Chapter 160
Veronica was walking ahead with Xavier following her.
.
They were walking and chatting when they suddenly heard a scream behind him. Instinctively, they darte
d their eyes sideways, only to see a ck van with its headlights off speeding toward them. Instead of sl
owing down, the van sped up toward them!
“Watch out!” The danger was so sudden that Xavier had his heart in his mouth. However, just as he was
about to pull Veronica aside, she kicked him away instead.
Xavier didn‘t have time to realize what had happened. Even though the kick sent him staggering a few st
eps to the side, his eyes were constantly fixed on Veronica, only that he no longer had the opportunity to
save her, even if he wanted to. His mind went nk in the face of sudden danger; he only felt that Veroni
ca might leave him just like that.
However, just as he was worried
sick about Veronica, he saw her bend down sharply to gain momentum. Estimating the time when the va
n would hit her with absolute precision, she jumped up at the critical moment andnded gracefully on th
e hood
of the van, using it to gain momentum before doing a front somersault. Just as she was about tond on
the roof of the van, she ced her hands on it right away and took the opportunity to somersault off the v
an,nding on the ground steadily.
Astonished by her fluid movement, everyone gasped repeatedly, and they were fascinated by her cool ac
tion.
“Oh, my God! What quick reflexes she has!”
“Not only does she have quick reflexes, but she must be skilled in self–defense. Otherwise, if she had
been a bit slower, she would‘ve died with the van speeding so fast toward her.“.
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“What a race against death in real life this is…”
“Oh, my gosh! She‘s simply terrific.”
“Is she alright?”
The onlooking crowd couldn‘t help speaking of Veronica inudatory terms as they
talked about what had happened.
Rushing toward Veronica in big strides, Xavier grabbed her arms and checked on her from head to toe. “
How are you? Are you alright? Do you feel unwell? Want me to send you to the hospital?” He was so wor
ried about her safety that there was a slight . quaver in his voice as he spoke.
“Oh, I‘m alright. I‘m perfectly fine.” Veronica shook her head with an understanding smile. “Are you kiddin
g me? It was no big deal. There‘s no way I‘d let the van hit me,” she joked withughter while turning to s
tare at the ck unlicensed van that was disappearing into the distance. That van seemed to being
at me. Who wants
to kill me again this time? Who else could it be other than the Larsons? In some cases, it‘s easy to figure
out the
culprit behind the scenes without even thinking about it. But now that Tiffany‘s already about to get marri
ed to Matthew, why would she still not let me off?
“What are you looking at? I’m talking to you.” Still in a state of shock, Xavier went limp with fright. God on
ly knows how horrifying the scene just now was.
“Huh? Oh, nope, nothing.” Veronica shook her head with
a chuckle. “Why the hell was that van speeding so fast? It was like it was in a f*cking hurry because of an
emergency or something,” she chided with a casual air. She only said so deliberately because she didn‘t
want Xavier to think that the van wasing at her. Xavier has helped me a lot ever since I came
to Bloomstead. I can‘t get him in trouble anymore.
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“An emergency, eh?” Xavier ced his hands on Veronica‘s shoulders while turning to look at the disapp
earing van with his head tilted to one side. For an instant, his eyes narrowed slightly with a murderous gl
eam. Just an ident? No way. The van wasing at Veronica, but this silly girl didn‘t realize it at all!
“Yeah, of course. Otherwise, it wouldn‘t have been in such a hurry.”
“Well, that makes sense.” Xavier‘s handsome face contorted into an awkward smile. ying along with V
eronica, he continued, “d to hear that you‘re alright, but… that was a pretty nice spontaneous respons
e just now. Very cool.” He praised her without reservation.
“But of course,” Veronica replied with a self–satisfied smile before walking to the
other side of the road with him.
As the pair left, traffic on the road returned to normal, and the cars were driving again as usual. The onlo
okers just now went about their business as if nothing had ever happened.
Upon reaching the square on the other side of the road, Veronica couldn‘t help but
ask Xavier, “What‘s the present that you said you‘d be giving me?”
Seeing how eager Veronica was to know what the present was, Xavier took her hand and strode on with
her. “Juste with me.”
Next to the square was
the river bank. After walking across the square, the two stood by the river, and Xavier took out his cell ph
one and sent a text message.
Veronica couldn‘t help but ask curiously, “What is it? You seem so secretive.”
As soon as she finished her sentence, a sound that resembled that of a whistle sounded from across the
river, and several rays of light reached high into the sky like shooting stars. The next instant, these rays o
f light exploded into spectacr fireworks with a loud Boom!
After bursting in midair, the colorful fireworks scattered in all directions like a meteor shower, and the light
s slowly dimmed. Then, there were several whistling sounds again, followed by another loud Boom! as m
ore beautiful fireworks exploded in the sky. With their rich disy of lights and colors, the dazzling firewor
ks illuminated the initially dark sky.
“Oh, my! How spectacr.” Despite being apetitive person, Veronica was a youngdy, after all, so
she liked fireworks very much. “Is this the present you wanted to give me?” Her eyes wandered before ta
king a nce at the fireworks in the night
sky. There were a row of fireworks along the river, which meant that at least 60 boxes ––
of firecrackers had been used.
“Uh–huh. Do you like it?”
“Yeah, of course! They‘re really beautiful. It‘s just that.” Veronica couldn‘t help clicking her tongue while loo
of money. I would‘ve been happier if you had given that amount of money to me instead.”
“Haha…” Amused by Veronica‘s remark, Xavier smiled a gentle smile as he felt happy from the bottom of
People rarely shot off so many brightly colored fireworks in Bloomstead except during festivals, so the fire
Stories was overwhelmed with photos that had the fireworks in the background.
Buzz… The fireworks were so loud that Veronica couldn‘t hear her cell phone ringing in her pocket, but sh
She took out her cell phone to take a look, only to see
that it was a voice message from Melissa. When she held her phone up to her ear, she heard Melissa say
Only then did Veronica realize that today was Xavier‘s birthday. However, he never mentioned it at all. Ins
a feast of fireworks as a present due to her
impending departure.
Instead of replying to Melissa‘s message, Veronica put away her cell phone and continued to watch the fir
The fireworks disy went on for 20 minutes beforeing to an end. When Veronica and Xavier looked
people here.”
“Okay.” Xavier nodded slightly.
The two of them pushed and squeezed their way out of the crowd one after another.