Chapter 4

She's dejected, Lucrecia changes the bathrobe into a casual clothes in the form of a white t-shirt and shorts covered her thighs. Then she goes out of home right away which before that she grabbed a whistle to summon Boob and Moob.

When she's outside the Villa, Lucrecia blows the whistle in her hand while stepping carefully, she's afraid the downhill road is slippery.

After just a quarter of the way, Moob all of a sudden comes up from the bottom of the hill with a brown wool glove in his snout. The black and white furry dog puts the glove in his snout on the ground, then he's barking several times right before he turns back to go down the hill.

after only a few steps, the dog is turning back, as if signaling to follow him. Lucrecia follows the dog as she knows the message of the dog tries to convey.

"Is there a stranger down there?" Lucrecia asks while walking carefully to go down the hill along with Mood.

Mood barks, answering Lucrecia's question. Although she doesn't know the right answer, Lucrecia assumes that Mood says "yes".

When they're getting closer to the river, she hears the sound of the river. Afterwards, she hears Boob's voice clearly, until finally she finds out Boob's right next to someone's head.

"Is that a human? Is he still alive?" Lucrecia asks, walking closer to Boob. One bark is heard once more from Boob, before finally the dog with the dark yellow color falls silent

"A young man?"

She approaches the sprawled body. The rest of the body is in the river, while the waist to the head is on the ground, with the right hand wrapped around the bag strap, whereas the bag is getting stuck in one of the roots, so that the body keeps holding on that it doesn't to be carried away by the current of the river even in an unconsciousness.

"He's still alive!" Lucrecia exclaims to the two dogs that are nearby. The two of the dogs bark as if they're cheering up to hear Lucrecia's words.

The weather, which was only drizzle at first, turning into rain slowly, though not yet heavy. Lucrecia's getting panic, the more heavy the rain, the heavier the water flow and it will endanger the fainting young man.

"Come on, help me to get him out of the river!" Lucrecia says to the dogs nearby while drawing the bulky body out of the river.

With the help of the two dogs, finally, she managed to get the man out of the river. She also releases his hand that was wrapped in the bag strap. The man's hand turns bruised as it's wrapped tightly.

"Bring this to the house." Lucrecia gives a charge to Moob that is more reliable to entrust something.

Lucrecia's lying the man's body down, then she listens to his heart rate. "He's okay," Lucrecia murmurs with a relief sigh.

In the drizzle that is getting heavier, the light of the lamp is not much and Boob is still accompanying, Lucrecia is trying to wake the man up. It's impossible for her to lift the body that is actually his body much bigger than her. Moreover, the body is unconscious.

"Hey, wake up ..."

Lucrecia slaps the man's face several times, and the longer the slap is getting harder until it leaves reddish trace on his skin, although it's not obvious at the moment.

"Akhhh... It's enough..." Lucrecia pinches the man's nose irritatedly then she gives the man artificial breathing.

She's giving some artificial breathing to the man, with quite hard slaps on the man's face during she's doing it. Lucrecia thinks it's better than freezing to death, or other worse things.

When she is about to give the artificial breathing for the fourth times, the man coughs for several times right before he's opening his eyes slowly.

"Ahhh... "Ultimately, you're waking up," Lucrecia is grateful when she looks at the man's eyes.

"Where am I?"

"Save your question, now I have to take you to shelter, can you rise up?"

The man nods, trying to arise from his lying position. It's difficult for him to sit up, luckily Lucrecia helps the man for sitting. They take a moment to break, afterwards, they attempt to stand up.

"My dogs have brought your bag over there," Lucrecia says, pointing to her villa, answering the question that is in the man's head who looks around looking for something.

The man nods for getting the point.

The rain is getting heavier, and thunder echoes, but they're just going up a half of the hill. They walk so slowly, even the man falls for several times because his legs can no longer support his weight.

"Hey, look, it's already near." Lucrecia says in keeping to boost her morale, for if she loses her morale, the man will definitely become weaker than this.

"Hold on a little longer,"

They're limping for going up of the hill, until finally, they come at the door of Lucrecia's villa. Immediately, the man's body collapses.

"Ah... At least, I manage to drag his body by my own." Lucrecia murmurs to boost her spirit.

Before she drags his body, the man opens his eyes while saying. "Sorry.." The man murmurs, trying to stand back up.

"Take your time, besides we've got in my house." Lucrecia says, helping the man to get in the villa

In her heart, she's very grateful the man is conscious. Although she said she could drag the man to get in, in fact, she still need a huge effort to drag him which his body is much bigger than her.

"Your sofa will get wet, Lady." The man murmurs in denial as Lucrecia places the frail body onto sofa.

"No need to worry." Lucrecia says, adjusting the man's position, then she stands up in front of the man who is drooping weakly..

"I will get you some warm water," Lucrecia tells the man, then she's saying. "Make sure that you're still awake." She warns the man before finally she disappears in one of the doors.

Lucrecia gets into a room in the first floor. The room is very rarely to used, as usually the room is used when her parent come to visit, or more often used by Ramon for accompanying her and Xavier on vacation.

Even so, the room is guaranteed to be clean, because she has hired workers to clean every corner of the villa, at least once a week when she's not visiting. So it doesn't matter for using a barely used room.

Lucrecia gets in the bathroom for preparing some warm water for the man to bath, after filling the bath tube, Lucrecia immediately meets the man. It's obvious the man keeps holding his eyes from falling asleep.

"Let me help you to the bathroom, I've prepared some warm water for you,"

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TBC