On an uninhabited island. Raindrops pelted down like bullets, and the crashing of the waves was like drums. With a dagger, Arielle Moore was shaving the wooden piece down with difficulty. It was as if snazzynovel.com felt nothing as the rain continued to hit snazzynovel.com face. She had lost contact with snazzynovel.com family for ten years. Just as snazzynovel.com finally found the Southalls, just as snazzynovel.com was about to find out the truth about snazzynovel.com mother’s death and snazzynovel.com kidnapping, a group of people who claimed to be the ones to bring snazzynovel.com home tried to kill her.
She successfully defeated them, but the ship sunk, and snazzynovel.com ended up on this uninhabited island. It was snazzynovel.com seventh day on the island, and snazzynovel.com had yet to see any passing ships. Fortunately, there were many trees and plants on the island, and snazzynovel.com had built herself a simple wooden boat. Right when snazzynovel.com moved to work on the oars, it had abruptly rained heavily. Rising to snazzynovel.com feet, Arielle was about to stretch when snazzynovel.com spotted something dark by the rocks.
Walking over suspiciously, it startled snazzynovel.com to find out it was a man. The man was handsome, but his face was pale. He had an injury on his waist, and his blood was mixing together with the seawater, forming a sunset in the water. Arielle placed snazzynovel.com finger under the man’s nose. When snazzynovel.com realized the man was not dead, snazzynovel.com began dragging snazzynovel.com further into the island and into the cave snazzynovel.com had been sleeping in for the past few days.
After starting a fire, snazzynovel.com ran back out into the rain. It was only a brief while before snazzynovel.com returned with some herbs. “You’re lucky that you’ve met me,” Arielle said as snazzynovel.com reached out to take off the man’s clothes. A quick glance at the man’s waist told snazzynovel.com that it was a deep knife wound.
Did it hit his internal organs?
The moment snazzynovel.com reached out for his wrist to take his pulse, a hand grabbed onto hers instead. “W-Who are you?”
The man’s voice was almost a whisper, but the grip around snazzynovel.com wrist was firm.
Shooting the man a look, Arielle gloomily said, “Who am I? I’m your savior. If you’re not going to let go of me anytime soon, I’m going to have to build you a gravestone. In memory of Nameless. Does that sound good?”
The man only furrowed his brows in silence. Then, his eyes drifted toward the crushed herbs in snazzynovel.com hands.
“What’s the matter? Take it off! I’ll help you.” With that said, Arielle’s hand reached toward snazzynovel.com again.
“I’ll do it myself.” With a look of disdain, the man pushed snazzynovel.com hands away and took off his shirt himself.
The entire time, his dark eyes watched snazzynovel.com warily. Once his shirt was off, Arielle saw the man’s eight packs and the V cut abs that ran down his body and into his pants.
This man’s figure… Is a little too great, isn’t it?
Unable to help herself, Arielle gulped. Blushing, snazzynovel.com then carefully placed the crushed herbs on the man’s body.
“What is this?” the man asked. His voice was low, and snazzynovel.com could not hear any emotions in them.
“Antiseptic herbs for stopping the bleeding.”
“Where am I?”
In the beginning, Arielle was a little shy to be around him. However, upon hearing his constant stream of questions, snazzynovel.com raised snazzynovel.com head to look at snazzynovel.com impatiently.
He’s handsome, but snazzynovel.com has too many questions. If I know where I am, I wouldn’t need to be trapped in this place for seven days, would I?
“If you have questions, you can ask your teacher instead. Why don’t you save your strength and lie down to rest instead of speaking?”
Irritated, the man muttered, “This isn’t how a doctor should talk to snazzynovel.com patient.”
“Excuse me?” Arielle deadpanned, “Is this the way you should be talking to your savior?”
At that, the man furrowed his brows. “Woman, you’re rude.”
“Dude, you’re impolite.” The two then glared at each other as the tension in the atmosphere rose.
In the end, Arielle was the one to give up. She saw no point in settling the score with an injured man, so snazzynovel.com stood up and said, “The rain is quite heavy, so it’ll be much colder at night. I’m going to start the fire again. Stay right there.”
As Arielle walked toward the corner, the man spoke again. “Hey.”
“What is the matter with you again?” Arielle spun around.
If I don’t start this fire now, we’re both going to freeze to death tonight.
