Better Life Without You. novel Chapter 87

She was embarrassed.

After dinner, Carol Wright pushed Jack Walton out for a walk.

After the two of them left the lake, she said in a puzzled manner, "How strange."

"What's strange about that?"

"I felt that the person she liked was you, but seeing her together with Jack, I felt that it was very natural. The relationship between the two of them should also be pretty good, right?"

William Walton shifted his gaze from her face and looked at the dark lake in the distance.

Laura pursed her lips. She felt that she might have said something wrong, so she stopped wasting her breath.

The peaceful midsummer night, even if the two of them didn't speak, they just sat there like a painting.

The person in the painting, listening to the cicadas and frogs, blowing the hot summer breeze...

At that moment, it was an eternity to her.

In the years that followed, whenever she thought of that scene, she realized that it had truly been beautiful.

Carol Wright and the others would be back in half an hour.

She personally pushed Jack Walton. After went out for a walk, she was already sweating profusely.

She got William Walton and Laura Green to help her take care of Jack Walton, so she went ahead and took a bath herself.

Jack Walton and William Walton chatted for a while. Seeing that Laura Green did not speak, he asked: Miss Green, when do you and William plan to get married?

"Huh?" Laura froze for a moment. This ... Too far.

William Walton laughed: "Our plan is for this year, but if there's too much stuff going on this year, it might be delayed until next year."

"If that's the case, then... Shouldn't we meet your parents? Oh right, I still haven't asked around, what do Miss Green's parents do? "

She clenched her fist. "I ..."

She didn't know how to answer.

William Walton laughed: "Jack Walton, her mother is dead, so from now on, we'd better not mention this anymore."

Jack Walton nodded his head: "Miss Green, my apologies, I just asked something that I shouldn't have."

She smiled warmly, "It's alright. You didn't know it before."

Jack Walton raised his wrist to look at the time: "It's getting late, shouldn't we go back and rest?"

William Walton stood up, pushed Jack Walton's wheelchair and said to her: "You can go in first and tell second-sister-in law that I'm going to push Jack back. She can get prepared."

"Alright."

She entered the villa one step ahead of them.

Arriving at the door of Jack Walton's room, she knocked on it. No one answered.

She pushed the door open and stepped inside.

"Miss Wright."

Still, no one replied. She was curious, didn't Carol Wright say that she was going to take a bath? Why was there no one in the room?

She looked in the direction of the bathroom, hesitated for a moment, then walked over. As she walked, she asked, "Miss Wright?"

Still, no one answered.

She gently pushed open the bathroom door and looked inside.

Behind the thin, transparent white curtain, a huge white tub could be seen.

The tub was filled with water, and a layer of red rose petals floated on top, dark red like blood.

At the edge of the bathtub, there was a cup of red wine.

Carol Wright rested her wet hair on the bathtub and closed her eyes.

Upon seeing this sight, her legs softened and she staggered a step back.

In that instant, her mind flashed back to that stormy night five years ago.

The bathtub stained with blood, his lifeless mother, and the blood that flowed along the floor ...

She covered her ears, closed her eyes, and knelt on the ground, screaming like a madman.

She came to Jack Walton's front and half-squatted, her face filled with a grievance: "I don't know, I just fell asleep in the bathtub. I was woken up by Miss Green's screams, I don't know what happened, I really, I don't know."

Jack Walton looked at her, raised her hand, and gently caressed her head, patting her hand which was on his knee: "Don't worry, William will take care of this."

Carol Wright closed her eyes as tears welled up.

She was also shocked.

William Walton cupped his warm face with both hands and forced her to look at him.

"Laura. Open your eyes and look at me."

When William Walton's figure entered her line of sight, the scene in her mind was instantly torn apart.

She threw herself at him as if she was looking at her lifesaver, and hugged him tightly.

"William Walton..."

William Walton felt her fear.

He put one arm around her waist and the other behind her head on his shoulder.

The room seemed to have fallen into silence.

William Walton carried her and said to Jack Walton and the others, "I'll take her back, rest early for now."

Then he went upstairs first.

He put her on the bed after entering the room.

He half sat on the bed and gently caressed her forehead. "Are you willing to tell me what happened?"

She looked at him warmly and shook her head.

William Walton stroked her hair, "Then ... Do you want me to go out and be alone for a while? "

She still did not speak.

William Walton thought that she had tacitly agreed and stood up.

Just as he was about to leave, she reached out her hand to hold his sleeve tightly without letting go.