Nicole raised her head. The rain still obscured her vision, and she desperately tried to keep her eyes open. She reached out her hand and felt someone in front of her.
Before Nicole could withdraw her hand, somebody had grabbed it. Nicole then found herself in the arms of someone she could barely recognize under the merciless rain.
She then scented the man that now held her tightly. No doubt it was Kerr.
"Director Ning!" Jared called out through the rain.
Feeling Nicole falling forward, Jared couldn't help screaming. When he stepped forward, he found her in Kerr's arms and shut up.
"Who allowed you to come here?"
Kerr hurriedly took off his suit jacket and put it over Nicole's head. Even in the darkness, he could see her bright eyes clearly. He could feel that she was already drenched from the rain.
How could she have possibly gone here in such bad weather?
"I..."
Leaning against Kerr, Nicole struggled to say something but could not. The pouring rain and raging wind made explaining very difficult and uncomfortable.
Nicole's faith on finding Kerr alive and well was what kept her going through this cold, wet hell and back. Now that Kerr was in front of her, her knees buckled with relief.
She desperately grabbed onto Kerr to keep herself from falling.
"It's all right. I got you."
Kerr helped Nicole up. He could see his car's headlights flickering not far away, so he carried her in his arms and walked toward the car.
Ken saw Kerr and Nicole through the rain and hurried back to the car to open the door for them.
"Do you have any dry clothes in here?" Kerr asked Ken.
He threw his jacket aside.
He proceeded to untangle Nicole gently out of her raincoat, feeling Nicole's cold skin against his.
"No, I don't. But there are dry bath towels at the back."
Ken raised the temperature
Drugged one night by her ex-boyfriend, a mysterious man took advantage of her in an ecstatic night filled with sex.
To take her revenge, she married the man, and used him.
"As long as I'm alive, I'm still his legal wife, while all of you are just his mistresses."
She remained adamant even when he was involved in scandals with other women.
Eventually she stormed off after she learned that he had betrayed her again.But life brought her back to him a few years later, to his astonishment.
ate stare.
"Hush now. Listen to me. You and Jay are my world now. I don't care who Jay's real father is and what happened between you and him. I can't help feeling jealous of course.
I'm jealous because he had you, but at the same time, I'm glad that he lost you. And now I have you. I love you, Nicole, and I'm prepared to love everything about you including your son. I know you worry about him.
Please let me share that burden. Let me be a father to Jay so that he would no longer be a child without a father."
As far as Kerr knew, Nicole had not chosen anyone to spend the rest of her life with because of her son, Jay. He wanted to set her mind at ease and let her know that he would surely love her son too.
"I feel cold..."
Nicole reached out and hugged Kerr tightly, burying her face in his arms. Warm tears flooded her face, drenching Kerr's shirt.
Love was a weakness for Nicole the way it was for Kerr.
Before she met Kerr, she had endured all the hardships alone. She had not cried in a long time, not even when she gave birth to her son.
Not until now that she was locked inside Kerr's loving embrace. She sobbed against Kerr's chest. She wanted to tell him the truth and be the woman by his side.
Visit freewe𝑏nov(e)l.𝗰𝐨𝐦 for the 𝑏est n𝘰vel reading experience