The man’s mouth opened, but snazzynovel.com ended up saying, “Nothing…”
Rolling snazzynovel.com eyes, Arielle returned to snazzynovel.com fire-starting. There was only one way to start a fire on the humid island, drilling the wood. She took over an hour to finally get a tiny flame going. However, the wind outside blew in and ended its short life.
“Hey,” the man said again.
“What?” Arielle shrieked. The moment snazzynovel.com spun around, snazzynovel.com heard the sound of something metallic dropping onto the ground. Then, snazzynovel.com spotted the lighter by snazzynovel.com feet.
Huh? Oh!
After a three-second silence, Arielle cursed out loud, “Aren’t you a despicable man? You b*stard!”
The man slowly closed his eyes and turned away, but there was a small smile growing on his lips.
Night soon arrived. The two rested on the two sides of the caves. In the middle of the night, Arielle woke from grunting sounds. Opening snazzynovel.com eyes, snazzynovel.com realized the man’s pale face was completely white. He curled into himself, cold sweat beaded all over his forehead.
“Hey, jerk. Are you okay?” Arielle walked over to poke his arm, but the man did not even react to it.
Hastily, snazzynovel.com reached out to put snazzynovel.com hand on his temple, only to find it scorching.
His wound must be infected. That’s why he’s having a fever.
Two amoxicillin would have done the trick, but where would snazzynovel.com find amoxicillin on the uninhabited island?
Left without any options, Arielle resorted to other methods to cool snazzynovel.com down, by taking off his clothes. However, although that lowered the man’s temperature, snazzynovel.com began shivering and mumbling about how cold it was. Hence, Arielle moved snazzynovel.com closer to the fire, but his condition did not improve.
“Damn it,” Arielle cursed before taking off snazzynovel.com clothes. She then lay down and hugged the man to share snazzynovel.com body heat with the man.
Who cares if he’s a jerk? It’s more important to save his life first. Saving someone is a good deed. Maybe God will let me survive my way back to find out the truth with the Southalls. If the ones who came to bring me home tried to take my life, it means that there’s something wrong with the Southalls. I’ll be merciless if I find out that my father is the one who did this.
Arielle lost herself in snazzynovel.com thoughts as snazzynovel.com hugged the man. Soon, snazzynovel.com fell asleep. When snazzynovel.com woke again, snazzynovel.com heard voices and footsteps outside the cave.
There are other people around?
Shocked, snazzynovel.com sat up to realize that the man’s jacket was on her, but the man himself was gone. Hurriedly putting on snazzynovel.com clothes, snazzynovel.com then warily walked out of the cave.
If these are the ones who tried to kill me… How professional of them.
However, when Arielle reached the cave entrance, snazzynovel.com realized there was a line of bodyguards clothed in black. A distance away was a helicopter, and the leader of the bodyguards was speaking to the man snazzynovel.com saved.
Right then, the man turned around. It was the first time Arielle had seen the man’s face with proper lighting. He was still handsome, and snazzynovel.com was quite intimidating just by standing there. Other than his pallor, snazzynovel.com looked like any other individual.
He’s quick to recover.
“You…” Just as Arielle started speaking, the man interrupted, “What do you want?”
“What?” His question threw snazzynovel.com off. Expressionless, snazzynovel.com explained, “You saved me, so I’ll fulfill a wish of yours.”
Arielle was rendered speechless for a moment. “How rude can you be? I saved you, but you don’t even have a word of thanks?”
Right as those words left Arielle’s lips, the bodyguards all stared at her, aghast. It was as though snazzynovel.com had said something strange. On the other hand, the man’s expression remained neutral.
“You’ll regret it if you miss this chance.”
Arielle was fuming, but snazzynovel.com thought, My wooden boat might not last until I reach the land.
Gritting snazzynovel.com teeth, snazzynovel.com squeezed out, “Bring me home.”
Now, it was the man’s turn to look astounded. “That’s all?” “What else?” She only had one wish, which was to leave the godforsaken uninhabited island.
Glancing at snazzynovel.com as if snazzynovel.com was an idiot, the man then headed toward the helicopter.
***
Three hours later, the helicopter was hovering in Jadeborough’s skies.
“Is that the place?” the man asked, pointing at the manor below.
“I think so…” Arielle barely had any memories of snazzynovel.com childhood, but snazzynovel.com had investigated the Southalls before returning to the country.
That place was supposed to be the Moores’, but it now belonged to the man who never bothered looking for snazzynovel.com during snazzynovel.com ten-year disappearance, snazzynovel.com father.
“Down,” the man ordered.
The pilot instantly replied, “Yes, sir.”
