Novel Square
Chapter 88
088 The Limping Wolf
Scarlett’s POV Copyright Nôv/el/Dra/ma.Org.
What did I ever do to deserve this? I know it’s wrong to accept it, but it doesn’t make any of the joy of this
moment untrue.
“As much as I believe you,” I try to choose my words more wisely than last time, “We only met a week ago, Mr. Dunn, I don’t think-
1 understand your concern, and that’s why I wanted to take it slowly,” Adrian cuts me off with a kiss on the tips of my fingers, “but I don’t want to do that anymore. You let me in on the pregnancy to warn me off, no? You don’t have to. I will love your child as my own, and I will take better care of you than anyone ever will.”
No woman can resist such a confession from the hero who just pulled them up from a fall to their death.
I’m merely a human!
I trust his words. I’m just surprised because I never painted him as the “love–for–life” type. According to Aurora, he is nothing but a playboy, a womanizer that she wants to tear apart at sight.
Taking a deep breath to calm himself, Adrian starts slowly. “I have been in love with you since that night of our race. Do you remember that night? You were like a shooting star when you passed me on that mountain road, bright and dazzling. I held that first prize for years on that road, and the first time you came, you broke my record. You didn’t just leave your name on the top of that mountain, you left it branded on my heart.”
Oh, My, God! Adrian’s secret crush is Aurora?! The one girl who hates him??! And he took me for her???!
Okay, now this is REALLY awkward.
“Yeah…” I purse my lips, feeling awkward, but more importantly: “How did you know was.me? I didn’t even take off my helmet.”
Aurora said she was taking me for “fun” that day, I think to cheer me up from something
Sebastian did, and her idea was to put our heads on the table for a mountain road race. I was shaking in the shotgun for the whole time. We got the first prize, and to our surprise, the “prize” was a cup of beer! Aurora wouldn’t take off her helmet because she dared not to let the wind of her racing get to her easily worried mom, not
to mention – neither of us was to age.
“Do you remember the beer you throw away?” Adrian chuckles, his eyes shining at that memory, “That’s the special honor for the first prize. It has always been mine, and when you pour it to the ground, the guys laughed at you thinking you dared not to drink.”
“yeah? We dared not. It was true.
“And you threw the coaster in my face,” Adrian tilts his head with a bright smile, “I guess I deserved it. I did laugh with them.”
Ohh…! So that’s the story behind the old coaster in his office….
I seriously don’t remember any of this. I think I was trying my best not to not throw up in my helmet at that
moment.
088 The Limping Wolf
“I mean…just because of a one–time attack, and you set your heart for life…? A bit hasty, don’t you think?” I ask hesitantly.
“I thought that was the night I fell for you, but I think it wasn’t,” Adrian shakes his head solemnly, his voice gentle like a clear river under the summer breeze. “The truth is, I have always been into you, ever since you starred the evil little wolf in your own school play.”
The Sheep In Wolf’s Clothing.
The play was about a limping wolf abandoned by his own pack, can only get the leftovers of the wolf pack -the skin of their prey. Starving on the road when the herding dog mistakes him as a sheep and takes him
ack to the sheep flock. Dare not to expose himself, the limbing wolf is being bullied by the stronger sheeps, when a blind little lamb became his friend. Finally healed, the wolf lured his friend out of the flock as his food, only to be touched by the little lamb and become real friends with her.
I played the silly little blind girl lamb. Aurora was the limping wolf boy.
“Are you sure that you want to marry me?” I cup his face, looking directly into his eyes, I want to know how determined he is, even though I already got all the evidence I needed when he risked his life for me.
“Yes, I am, a hundred percent.”