Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)
The few bodyguards were taken aback. The young master’s gaze, is this… a warning?!
Immediately, several bodyguards understood the situation and knew that this matter had to be kept secret.
At that moment, suddenly a burst of giggling laughter erupted.
Lornell turned his head and saw Harley smiling brightly at him, saying “The slide is so much fun, isn’t it!”
This smile, with a certain infectiousness, suddenly made Lornell feel like sliding down with her, which wasn’t such a bad thing.
Just then, a loud explosion suddenly rang out in the restaurant, and Lornell felt as if his body had been hit by a violent shock. Immediately, everything went black and he fell into a coma.
And at the moment he passed out, the only thing he felt was a small hand firmly holding his hand.
Someone’s voice, as if crying and shouting, sounded in his ear.
He wanted to move, but he couldn’t move at all.
Even though he opened his eyes now, what he saw was still a dimness. Before him, it seemed to be all rubble and broken things that could no longer be recognized.
Where…where is this? Lornell thought, suddenly remembering the loud noise from before.
Right, was that an explosion earlier? What exploded? He was playing in the restaurant at the time, and then after the explosion, did it become like this?
Suddenly, his body stiffened, feeling a soft presence in his arms.
At this moment, he couldn’t even see clearly what was in his arms, but he had a possible thought in his mind. He thought that what he was holding might be the little guy named Harley.
When the explosion occurred, she was right next to him, but… she was lying motionless on top of him.
Did she… die?
The thought of this little guy’s potential death made him feel uneasy.
If only he had told the little one his name… He even thought this to himself, picturing the bright smile on the little one’s face that he had seen last.
At that moment, suddenly, the little one in his arms let out a whimper, causing Lornell’s body to stiffen abruptly.
“Daddy… Mommy… Harley hurts…” The little one’s voice was muffled and filled with tears as he shouted.
The sound made Lornell suddenly breathe a sigh of relief – she’s still alive!
“You… your parents are not here,” said Lornell. Even though it was just a simple sentence, saying it out loud was more difficult than he had imagined. It was as if every word he spoke brought a physical pain to his body.
“Where are they? I want to find my mommy and daddy,” the little one cried with sobs.
“I don’t know where they are… Even if you cry, you can’t go find them,” he said. He always disliked crying, but for some reason, her crying at the moment didn’t make him as averse to it.
Perhaps her crying is reducing the breath of death.
“What place is this?” asked the little one, with a hint of tears in his voice. However, he listened to her occasional talking, and her voice was smooth. It seemed that when she spoke, she did not feel the pain he was experiencing at the moment.
So, her injury shouldn’t be too serious, right?
“Before… I’m afraid there was an explosion, so we might still be in the restaurant now, or maybe we were blown out of the restaurant. Anyway, we are buried, and it depends on whether we can hold on until someone comes to rescue us,” he said.
At this moment, after his eyes adjusted to the current lighting, he finally saw clearly that above them, there was a stone pillar supporting another pillar, creating a triangular space that allowed him and her to survive.
However, at the same time, they were also unable to move due to the small space.
However, even if the space is large enough, he doesn’t know if he can move because every bone in his body is in excruciating pain right now.
It is unclear whether the rescue team will find them first and save them, or if the pillar will collapse due to instability or other vibrations, and no one knows which will happen first.
“When will someone come to rescue us?” the little one asked. “I’m pain right now, but I can’t get up.”
Although it hurt, Harley tried hard to hold back her tears and didn’t cry anymore. Her mom had told her that when facing difficulties, she should be a brave little kid. So…um, she wanted to be brave!
“I don’t know, maybe soon… Maybe… We might die before anyone comes to rescue us,” said Lornell.
For him, the meaning of death is actually very clear.
Harley is only 3 years old and doesn’t fully understand death. She knows that when someone dies, they are gone and can no longer see their parents or play with their favorite toys.
“We won’t die! Not a chance!” Harley immediately retorted. She still had so many toys to play with, and her daddy even said that when she starts kindergarten, he’ll buy her a pretty little backpack!
