Chapter 72: Take Off Your Clothes
Tristan’s heart was like a fire burning. He slid down the window of the car, and the moist and salty sea wind blew in, cutting his face like a blade and also bringing him calmness.
He thought of a place.
It had the most beautiful scenery and the steepest cliff. Quite a few tourists fell down from there by accident. Based on his knowledge of Jessie’s character, she might choose that place in extreme emotion.
The wind was increasing its speed, and huge snowflakes fell from the air and danced their way down in the wind. The snow blocked Tristan’s view and made him more anxious. He pushed further down on the accelerator to race the severe weather. A car was coming towards him, and he slowed down to see if there was a familiar face in it.
The snow was getting thicker and covered the whole sky like a blanket. Within the range of his vision, it was all white.
Ed had not called to report his finding for quite a long time. And as he started to doubt his conjecture, he turned to see a shadow.
It was slender, floating, and moving slowly in the snow under the streetlights, like the image in a dream Ed stepped on the brakes immediately.
Kate didn’t know how long she had walked and how far she had gone. She just knew that she could not stop. If she stopped, the pain in her legs would go on strike, and she could not make them work anymore.
The wind was too hard, and it pierced through her clothes without effort and even penetrated her skin into her body. If she stopped, she would be frozen like a pillar.
She caught sight of a black car that stopped in the middle of the road in the distance strangely. She had not seen one single car coming down from the mountain, and she was nervous when she saw it. After a second look, it seemed familiar to her.
Tristan sat in the car, watching that shadow slowly turn clearer. The outline, soon revealed, was familiar and became visible. She wore a white hooded sweater with the hood on her head. Thus it was difficult to tell the shape from a distance.
And when she moved closer, Tristan saw the facial features under the hood and exhaled a breath. He just realized he had been holding his breath just now.
The person in white walked closer to the car and tilted her head to look inside. After seeing him, her shoulders and face relaxed.
Tristan pushed open the door in the front and said, “Get in the car.”
She climbed in clumsily and slowly. His face was reddish, and her lips were almost green. There was frozen snow on her eyelashes. Tristan touched her face, and it was freezing.
He wanted to say something but felt choked up, and the words that came out of his mouth were just, “Buckle up.”
Kate followed, but her hands were stiff, and she struggled for a long while without success.
Tristan leaned over to help her. Then he called Ed, “You can all go back. I found her.”
The other one asked where he found her and if she was ok.
He just replied that she was still alive.
Kate looked at him with puzzlement and started to rub her freezing cheeks.
It was midnight.
The car galloped back home, and they didn’t speak until they got back downtown and stopped for a traffic light.
Tristan reached to her hand that hid in her sleeve and was shocked by her temperature. He gave it a squeeze and leaned over to hug her.
“Idiot.” He said in a low voice.
Kate was startled but soon relaxed. His hug was so tight that Kate felt she was going to be suffocated. What an unreadable person! He was chill when seeing her but now had such an outburst of emotion.
Kate struggled to make herself breathe more smoothly, but she also felt his arms around her gave her safety. Something she was horrified by initially was genial now.
As they heard a horn from behind them, Kate turned back and reminded him, “It is green now.”
“Let it be.”
Tristan was mischievous in his tone. Kate was speechless at his selfishness.
After he felt satisfied with the hug, he got back to driving but still held her hand with his right hand. Kate glanced at him and curled her lips down.Content rights by NôvelDr//ama.Org.
They drove into the parking lot of an apartment building. They took the elevator upstairs and got to the door. Tristan entered the password to open the door and said, “This is my downtown apartment. We will stay here tonight.”
After they entered, Tristan walked straight inside, and Kate was changing shoes in the hallway. Only men’s slippers were available, and her feet looked tiny.
She looked around and found the decoration was masculine, mostly black and white, cold and as hard as the personality of its owner. She had not finished her observation when Tristan came out with his sleeves rolled up. He said, “Take off your clothes.”