At this moment, the rumble steps and the sound of breaking in the room were heard from the hallway.
“What happened?” Venus Mu asked nervously.
Kerry Ye, failing to foster a bond with the baby in such a short time, turned around and said, “They
caught me suddenly appearing at the restaurant when I came into the villa.”
“Oh my God.” Exclaimed Venus. It was time for lunch, there must be a great number of astonished
people in the restaurant when witnessed him appeared and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
"Let's spare the details, I’m going to take you and the baby away first." As he was going to reach out to
hold the baby, the little guy suddenly crawled backward followed an overturning to avoid his touch.
Seeing that Kerry's fragile heart was struck hard by his son, Venus came up to extend her arms and
said gently, "Come here, babe."
The little guy rolled his big eyes, looking at Kerry then at Venus, and finally crawled towards the latter in
a reluctant way.
"Bang--" The door was suddenly kicked off, and the second they noticed Kerry’s presence, people
outside pulled their guns on him and shouted, "Don’t move!"
The baby was so frightened that he stayed still by the wall and refused to move. Upon seeing this,
Venus anxiously knelt down on the bed and tried to pull him out.
"Bang!" A gunshot rang out.
Kerry rushed to protect her in a flash but was shot on the left shoulder, and the spouting blood
splattered on her neck.
“Bang!” Another shot was heard, but this time, it was the guard at the door who lied down on the door.
Covering his bleeding shoulder with his hand holding the gun, Kerry fell to his knees with blood gurgling
from the hole like an open faucet.
The footsteps came from afar.
Venus covered his wound with her trembling hands and said in a shaky voice, "You should leave now,
we can escape together next time."
Kerry grabbed her wrist and said, "No, I'll save you out here."
Venus was on the verge of tears, "You're injured, you can't take us away! Even if you leave the villa,
can you escape from the island? Go and I'll wait for you to save me and the baby after your recovery."
"Venus!"
"Go!" She shouted at him as the closer and closer footsteps outside signaled the coming of more
guards.
Though quite reluctant, Kerry knew clear that his leaving was the optimal choice. Looking up at the
dumbfounded child, he bit his teeth and finally vanished in the room the moment before the guards
appeared.
The throng was led by Heng Zhang. He ran into the room but only found an absentminded woman with
blood all over her hands and back and a frightened half-year-old baby.
"Where’s the guy?" Heng asked angrily.
Venus pretended to be distracted and held her tongue.
Without any finding in his search of the room, Heng said to the guards followed, "Go look for him
immediately, not a nook shall be spare!"
"Yes!"
Then he came to the dead guy who was killed by a bullet to the forehead, and he could tell from the
single deadly shot that the killer must be a good shooter.
He moved back to Venus, pinched her face hard, and forced her to look into his eyes, "What did that
guy look like?".
Hearing his words, countless thoughts flashed through her mind at that moment. Fortunately, Heng
didn't know it was Kerry. Was this the silver lining for them?
Venus was still trembling, looking confused and flurried, stuttering, "I... I didn't see it clearly."
The answer didn’t seem to be out of his anticipation, Heng threw her away with a flick of his hand,
almost toppling her over.
Silence quickly came back to the room where there was no one else but a body at the door beside the
baby and her.
Like a man finally got his breath back, she kept panting heavily for quite a while before she
remembered the baby behind her, and when she turned around, she found that the baby was still
dumbfounded with empty eyes on his face.
Stung bitterly by the scene, Venus wiped the bloodstained hands on her clothes again and again before
reaching out to him, "Come on my dear, come to mommy."
His eyes lit up at hearing her calling, and soon the tears filled in them when he looked at her.
This was the first time she saw her child’s tears, and she was even more sorrowful with her tears totally
out of control, "Baby, don't be afraid, mommy is here, come here."
"Wa--" All of a sudden the child cried out loudly.
The child, who had never let out a single whine since his birth, cried heartbreakingly for such a fright,
like a knife piercing through her heart.
Venus came up to hold him in arms, tapping his back gently and consoling in a choking voice, “Dear,
dear, Mom’s here.”
The baby's loud cries were noticed by Gavin the patrolling guy outside, and as soon as he came in, a
hint of nerve flashed across his eyes when he saw the blood on Venus's clothes and the child who was
about to cry her eyes out.
"Why is the baby crying? Did he got injured?" He asked.
Venus looked at him with tearful eyes, "No, he’s just scared."
Obviously, Gavin was relived, and then his eyes narrowed, "Where did you get the blood from?"
“The man was wounded and blood was thus splattered on me." Venus said nervously.
Gavin ran a glance at the corpse at the door and seemed to believe her, "Don't round the outside, if you
get killed, I don’t take the responsibility."
Venus dropped her head and responded to him in a low voice.
Gavin looked down at the woman in front of him. Different from other women who would be shocked to
see the murder scene, she was quite calm and kept comforting the child in her arms.
He thought that it was because she was used to these cruel scenes after staying with Kerry for a long
time, but he did not know that the intruder was Kerry himself.
"How did that person break into your room?" Gavin questioned.
Venus put on an innocent expression on her face, "How could I know that? I was just feeding the baby
when he suddenly appeared, and I don't even know how he got in."
Gavin glanced at the tiny rice bowl on the table which still had half of the cold porridge in it.
"What did he say to you?"
Venus recalled for a while and said, "He asked me where your room was. When I said I didn't know, he
threatened to kill the child if I didn't tell him, but I really didn't know where you lived. And then your guy
came in, they shot each other. The man was shot in the arm, and then all the blood splashed on me as
I desperately tried to snatch the baby from his arms."
Gavin stared at her with his ghastly eyes, trying to look for a loophole in her story.
Venus tried her best to disguise herself and didn’t dare to show a trace of diffidence. This was Kerry’s
biggest secret, and she couldn’t reveal it to him. Otherwise, there would be endless troubles in their
reunion days.
"Looks like we can't stay here any longer. Pack up your stuff, we’ll leave in two hours." Gavin said icily.
Venus had a bad feeling but still had to ask, "Where are we going?"
"It’s out of your reach, you'll know when you get there."
He turned away and shouted at the guard in the distance, "Take him away."
Then two men ran over, carrying the guard died of Kerry’s shot away, leaving the bloodstain on the
ground.
As the baby's heartbreaking cries became fainter and fainter, Venus tried to switch to the other hand to
hold him as the original was numb, but the baby was so scared that he hastened to hold her tightly,
fearing that she would leave him alone. Venus was again stung by his reaction and thus continue to
keep that pose.
Hearing the baby’s cries finally reduced to be heavy breaths, Venus looked down and found that he
had fallen into sleep, and with red eyelids and nose for a long-time whining on that tear-stained face,
he looked so pitiful
After he fell asleep, she carefully put him on the bed and locked the door of the room. She went to the
bathroom to get a wet towel and wiped his face and neck, covered him with a thin blanket, and started
to clean herself up after seeing that he had been deep in his sweet dream.
Her clothes, including the light blue pants, had been stained red with blood, but time was limited, so
she directly took off her clothes and got into the bathroom to wash the blood off her body.
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