Chapter 22: The Trip Ended Earlier Than Planned
During the entire way back to the luxury apartment, Samson did not dare to turn his head to look at Lucasta because every time he looked into her eyes, his heart beat wildly.
In his mind, he kept reminding himself that the lovely girl sitting next to him was his sister. The relationship between them was brother and sister.
While Lucasta was thinking about planning for tomorrow night, Samson was thinking about that blurry photo.
He knew that if he told her now that they were going back to the castle tonight, she would probably get angry, so he kept quiet, let her go back to the castle, and then she could scream whatever she wanted.
– Samson, I want ice cream.
– You have eaten many dishes today. Your stomach will hurt if you continue to eat.
– Samson, tomorrow night, please take me to the river with many electric lights.
– There’s nothing special there.
He finished talking for a long time but did not hear her reply.
Because he was surprised, he glanced to the side, and he realized she was talking in a dream.
Perhaps she was too tired after a day of touring the city that she fell asleep.
Those crimson lips reminded him of the kiss just now. Honestly, he didn’t know how to face her anymore.
Because Lucasta was sleeping, as soon as Samson returned to the apartment complex, he left her in the car and called Maris down to go back to the forest.
The sky was pulling dark clouds, and he was afraid that if he departed late, Lucasta would get wet in the rain and get sick.
– Where’s Lucas? – Harvey leaned over to look behind Samson and asked.
– She is sleeping in the car. Harvey. We will go now. – Samson’s voice became urgent.
As soon as Maris heard Samson’s voice, she appeared with the bags of the three of them, because he had told her about this plan in the afternoon.
She saw Harvey’s bewildered face, so she immediately explained.
– The TV broadcasts about the three black figures moving extremely fast, so we need to return to the forest to avoid involving many people. I was going to tell you, but you stayed in your room, so I didn’t dare disturb your rest.
– Since when are you so polite? Just knock on the door.
– I’m staying at your house, so I have to be polite.
Samson took the bags from Maris’s hand and turned his back to walk away.
The two of them also followed behind him.
Harvey found Samson’s hurried look very much like a manager named Jemaine.
He was a super frugal gentleman. Although he had an enormous property, he did not hire a maid or a driver. He did everything himself.
There were afternoons when Harvey was driving home and accidentally witnessed Jemaine carrying two children out of the school gate.
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The people in the company said that because he did not allow his wife and daughter to hire a maid, they put all the work on him because they were both busy with their work.
Harvey secretly blamed Samson because he always liked to torment himself.
Because the two of them didn’t see each other often, the guy easily noticed that his friend had lost a lot of weight.
Isn’t being a rich single gentleman better than being someone else’s brother?
The car continued to leave the building and headed straight for the haunted forest.
When the car came to the broken road, Lucasta woke up.
She yawned and looked out on the sides of the road and she saw a lot of trees, only car lights but no street lights.
– Where are we going? She reached out her hand to the person next to her and asked.
– Return to the castle.
The strange voice startled Lucasta, and she immediately turned to the person beside her.
She widened her eyes in surprise when she saw Samson had turned into Harvey.
Her brother was driving, so why was Harvey seizing his place?
– Lucasta, I’m sitting here. Samson said because he saw her rubbing her eyes constantly.
– Miss Maris. Oh, what’s going on? Where is this? – Lucasta yelled in panic.
– Lucasta, I need to go back to feed the owls, I suddenly remembered that I didn’t prepare food for them. They have been hungry since yesterday until now.
Maris quickly lied because she knew the blonde loved her owls very much.
If it wasn’t for Samson, who hated them so much that he hid in his room, Lucasta would have taken them to the castle to play with her every day.
As Maris had expected, Lucasta immediately sympathized.
– They will probably be very sad. Too pitiful. I just finished eating and I’m still hungry. How can the owls endure hunger?
Lucasta finished talking to Maris, then turned to Harvey and asked him if the car had nearly reached the edge of the woods.
In the backseat, Samson nodded to Maris as a thank you.
After a few months since Lucasta appeared in Samson’s life, he thanked others in a human-like way, not using material things to give to Maris anymore.
Maris herself liked this very much. At least, she felt that she and he were like real neighbors.
– We’ve arrived. Goodbye, Lucasta. Be obedient and obey your brother. Next month, I will buy a lot of delicious food for you.
Harvey said as he took out a box from his shirt pocket and gave it to Lucasta. He also told her that inside was a brooch.
Although he always worried that she would be detrimental to Samson’s peaceful life, he also felt that she was also very pitiful because she did not have relatives by her side.
Besides, when she ran down the stairs at Aurora’s house and took his hand, she gave him a little warmth.
