Chapter 948
Sophia stared vacantly at the heavy snowfalls through the windows with tears running down her face.
I was wrong. Pleasee back safely, would you?
…
It waste at night in the mountains.
Alice woke up from aa to find herself lying in a small warm area.
She attempted to sit up, but immediately felt an intense pain at her waist upon moving her body. The
pain was so strong that she nearly cked out, and so she had no choice but to lie down again weakly.
Suddenly, a voice emerged from behind. “Your waist is injured. I’ve treated the wound and performed a
suture. Stay still for now.”
Upon hearing the voice, Alice lifted her eyes to see a bonfire in front of her, and Michael was sitting
across it.
He had taken off his ck coat and was wearing a suit of thermal underwear. The tight clothes fitted his
tall and muscr body well, especially the brawny chest that he had trained for the sake of the movie.
With his head lowered, he was fumbling with something. Looking at the wan ze of fire that projected
on his delicately outlined face and his features which could only be half-seen, Alice sensed a mysterious
and cold aura.
Michael was sharpening a wooden stick with an army knife that he always carried with him, and after he
was done, he jabbed the sharpened end of the stick into the ground. Though ferocious beasts should not
exist in the snow mountain at night especially when their spot was near to residential areas, as a retiree
from the special forces, Michael still habitually raised his vignce in the setting and had implemented all
possible protective measures.
Lying on a pile of dried leaves, Alice could smell blood and a pungent smell of humid decay. She
struggled to lift her thermal underwear, thereafter found out that both her coat and thermal wear had
been torn apart by some sharp tools. Besides, there was a wound on her waist that had already been
dressed.
She remembered bringing a camera and taking pictures along a track in the afternoon by herself as she
was attracted by the beautiful scenery.
However, the further she went, the more picturesque the view, and she was so carried away while taking
pictures that she had even forgotten about going back. By the time she turned around, she found herself
in a vast expanse of white snow and could not remember the direction in which she came from, and thus
was lost.
She then anxiously searched for the way back, but she identally stepped on something amidst the
hurry and rolled down the hill. Following that, she could feel an intense pain as her waist was pierced by
an object and thereafter she went into aa.
Now that Alice had recalled what happened, her first response was to ask in a panic, “Where’s my
camera?”
Meanwhile, Michael was lowering his head and focusing on sharpening the wooden sticks. The light was
dim in the cave as the bonfire was the only source of light. Alice could not see his expression clearly, nor
did she hear any response from him except a snort.
Not only did she nearly lose her life, but she almost cost me mine too, yet the first thing she looks for
upon gaining consciousness is her camera?
The cave was discovered by Michael. Few days ago, Celine went missing when she sneaked out with
the dogs to go ‘hunting’, and Michael anxiously found her hiding in this cave.
Since then, Michael kept in mind the location of this cave. Today when Alice went missing, he found her
near the cave, so she brought her there to dress her wound as the snow was heavy.
After that, there was nothing else the two of them could talk about.
At the same time, Alice realized that her camera was right next to her, and she breathed a sigh of relief.
She looked around the cave as the wind continued to howl outside. It was indeed a great spot to take
shelter from the blizzard, and the bonfire that was set up was keeping them warm.
Suddenly, Michael stood up and took the wooden stick outside to jab it into the ground, and thereupon
returned to the cave. After adding a few pieces of wood into the fire, hey down on afortable spot
and used his backpack as a pillow.
Meanwhile, Alice just came across the waste left over from dressing her wound, including a pair of sterile
gloves, gauze covered with blood and stitches that were still dripping with blood.
Struggling, she nudged her body, looked at Michael and said sincerely, “Thank you. If it wasn’t for you, I
might have already died.”
She would have died in the blizzard or from an infected wound. By the time the others discovered her on
the next day, she would have be a frozen body.
Remaining silent, Michael gave her a hand gesture, signalling that she was wee.
There was a warm feeling in Alice’s heart, and the pain from her wound seemed to be subsiding too. All
of a sudden, something crossed her mind and she said, “My phone is manufactured by Michel Group
too, and it is functionable under extreme weather. Let’s call for help!”
With his eyes closed, Michael murmured, “I didn’t see your phone.”
It was only then did Alice recall her taking out the phone and using it as apass when she was lost.
Surely, the phone had gone missing too when she slipped and rolled down the hill.
Unresigned, Alice asked, “Then what about yours?”
“I lost it too,” Michael answered in a short and concise manner.
At once, there was a deadly silence again.
Michael had already closed his eyes and was about to get some rest. Alice was five-feet-six-inches tall
and had a typical body size of a Caucasian woman. He had depleted quite some energy dragging her
into the cave, and so he had no desire to talk as he wanted to conserve his energy and stay alive.
Alice was getting nervous because of the howling wind amidst the blizzard, and the more nervous she
got, the more her wound hurt.
She was not as calm as Michael, and her panic became increasingly overwhelming. She asked Michael,
“Are we going to die here?”
A couple minutester, Michael answered with his eyes closed, “Stop overthinking. I’m familiar with this
area and we’ll leave once the blizzard is over. The nearest residential area is only two hours away from
here.”
Alice was finally relieved upon hearing these words, and the pain seemed to have alleviated as her body
was rxed.
Lying supine, she turned her head toward Michael and smiled. “You’re a kind man.”
Michael still did not respond.
Alice looked at her wound on her waist which had already been treated and stopped bleeding. Upon
thinking that Michael might have taken off her shirt to dress her wound, her face blushed and a strange
feeling aroused in her heart.
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There were always guys courting her, and she had dated a few decent men too. Among them included
gentlemen just like Michael, and other celebrities. Nevertheless, none of them had Michael’s attributes.
His charm of calmness and maturity was a huge temptation to all women.
She had witnessed him having a dispute with Sophia at the shooting scene yesterday too, and he was
like apletely different person thenpared to now.
The most attractive characteristic of this man who had gained billions of fans all over the world was not
his handsome appearance, but the mysterious aura of his soul.
There were only the two of them in the cave. A moment of passion aroused in Alice as the atmosphere
grew uncanny.
Alice stared at Michael fervently as she explicitly showed her affection toward him. Though his eyes were
closed, she knew he was not asleep.
“What’s on your mind, Taylor?”
Michael did not answer, nor was he asleep.
He was thinking of Sophia and Carmen.
Carmen would call him every night before she slept, and she wouldn’t go to sleep without calling her
father. No matter how busy he was, Michael would always give her a call on time.
And Sophia too… Where is she now? Is she still mad at me?