Edie had known this man for six years. But she never heard about this.
This man never showed any weakness in front of her. She never expected he had this problem.
Edie didn’t care whether he was pretending or not. She was so worried about him. So she stood the pain and walked to him to grab his hands.
His hands were so cold now. Edie could not feel any warmth from his palm. His hands were also sweating,
His fingers got hard as if they were frozen. It took Edie quite a while to hold his fingers.
"Where is your mobile phone?"
"In my car,"
"Could you walk now?" Edie sounded worried.
"...Sorry."
Edie heard about claustrophobia. It was a ntal disease that was mostly caused by experience in childhood. Edie didn’t know what experience caused this. Stuart has been through lots of terrible things in his childhood. Maybe his childhood was the cause.
"When did you have this?"
Stuart fell into silence for a while and said in a slow voice, "When I stayed in William’s organization. Because of this, I could no longer take up any missions. It was also because of this that I was forced to quit the organization."
Edie felt sorry for him.
Stuart was only a ten-year-old young boy when he joined the organization. He was forced to see those bloody and terrifying scenes every day. He must be under great ntal pressure every day.
Edie was worried that he might have other symptoms. She touched his forehead. He got a slight fever.
Edie held him into her arms imdiately and padded on his back constantly and said in a gentle voice, "Don’t be scared. I am here. Those have passed. It is just your nightmare now. Don’t think about it. Think about sothing happy to distract yourself. Don’t pay attention to your body’s reaction. Don’t sweat...."
Edie could not think about anything now. She didn’t even know what she was talking about at the mont. All she wanted was to make Stuart relax. She wanted Stuart not to think about those terrible experiences.
At the mont, she kept comforting Stuart, like a kid in panic.
Seeing this, Stuart felt warm at the bottom of his heart. He felt more relaxed.
If Edie was not staying with him right now, he might already be in a coma now. But now he could still see the outline of Edie clearly,
Her palm-size face and delicate body.
He pressed his thin lips on her lips without any hesitation to stop her murmuring.
Edie was so nervous. She was also scared of darkness. But she still pretended to be easy and tried to comfort Stuart.
She was so worried about Stuart right now. If anything happened to Stuart tonight, she would feel regretful for a life.
But she never expected that he could kiss her at the mont.
He got deeper and deeper, step by step.
Gradually she felt it was hard to take a breath. She gradually fell into his arms. She felt his body getting warr. His fingers got flexible. He could even insert his fingers into her long hair.
"..."
Wow, so she could kiss him to help him recover. Was Stuart really scared?
Edie was so focusing on this that she forgot to take a breath. She didn’t take a breath until Stuart loosened her.
She started panting hard, like a thirsty fish.
Seeing this, Stuart couldn’t help himself frowning. He hit on her head slightly and said angrily, "You are not focusing just now. What are you thinking about?"
"Are you really sick now?" Edie still felt really incredible.
"You ask to do sothing to distract myself, so I did, it works well on ."
"Well..." Edie found no word to reply to him. What a crap excuse. "I believe you fake it. You freak out, you liar."
He could talk and kiss now. He looked perfectly fine now.
when Edie was about to leave him, Stuart started talking in an indifferent voice
"I could not chase after you now. If you leave, you leave alone in the darkness."
Hearing these words, Edie froze imdiately.
"So, are you really going to leave ?"
Was she really going to leave him alone in the darkness?
Could she do this?
Could she manage to do this?
After hesitating for a while, she said, "Where is the car key? I need to take your mobile phone. We need to get out."
"Don’t leave ."
Stuart said in a little fragile voice.
All of a sudden, Edie’s heart was tendered.
She turned around and said, "All right, then."
In the darkness, Edie couldn’t see the smile at the corner of the man’s mouth. Ivan was right. It really worked on Edie.
Besides, he was not lying. He just exaggerated the fact. He could not move now. But he had no symptoms. He beca much better compared with what he looked like in the darkness before.
They sat on the floor together in the darkness.
"Do you get a fever?" she asked him.
"You can touch my forehead," Stuart said,
Edie curled her mouth helplessly and reluctantly touched his forehead. His forehead was a little hot. But it was not severe now.
Edie took so issues out of her pocket and dried the sweat on his forehead.
"Wait for a mont; it might be a temporary power cut."
"I wish it can last for a longer ti. Then I can stay with you for a longer ti."
Stuart said sincerely and held her into his arms.
Edie got unpleasant, "Do you look like a patient."
"I am a man, don’t you like it?"
He said at a slow speed.
Edie wondered why the light was turned off all of a sudden. But she could not check. So she had no choice but to wait with Stuart.
As minutes went by, she felt so sleepy.
His arms were so warm. She couldn’t help herself wanting to stay in his arms for a longer ti. But she realized she was still angry with him. She could not do this at this point. It was so shaless.
Laty was right. She needed to teach this man a lesson. Otherwise, he might make more mistakes in the future.
Therefore, she preferred to bear the coldness alone. She held her knees tightly with two hands and buried her head into her knees to refuse his approaching. She forced herself to keep a distance away from him,
Seeing this, though Stuart could not see her face in the darkness, he could imagine the anger on his face.
He shook his head slightly. He couldn’t watch her bear the coldness alone. He didn’t know how other couples deal with conflicts in such a situation. But he would not leave her there. He was not able to do this.
He preferred to stand low in front of her rather than leaving her there alone.
He held her into his arms. This movent freaked her out. She started trembling hard. She pushed against him on his chest.
It seed that she was so scared of approaching him.
What?
Was she worried that she might not be able to control herself?
"You want to approach ? Why do you control yourself?" He said in a peaceful voice.
"What? Don’t dream of it. I never want to approach you. I am perfectly fine these days. I have learned to be independent and strong now. Don’t underestimate , okay?"
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