When Edie was hesitating what she could say at the mont, Stuart raised the corner of his mouth and held her into his arms, rubbing her long curl soft black hair with his big hands and said, "Don’t worry. You are the top one in my heart. No one can catch up with you. Edie, co with . I want to give you sothing."
When he said the last sentence, he looked quite serious. Then he stood up and held her hands, walking towards the ward.
Edie froze slightly. But she didn’t say anything.
After they arrived at the ward, Deik walked out. Seeing Stuart, he said in a respective voice, "Sir, I’ve brought it here."
"Okay," he said and opened the box on the tea table.
Edie saw...
A gun! When Stuart took the gun out and gave it to her, Edie felt the gun was so heavy. When she held the gun, she couldn’t control her hands trembling.
"I have looked for this for a long ti. This is a relatively light and powerful gun, with nineteen bullets in it. This is the extra bomb loader for an ergency. I saw a large field in the hospital garden. We can practice there. With silencing equipnt, we won’t make any noise."
"Why do you.... why do you give this?" Edie looked at him confusingly.
"Protect yourself. I don’t want you to be hurt. So, please,"
He held her hands tightly and put her hands on his heart, "I don’t want to lose you again. I don’t want to go through that pain again. One ti is enough for . If I lose you again, I might really die. I don’t believe I can put up with that pain."
Lose her again...
Pain...
His words were warm, touching her skin. She couldn’t help herself nodding.
She would protect herself well.
Stuart took her to the garden. This place was in-patient departnt before. After the departnt was transferred, no one took after the garden anymore.
There was so debris here. No one would co to this place.
Stuart’s wound was inflad. He couldn’t go back now. Laty would worry about him. So he decided to stay in the hospital for a few more days.
He demonstrated the movent and then held her hands and put her hands on the trigger, letting her target at the aim.
Edie’s hands were trembling all the ti. Though it was just a target in front of her, she thought it was an alive man, staring at her pitifully and begging her not to shoot at him.
If she learned to shoot and took the gun with a bullet in it, did that an she would kill soone one day?
Would she?
Would her hands be covered with blood?
When thinking about this, Edie felt so cold inside. She took her hands back imdiately, throwing the gun on the floor.
"I could not do that.... shall we need to do this? Let’s leave the Yates, all right? We can take our daughter and leave the mansion. No one could stop us. All right?"
Before she finished, Stuart interrupted her.
"Edie, I couldn’t control my life."
He lowered down to pick up the gun and wiped the dusk away, fixing his eyes on her. The expression on his face was complicated.
"Five years ago, I wanted to go to heaven with you. But my family needed . The group needed . I want to kill myself. But I could not. If I couldn’t defeat Ellison and the board of directors, I would never be able to get rid of that horrible hell. I never think about escaping away. But now I have to think. Besides, L.N’s power covered the whole world. Where could we go? If they need Laty to be their puppet, they would definitely find us. I don’t want you to be scared or frightened anymore. So all I could do now is to settle them to protect you."
He said word by word, in a stable and determined voice. His eyes looked cold slightly. At the mont, he looked scary.
Edie kept panting. She found no word to refute him.
He walked towards her, giving her the gun. Then he held her hands, raising her hands and aiming at the red heart in a distance.
"To protect our daughter. I want her to live a better life."
Protect our daughter.... I want her to live a better life...
These words kept ringing in her mind, like a curse.
Finally, she made a bitter smile. She turned around, hugging Stuart tightly.
She said in a soft low guilty voice,
"Sorry. I don’t know this. I made it difficult for you. If it is not for , you won’t take the risk over and over again. Stuart, I am really useless. I am a coward. I am so scared of killing. But as long as you want to do it, I am willing to try it. But I am still scared.... hug ...please...."
She said the last sentence so carefully. It sounded like a fog, fading in the wind.
She was nothing more than an ordinary girl. But she t a powerful man.
He lived in hell. She dragged him out. From then on, they were tied tightly together.
They were a couple. They got courage from each other.
Hearing these words, Stuart touched her hair and said, " Sorry for bringing you into my world and throwing you into danger. It is that should apologize to you."
Edie’s tears fell down. She tried the best to hold all her tears back.
She couldn’t cry now.
She didn’t have to cry for anything.
The man loved her so much. It was her luck.
She wiped her eyes and took a deep breath, " It is just shooting. It is not difficult for . I am quite smart. Don’t worry. I would master it soon. I promise you I would protect our daughter and ."
She cald herself down and held the gun tightly, pressing the trigger with her index finger.
Bang!
Edie heard the sound.
Edie had otherwise excellent vision. Perhaps it was her work as a photographer, it was quite easy for her to focus. She almost shot the red heart in the middle.
After shooting, she felt so depressed.
Though she didn’t kill anyone, she felt a yoke on her heart.
The bore was still hot. When Edie touched the bore, the sweat in her palm evaporated imdiately.
Her hands were still shaking.
Stuart held her hands tightly with his big hands and said, "I don’t want you to use it if not necessary."
"Okay. I would practice more."
This ti, Stuart didn’t help her.
The wound on his shoulder and back didn’t allow him to raise his hands for a long ti. So he stopped helping her.
Edie shot more and more accurately. Finally, she even started learning to shoot at a moving target.
As ti went by, Edie beca better and better at shooting.
One day, Stuart left for inspection. No one stayed with her in the garden. After finishing the practice, she went back. Suddenly her phone rang. It was from a strange number.
"Hi," before Edie asked about the na, she heard a quite familiar voice.
"Long ti no see, sister. Do you still rember ?"
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