And, most importantly, she doesn’t want to be separated from her mommy and daddy!
Lornell remained silent because whether he would live or die was not something they could decide!
“My mommy and daddy will definitely come to save us!” the little one said with unwavering conviction.
“Perhaps they are all in danger themselves,” said Lornell.
The little one didn’t understand the meaning of this four-character idiom at all.
“Your parents may have been hit by the explosion and could be trapped like us, waiting for someone to rescue them.” He had originally wanted to say that her parents might not have survived the explosion, but when the words reached his lips, he changed them.
“My parents will be fine!” The little one’s voice, with a hint of crying, “They are definitely safe and sound now, and they will come to rescue us!”
After a moment, Lornell felt a damp sensation around his neck.
Is this… her tears?
“Don’t cry,” said Lornell. Although he didn’t mind her crying, her tears somehow fell on his neck, making him feel a burning sensation.
“I-I didn’t cry, I’m a brave baby,” Harley choked out, refusing to admit that she had cried. “Anyway, my mommy and daddy won’t… won’t let anything happen to themselves, let alone us. They will definitely come find us and rescue us!”
She firmly believes in this.
Time is passing slowly, and the sounds that Lornell was hearing in his ears seem to be getting quieter and quieter, until they eventually fade away completely.
Around here, it seems to be getting more and more quiet.
But this silence also makes people’s hearts become afraid.
“Do you feel scared?” A young and immature voice suddenly spoke up.
“I’m not afraid,” said Lornell. In fact, he had faced death several times since he could remember.
Some of them are even closer to death than they are now.
My father once said that since he is a child of the Quentin family, it is inevitable to face such trials, so there is nothing to be afraid of.
Because regardless of fear, one must go through the experience.
“But I’m afraid,” the little one said honestly.
“Are you afraid your parents won’t come to save you?”
“Not true!” She immediately retorted, “My mommy and daddy will definitely come to rescue us. They promised that I am their most precious treasure, and if I am ever in danger, they will come find me no matter where they are!”
Even though the surroundings were dim at the moment, he couldn’t see her expression clearly, but in his mind, he pictured her looking sulky.
“What are you afraid of?”
“I’ve been like this, feeling uncomfortable and unable to move… I’m just really scared,” she said, unable to describe exactly what she was afraid of.
In reality, she was afraid of the unknown.
“Can you tell me a story? Will you tell me a story?” the little one asked.
“I don’t know how,” Lornell refused directly. He wasn’t one to enjoy listening to stories, let alone telling them to others.
“Well… can I tell you one instead?” the little one asked as a compromise.
“Don’t talk too much. Before long, you’ll get very thirsty and we don’t have any water to drink right now,”
Lornell reminded.
The little one obediently closed their mouth, but hummed a nursery rhyme softly through their nose.
The intermittent humming seemed to dispel the suffocating silence of the moment.
Time passed, and Lornell felt the little one’s humming getting softer and softer until it finally stopped.
The little one didn’t speak, but lay quietly on his chest, as if… dead, motionless.
Before, he didn’t feel scared, but at this moment, he suddenly became afraid, afraid that this little one might really die.
“Hey, you…” He hesitated for a moment, and her name just blurted out… “Harley… Harley, what’s wrong with you?”
After a while, her voice finally came intermittently, “I… am so sleepy, want to sleep… Don’t be afraid,
I… we are together, I’m afraid my parents… will come to save us…”
As she spoke, she groped around and finally found his hand, and then grabbed it.
Lornell was startled, feeling her soft little hand.
He could shake off her hand!
But at this moment, he didn’t want to shake it off. It was as if being held by her like this could give him a sense of security.
Will they definitely come to save them?!
Does she really trust her parents?!
He thought of that night again, when she rushed up angrily and demanded an apology from the others because they had said bad things about her mother.
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My Gorgeous Wife is an Ex–Convict!
He wants to tell her his name, he wants to share his name with her!