steal my heart

<7> Kiss Her

"Grace, what do you want to do
after getting out of prison? I want to
go to Erhai Lake, the beauty of Erhai
Lake is clear and clean. The water
birds there are very cute, the fish
and shrimps in Erhai Lake are very
delicious. The sky is bluer, the water
is clearer, even the sunshine is warmer
than this city."
"I will work hard to make money,
make a lot of money so that I can
run a small homestay there. I don't
want to make money, just want to
face the Erhai Lake every day, with
peace and flow. I don't want to make
a lot of money, as long as I have enough food and clothing. I can watch
backpackers come and go, come and go
occasionally."
"Grace, I seem to be dying. What
can I do? I haven't had time to take a
look at the beauty of Erhai Lake."
It was the sound of natural sadness
that Grace could not forget in her life.
She hugged the girl and kept using her
body temperature to warm up the girl's body which was gradually cold.
When the girl was dying, she stayed
in her arms, looked at a small piece of
sky outside the tiny bars of the prison
with the desire in her clear eyes. She
said, "Grace, I have not been to Erhai
Lake. The beauty of Erhai Lake is
what I saw on TV, in newspapers and
in magazines. I know that even if I get out of prison, I don't have the money
to open a small homestay in Erhai Lake.
I just want to have this impossible
dream when I am dying."
Up to now, Grace still remembered
the longing eyes of the girl in her arms
before she died.
Memories were still so painful that
the corners of Grace's eyes were
unknowingly wet. She stretched out
her hand and wiped it secretly. As
she was creeping on the ground, she
touched her left hip quietly, where
was empty, with one organ less than
normal.
Because of it, she couldn't drink.
She must live. She owed an unpayable debt. She was guilty and had not been
redeemed yet!
No!
She couldn't die yet!
Grace raised her head, looked at
Caden, shook her head, and said, "Mr.
Shaw, as long as you don't let me drink,anything is okay."
Anything...?
The man's falcon-like eyes narrowed, and the corners of his mouth
slowly turned upwards, "Anything is
okay?" He said with a hint of danger.
The eldest lady of the James
family, had thrown all her
self-confidence and arrogance away?
He wanted to see if the one in front
of him was still Miss James, the one in
his memory.
"Anything is okay except drinking."
"Okay!" There was a flash of
coldness fleeting on the man's face.
Then he clicked his fingers. With the
sound, a figure slowly walked out from
the dark corner, "Sir." The man was
dressed in a black suit, with a neat
and clean buzz cut bowed his head
respectfully at 90º. This person should
be Caden's bodyguard.
Grace looked at Caden in the
dim light in confusion. On the man's
perfect golden face, a bright smile like
a flower blossomed, and his thin lips
moved, "Kiss him.". Grace followed his slender fingers, and fixed her eyes on the silent bodyguard in black suit behind him...
Suddenly, her eyes widened!
"So? Can't you do it?" Caden's
playful laugh came in her ear, "Either
drink or start your performance here
right now."
It seemed that a basin of ice water
poured down from her head, Grace
could only feel extremely cold. Her
ears buzzed. She raised her head,
looked at the man like the king on the
sofa... what did he say?
Performance? Oh... Let her be
like a lady in the brothel, performing
ambiguous kiss scenes here?
She pursed her dry lips, it turned
out that her first kiss was so cheap.
Even if only fear and dread remained
for his feelings. Even if she had
cleaned up her feelings for him long
ago and buried them in her heart.
There was still a bit of hard and
irresistible pain came out of her heart.
She looked at Caden slowly. There
were neither coldness nor hatred nor
love, only the rich despair that could
not be overcome in her eyes!
Caden admired the despair in her
eyes happily. This woman... should
refuse his absurd request? Between
drinking and performing kissing scenes
with strange a man in public, any woman would choose the former, right?
Besides, she was Miss James before, the one who was arrogant and
proud.
"Can you change another one?"
After all, this was her first kiss. It
could be cheap in his eyes, but it was
still important to her.
She didn't want to lose her first
kiss in this way.
She already lost everything.
The man raised his wine glass and
said, "You are not qualified to bargain
with me." A cheerful smile evoked at
the corner of his mouth. He wanted to
see how humble and mean Miss James
could be!
"Okay, I see." Grace stood up blankly. Her legs were not very good.
After kneeling for a long time, there
was pain on her leg bones, and she
almost fell down again. She raised her
hand and hammered her knee a few
times to relieve the meridian. Then she limped to the bodyguard.
Because of her hammering her legs,
the men in the room only thought she
had been kneeling for a long time and
her legs were numb. Ruby knew that
the limping woman was suffering from
unbearable pain.
Ruby regretted it because she
implicated Grace
"Grace..." Ruby couldn't help
but speak. However, she was sternly
warned by the cynical Ingemar on the side, and she closed her mouth in
fright. Her eyes were full of regret.
However, she couldn't do anything but
to look at the poor woman who was
limping.
Grace looked dumbfounded, walked up to the bodyguard, took a deep breath. After a long while, she pretending to be calm, raised her arm and grabbed the shoulder of the black bodyguard.
She seemed calm, but the black-clothed bodyguard who was
closest to her, grasped by her
shoulders with both hands, clearly
noticed the trembling of Miss James in front of him.
Miss James, he also knew her.
But he still couldn't believe that the
embarrassed and humble woman in
front of hm was the arrogant and
energetic Miss James.
Standing on tiptoes, Grace's pale
lips, tremblingly leaned against the lips
of the black bodyguard...
Losing the first kiss wouldn't hurt
her, and the possibility that she would
not die after drinking that bottle of
wine was almost zero.
She wanted to live, first kiss, what
was it?
Caden looked complicated. She
chose the latter one in the end.
The man on the sofa squinted his
eyes. As his thin lips just opened, a
sudden voice at the door sounded,
"Hey, it's you? Why haven't you left?"
As soon as this sound rang, all the
people in the room followed the sound
and looked over. There was a tall man
coming in the room.
Grace shook and turned to look at
the door, "It's you..."
Ingemar looked at the tall man at
the door, and then at Grace. He smiled,
"Oh, Franklin, you know her. That's
weird. A cleaner is worth knowing you?
Ingemar touched his chin, showing
that he was having fun watching it.
Caden's gaze also fell on Franklin. A
faint darkness was under her eyes.
Franklin didn't care that these
people's eyes fell on him, he looked at
Grace weirdly... what did the woman
want to do? How did it look like she was about to kiss Caden's bodyguard?
Blinking indifferently, Franklin
sketched a smile, "Oh, it's strange,
just after I left, this room became
lively." Franklin put his hand in his suit
trouser pocket, walked towards Grace
lazily, and asked as he walked, "What
are you doing?"

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I have exams from next week...
Soo I ll do a double update today
Enjoy 🥳🥳
Take care
I purple you 💜
Stay safe