"Help... help... "
Karin is very panic, desperately struggling to escape. Although the light is off, but with the moonlight
outside the window going through, she could tell the man is a middle-aged man, with a fine physique.
"Don't say a word... be a good boy and go to sleep... I'm going to sleep too... don't disturb me..."
The man burbles about nothing, Karin is so scared that her face turns pale. It is the first time for her to
encounter this kind of thing in her thirty years life. Her brain is blank, she doesn’t say anything, not be
too scared, but is afraid that her daughter is sleeping in the next room, if she really provokes this
madman, the consequences must be unimaginable.
He covers her mouth, she could not say anything, so she nods heavily, meaning she would not yell for
help.
The man knows she would not yell, but he doesn’t let her go, and drags her towards the living room,
probably because it is too dark, he hits the water dispenser, then the water dispenser falls to the
ground with a violent sound. Karin’s heart beats fast, and after a while, the light in her daughter's room
is on...
"Ah..."
Esme is woken up by the loud noise from the living room, and runs out of her room barefooted in
pajamas, then she sees her mother is kidnapped by a man, strangling her neck and covering her
mouth. The little girl has never seen this scene before, and cries out instantly.
The man hears the cries and rushes forward angrily, freeing one hand to strangle Esme’s neck, "Don’t
cry!"
Karin's eyes widen in horror, the man's strength is too strong, she sees her daughter is strangled that
her face turns red, she suddenly gets mad and is trying to escape from the man. She fiercely bite on
the man’s arm, and his blood quickly oozes out. He screams in pain, and releases his hand that
strangles Esme’s neck.
"Esme run!!!"
Karin hysterically shouts at her daughter, and taking advantage of the moment when the crazy man is
relaxed, she turns around and pulls out a fruit knife from the refrigerator, "Do not come over, or I will
stab you to death!"
The man seems to be scared away, he doesn’t walk forward. Esme who falls on the ground finally
comes back to her senses, gets up and runs out of the house, and runs to the ninth floor directly, crying
and fiercely knocking the door of Troy's house.
"Hurry up... Uncle Troy, go to save my mother... "
Esme is crying out of breath, Troy is stunned for a while, then he quickly picks up Esme and runs to the
sixth floor.
When he arrives, the man has already snatched the knife into his hand and is grabbing Karin’s hair and
dragging her hard towards the door.
Troy at that moment feels the blood in his whole body is about to rush to the brain. Bang! A fist
smashes into the man's face. No matter how strong the man is, he in no way could beat Troy down.
Troy is pinning him to the ground, and beating him fiercely, not a while the man's face is full of blood...
Esme is hiding in her mother's arms shivering with fear, crying in a husky voice. Troy turns around to
check at the child, when he is about to walk over, suddenly the man lying on the ground raises the fruit
knife in his hand like a crazy man, Karin shouts, "Watch out!" Troy escapes, but the knife still cut his
shoulder.
The bright red blood flows down his white shirt, he is furious to the extreme, and gives the man a heavy
punch, then the man is completely unconscious.
Karin is trembling and gets to run to call the police.
Fifteen minutes later, the police comes to take the crazy man away, Karin and Troy also go to the police
station together.
After finishing their dictation, they learn from the police that the man is a stalker, and he has previously
stalked several single women, and has long been identified with a mental problem, this time he
escapes from the mental hospital, and the polices have looking for him for two days, and it is surprising
that he is hiding in Karin home.
When they leave the police station, it is already two o'clock in the morning, although the criminals have
been locked in the police station, Karin is still very scared, desperately wondering how come the
madman could sneak into her home. They drive back to home, Troy sees Karin is very concerned, he
then takes her to the security office, and asks for checking the surveillance video of recent days.
The first two days there are nothing unusual, the third day is last night, the surveillance video shows
Esme opens the door to go out, and the moment she leaves the home, a man sneaks into their home,
and that man, it is the crazy man that Karin meets tonight.
At that time she is taking a shower in the bathroom, Esme runs out of the house without closing the
door, the man is at that time sneaks into their home, and finds a place to hide.
Karin finishes watching the video and falls into a deep thought, Troy asks in surprise, "You are not
suspecting me that I plan all this, right?"
"What?"
"You are not suspecting me that I deliberately arrange someone to commit the crime so as to win you
two back, right?"
She gives him a meaningful glance, "I don’t think so, so you don't have to be guilty."
"Guilty?"
Troy wants to cry and laugh at the same time, he takes a long breath and walks away without looking
back.
Karin takes Esme back to home, and locks the door tightly. Esme is frightened and doesn’t dare to
sleep alone, so she takes her daughter to her room and soothes her for a while before she falls to
sleep.
It’s late at night, but she could not fall to sleep. She gets up and goes out of the bedroom to clean up
the messy living room, looking at the blood dripping on the floor, she thinks of Troy's wounded
shoulder, and wonders if he has taken care of it. She shakes her head and tells herself with certainty,
"he is not a child, he does not need others to worry about him."
After clearing up everything, she stands in front of the window, in addition to the residual panic in her
heart, it seems to be mixed with another emotion, hanging in her heart, that couldn’t let it go.
The image of him trying to save them comes to her mind as she closes her eyes, his left shoulder turns
red, and it is all because of her and her daughter that he gets injured. Would she be a heartless woman
if she ignores his injury?
She closes the window and wanders back and forth in the living room, hesitating to make a decision for
a while. She wants to check his wound, but is worried that this would make the two of them incessantly
confused, but if not, she always feels uneasy. She struggles for half an hour, and finally makes the
decision, she takes the medicine box and goes to the ninth floor.
After ringing the doorbell for a while with no response, she thinks he is asleep and is about to return
when the door opens.
When their eyes meet, they are speechless for a while. Sensing a hint of awkwardness, she speaks
first, "Have you cleaned your wound?"
"Who takes care of it for me?" He asks.
She replied angrily, "Can't you do it by yourself?"
"It's on the shoulder, not on the stomach, how can I reach it."
When he sees the medicine box in her hand, his eyes blink with surprise, and he welcomes her to
come in.
Karin puts the medicine box on the coffee table, seeing a pile of cigarette butts thrown in the ashtray of
the coffee table, she is stunned for a while, saying nothing. Then she goes into the bathroom to get a
basin of water, points to the sofa, "Sit down."
Troy sits down and unbuttons his shirt. His solid shoulder is cut wide and his entire back are stuck with
sticky blood, she frowns, twisting the towel in the basin and helping him to clean his wound. She is very
gentle, and her fingers touch his skin, his whole body shakes with a shock. His back is so straight, not
because of pain, but because it is too sensitive.
"You are injured because of me and Esme, that’s the reason I help you, so don't think too much about
it."
Karin feels the stiffness of his body and explains the purpose of her coming here.
"I know, you hate me so much, how dare I expect you to do it because you care about me."
Now that she knows he is not thinking too much, she gives a sigh of relief and continues to clean his
wound.
"Is Esme asleep?"
"Yes."
"Is the door locked?"
"Yes, it's locked."
"Are you injured?"
"No."
"Be careful from now on, and be sure to keep an eye out for any suspicious people around you."
"I know."
Their awkward conversation is like a public official interrogating a prisoner, Troy sighs slightly and softly
adds, "This is the third time you help me to take care of my wound."
She does remember it, just the first time, how long ago is it? Why in her memory, it seems to have
been very very long ago...
"If you can be by my side every time I get injured and clean my wound like this, then I would rather to
get injured for the rest of my life, even if my body is incomplete at the end, I will not hesitate."
"If you didn’t give up on me at that time, I will always be by your side, it is no need for you to keep us in
such a self-harming way."
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