
Most of the Folsom family had already arrived.
At the head of the table were the family tablets, all brand new, not those in the ancestral hall, but for the more than 100 members of the Folsom family who had died that night a hundred years ago, including the servants and cooks at the time.
Great-grandfather had been young and could not remember all the family names, so many of the tablets had only titles, which made them look even more sad.
Below the tablets stood three chairs, in which Beinice and Brangelina were already sitting.
Brangelina had a gunshot wound before, and she had only been recovering for two days. She still looked haggard and barely able to hold herself up, but she didn’t look as gloomy as before.
Beinice, on the other hand, had a tense face with a very serious expression. When he saw Paige enter, his expression eased up a bit. “Paige, come, take a seat for your mother.”
Paige looked over and saw that the chair next to Brangelina was empty.