'This is enough. I can figure out the rest gradually since I found Kisa.'Gilbert lay down on his back, feeling dull pain all over his body once the adrenaline rush ended.Lea was in the villa when she woke up. Many people surrounded her.Davian asked anxiously, "Where is Mr. Kooper? Have you seen him?"Madalyn squeezed in immediately after. She yelled at Lea with a sinister face, "Where did Kisa abduct my grandson? Tell me immediately! Tell me now!" Madalyn shook Lea's shoulder with her hand as she spoke.Lea was already weak when she woke up, but she almost fainted again after receiving a hard shake from Madalyn.Luckily, Jensen hurriedly stopped Madalyn's shaking. "Give her a minute. We can ask later.""It has been a whole day. His phone can't be reached, and the snow is brewing outside. How can you ask me to wait?"Lea looked out the window in shock. "Is the snowstorm here again?"Jensen said to her, "It has been snowing for several hours. It's five o'clock in the afternoo
"Mr. Kooper?" Lea seemed at a loss. "I don't know. I didn't see him. Could he have accompanied Emma down the hill?""Impossible." Madalyn flatly denied it. "My grandson has no interest in Emma. There is no way he would accompany Emma down the hill."Lea shook her head. "Then I don't know. I know nothing after being knocked out by Emma. Kisa..." She looked at Jensen and cried anxiously. "Jensen, you must go save Kisa. We were making snowmen at that place; I think Kisa is near there. Please send someone to find her."Adrien bit a cigarette in his mouth, his eyes glancing at Lea, who was mourning and anxious, with a half-smile on his face."We have searched around there and did not find Ms. Becker. Since there was a heavy blizzard, we simply could not see anything. If not for your bright-colored clothes, we couldn't have spotted you, freezing to death in the snow," Davian could not help but say.Lea was sad once again at Anthony's callousness. Her face grew sadder and sadder."What
Every time her eyes met Adrien's sharp, piercing eyes, she would look away quickly, her body shaking uncontrollably.Jensen took in the look on her face and the eyes. He clenched his hands and stared gravely at Adrien.The blizzard was still ferocious outside. The freezing wind was carrying snow into the cave. Gilbert moved Kisa inside, sat against the rock wall, placed Kisa in his arms, and hugged her tightly from behind. The cave was enormous, with a small pond of water on the other side. There were also small, unknown flowers growing around the pond. The short-grown flowering shrub was dotted with tiny, edible, fruit-like red orbs. The good thing was that there were no snakes, insects, or ants in this season, so the cave was quite clean. He stared blankly at the snowflakes flying past the cave's opening as he held Kisa's hands tightly. He did not know when this blizzard would subside. Davian and others could only come to their rescue after the blizzard stopped. But he was not eage
The sound of breaking cups and bowls resounded in the room as Adrien glared at Jensen. Adrien rarely showed his emotion except in front of Jensen. "I dare you to say what you just said again!" He gritted his teeth in anger as if he would punch Jensen at any moment.Jensen glanced at him indifferently. "If anything happens to Gilbert and Kisa, I will not spare you." His voice was colder than the look in his eyes."Heh, won't spare me?" Adrien came up to him and grabbed him by the collar, laughing sarcastically. "Don't forget who helped you get a foothold in Raworth. Without me, you would have been dead many times over."Jensen looked at him with a touch of sadness in his eyes. He snickered and said, "You said you wanted to seek revenge on them and for what happened back then, but you didn't say you wanted to take their lives. Do you think this revenge still has meaning if you do this? Will you still feel happy if they are gone?"Adrien lowered his eyes, and his grip on Jensen's coll
"Are you asking me to go out and find him now?"Madalyn suddenly stopped talking and just looked at Jensen with tearful eyes.Jensen suddenly chuckled, and then it turned sadder. "Then have you ever thought that if I go out now, I might probably not come back?""I... I..." Madalyn covered her face with her hand and cried out in grief. "I can't help it. I'm so worried. I raised Gilbert, and I'm really afraid that something bad will happen to him."Mia, who was sitting on the couch, became upset. "Mrs. Kooper Sr., there is a blizzard outside. You can't feel it in the house, but try going to the mountains beyond the border. You will be frozen to death in a minute, believe it or not. And now it is night and pitch-black outside. How could you expect Jensen to find them? Besides, is Jensen's life worth less than Gilbert's?""I didn't mean that," Madalyn hurriedly said. "Now that the snow has blocked access to the hill, the search and rescue teams cannot come up, and the snow also held u
Her hair stood erect, her body tense, and she was too scared to move. It was all dark in front of her eyes, and she could only see the snowflakes flying outside the cave. The air was chilly. Half of her body was pressed against a very warm surface, and the warmth was so obvious that only skin-to-skin contact could make that kind of sensation. 'Skin-to-skin contact?' Her heart skipped a beat at the thought, and her mind went blank. She ran her trembling hands over her body."Aaaaah!"Fear overwhelmed her, and she screamed and tried to get up in a panic, but that hurt, and she gasped in pain."Lie still if you don't want to freeze to death."Suddenly, a familiar voice spoke beside her. Immediately after, her body was pulled into that blazingly hot embrace again. She shuddered at the sudden change in temperature. But when she heard that familiar voice, her fear subsided.She shivered and wrapped her arms around her chest. "G-Gilbert?""Shh, be quiet. I need to sleep."Kisa was conf
"Huh?"Gilbert answered half-heartedly and so lazily that Kisa was about to think he was asleep."Where is this place, and why are you here too?""This is a cave, and I am here to save you." He simply told her the truth.Kisa was still a bit confused. "Wasn't I pursued by Emma and fell down the snow slope? Then you...""I saw it, but it was too late to save you. So I simply jumped down with you from where you fell. It was lucky that I landed in the same place as you did. Otherwise, it would have been difficult to find you in such a big mountain forest with such a heavy snowfall." He spoke calmly. Kisa was too shocked to speak because of what Gilbert had said.'He has gone so far as to jump down a snowy slope to save her. Did it occur to him at that moment that the jump might have killed him? Why does his saving of me sound like a fantasy?' Kisa thought to herself, and she could not help believing it in this place and at this moment.Gilbert suddenly snorted when he heard nothing
"You were not the one who hurt Grandma." He repeated with an air of obstinacy and slight annoyance.Kisa smiled dementedly. "Why am I not now? Didn't you convict me of this crime in the first place? You grabbed my hand and forced me to sign that confession? Have you forgotten? Gilbert, you're not trying to cheat me out of my feelings again, are you?""No," Gilbert murmured. "I heard the conversation between Grandma and Sharon, and Sharon was the one who harmed Grandma.""Heh!" Kisa was shocked upon hearing that, but there was even more self-deprecation and sadness, all without a bit of happiness. "Gilbert, right from the beginning, I told you vociferously that I did not hurt your grandma. I even kneeled before you and begged you to believe me, but you didn't. You only ever thought of me as a vicious woman. Back then, if you had believed me, maybe you wouldn't have sent me to jail, and our child wouldn't have died.""The child..." He almost made a Freudian slip, revealing the fact t