This brooch is to thank her for the warm feeling in those few seconds.
– Thank you, Mr. Harvey. I wish you a nice evening. – She leaned over and kissed him on the cheek.
– Thank you.
For thousands of years, no girl dared to kiss Harvey on the cheek, so he was extremely embarrassed.
He also did not know how Samson taught Lucasta that she innocently gave a kiss as a thank you.
Had she been kissing Samson on the cheek repeatedly during the last ten years?
Samson’s flame-like gaze was reflected in the rearview mirror.
He was annoyed when Lucasta kissed another man, even if that person was Harvey.
Just because she was given a brooch, she smiled so much that both of her teeth were exposed, but yesterday, he bought her countless dresses, clothes, shoes, and hats that she still sulked.
The moment the car left, returning the silence to the forest, Lucasta felt very sad.
She couldn’t see anything except the two people standing beside her.
Tonight, the clouds have covered the moon and there is no light left to illuminate the old forest, only a pitch black color.
– Samson, I can’t see anything. – She took his hand and whispered.
– Let me carry you. Close your eyes. When we get there, I’ll call you.
Lucasta obediently nodded and hugged Samson’s neck.
She closed her eyes, laid comfortably on his sturdy back, and felt his every step.
The fragrant breath bearing the gentle scent of a young girl constantly blew on Samson’s neck, causing him to numb his whole body.
Lucasta’s cabin kiss haunted him every second.
The moment she smelled the scent of the queen of night flowers, even though she knew she had arrived, she still closed her eyes and lay still on Samson’s back.
She told herself to wait until he spoke, then she would slide down.
She didn’t understand why, but after she kissed him, she wanted to be closer to him even more.
– Lucasta, we’re back at our house. – Samson called to her when he had finished lighting the candles in the castle.
– Carry me to the room. – She rubbed her head on his back, cooing.
– We’re standing in your room already. Are you still closing your eyes?
She quickly opened her eyes and realized that this was indeed her room. However, she still wanted to torment him a little more.
She wanted her troubles to make him haunt and call her name in his dreams. Only then will she be able to defeat Eirlys.
– You put me on the bed.
– Ok. He obediently obeyed like a puppet controlled by her.
– Take off my shoes.
– Ok. He knelt and helped her take off her shoes as if a bodyguard were taking care of his princess.
– Help me lie down.
– Can’t you lie down on your own? Even though he grumbled, he still complied with her wishes.
– You put a blanket on me.
Lucasta’s chubby cheeks and pursed lips let Samson know she was teasing him.
Perhaps because he had fulfilled her desire to set foot in the city, she became happier and more relaxed.
Because she tormented him from earlier until now, he also wanted to tease her back.
After he pulled the blanket up to her neck, he slowly lowered his head, trying to bump her forehead to hurt her a little.
However, before he could carry out his plan, she sat up and kissed him on the lips.
– Lucasta, you shouldn’t kiss other people’s lips like this. – Samson pushed her away and spoke sternly.
– I kissed my brother. I don’t kiss anyone else. – She stubbornly protested.
– I mean, you can’t kiss like that, even if it’s me.
– Why?
– Because… because that kiss is not as friendly as a cheek kiss.
– You mean we should kiss each other on the cheek, right?
– Right. We should kiss on the cheek.
When he finished speaking, he noticed Lucasta looking at him. And then she jumped up, wrapped her arms around his neck, and kissed him on the cheek, making him immobilized again.
The kisses on the right cheek, and then the left cheek made him unable to see anything.
It took a while before he could regain his composure and grabbed her shoulders and pushed her away.
She lost her momentum and fell back onto the bed, but her eyes were wide open and her lips were still smiling.
Because Samson was so flustered that he couldn’t think anymore, he grabbed the blanket, pulled it up and covered her head, and ran out of the room.
Samson didn’t know what kind of food Lucasta ate wrong that she suddenly became so strange.
He closed the door tightly as soon as he entered the room.
Lucasta’s figure seemed to be beside him. Every time he closed his eyes, he would see that face and that smile appear.
He raised his hand and touched his lips, reminiscing about the moment at the top of the Ferris wheel.
– Lucasta, can we fall in love? If you keep acting like this, what should I do? I don’t want to lose you the way I lost Eirlys.
The faint sigh in the darkened room evinced Samson’s current melancholy mood.
He doubted he seemed to have fallen in love with Lucasta already.
Those feelings can only be love.
He was happy when she was happy, sad when she was sad, frustrated when she was angry, worried when something happened to her, and jealous when he saw her being intimate with another man.
He understood that she only saw him as a biological brother and that those kisses were only meant to show her deep affection for him, but his heart had been drowned by her in the quagmire of love again.