Seeing Lucia freeze for a long time, August turned his head, "What’s wrong?"
Lucia held the phone, not knowing whether to cry or to laugh, "My phone has no signal."
Hearing that, August took his phone out and looked at the screen.
Then, his eyes darkened.
Sure enough, the signal was only left half a bar.
They couldn’t even connect to the internet on their phones, let alone make a phone call.
Right now, they were trapped in the boat, and if they didn’t think of something, the situation could get
worse.
"You sit here and steady the bow.I’ll go to the stern and have a check."
August said calmly, arranging for Lucia to sit on the bow of the boat.
Then he moved to the stern and used the oars to paddle the water to see what was going on below.
Either a foreign object had gotten into the engine, making it inoperable, or there was something wrong
with the engine itself.
He knocked on the engine with the oar.
After making sure there was anything foreign, he went back to the bow and restarted the electric boat,
but it didn’t respond except for the "buzz" sound.
Lucia watched nervously from the sidelines and took a deep breath.
And when she saw that the boat still couldn’t move, she couldn’t help but ask, "What if we’re really
stuck here?"
August froze and looked back, just in time to meet Lucia’s eyes, bright, but with a bit of worry.
He opened his mouth and said in a slow, reassuring voice, "Don’t worry and we won’t be stuck here."
As long as he was there, he wouldn’t let anything happen to her.
After August attempted to start the boat several times, it still did not move.
August frowned and was sure that there should really be a problem with the engine.
He turned his head and looked around.
They were right at the corner behind a clump of bushes, and even if a boat came by. they would be
blocked from view by the tall bush.
They couldn’t see the boat over there, and the people on the boat over there couldn’t see them either.
Even if they wanted to ask for help from passing boats, it would be a problem unless boats were
coming around the bush to see them.
Taking a closer look at the nearby situation, August inadvertently drooped his eyes and saw Lucia
sitting in the boat with her two hands clasping together and her cheeks flushing.
August hesitated and said in a deep voice, "Cheer up.If a boat passes this way, we can go back."
Lucia nodded and tried to stand up to look around as well.
But just as she stood up, she swayed from side to side along with the boat, almost losing her balance.
Suddenly, August put his one warm, strong palm on her shoulder and gently pressed her to sit down,
"You sit well to stabilize the boat and I’ll deal with it."
Listening to August’s instructions, Lucia settled down a lot and nodded seriously.
She was unlucky to be trapped in the boat when she came out to take the boat to the lake, but
fortunately, he was with her.
Lucia took a look at the time and saw that it was time to finish the race.
At this time, everyone shall have returned to the shore.
The surrounding temperature was getting lower.
Sitting in the boat, Lucia could obviously feel the chill.
Her hands and feet become cold first, followed by her whole body.
August stood at the stern of the boat for a long time, without seeing a boat.
He looked back and saw Lucia sitting there and shivering a little.
"Are you cold?"
He became serious, immediately turned around, and reached out to touch her hand which was cold as
ice! In the past few days, she got wet and had a fever, and after that, she fell into the water.
And now she had been sitting in the boat on the lake for more than an hour, without eating any food
and having no energy.
If this continued, she would definitely catch a cold.
And once she was sick and her immunity decreased, she couldn’t have surgery August frowned, did
not hesitate to take off his sports jacket, and was about to put it on Lucia.
Seeing August only wore a gray T-shirt inside, Lucia shook her head repeatedly, "No, I’m not cold
August’s face was more somber.
Without saying a word, he put the jacket on her and zipped it up by the way, wrapping her up tightly.
Lucia took a deep breath, stared at him, and asked, "What do you do when you let me wear your
clothes?"
Even if he was in good physical condition, the boat was on the lake and he certainly couldn’t stand the
cold.
August spoke rather seriously.
"You just wear it, and I’m strong.Understand?"
Seeing that August strongly insisted, Lucia had to take back the words that had come to her lips.
Time passed silently and every second seemed to be stretched out, making people feel difficult and
anxious! Lucia took a deep breath, reached out to gently take August’s arm, and whispered, "Let’s have
a chat"
Otherwise, time passed slowly.
At that, August paused for a moment and then sat down at the side, "What do you want to talk about?"
Lucia tilted her head in thought and said softly, "I want to know how you became the president of the
Lion Group to take the sole responsibility?"
When he heard her question, August’s eyes suddenly darkened a bit.
In those days, he tried desperately to prove himself in front of his father, tried desperately to get out of
his father’s glory, and tried desperately to make a world by himself, which was very painful for him.
He kept tempering himself, from the most basic drinking, talking about business, to planning, and
drawing up contracts.
Until he knew all the projects by heart and figured out the business world, he grew up but his father got
sick.
He naturally became the successor of the Lion Group, and there was no objection.
Seeing that he didn’t speak for a long time, but stared blankly in one direction, Lucia slowly approached
him and whispered, "Is it a secret?"
With some coldness in his eyes, August said lightly, ’I have experienced a lot of pain, but also learned a
lot of things."
His tone was so light that one could not imagine the darkness of that time.
Lucia’s heart sank and this was the first time she had heard August say something so serious.
A simple sentence seemed to include too much pain and suffering.
Lucia held her chin in her hand and murmured, "Actually, I also want to be a person like you."
Just as she finished her sentence, August’s low voice came to her ears, "You don’t need."
"Why?"
August relaxed and leaned lazily and casually against the railing next to him, "So tired.You don’t need
to be so tired and you’re just fine the way you are."
Naive and innocent.
This topic seemed to have become the key to opening the hearts of the two and they unknowingly
chatted a lot.
Not long after, August felt a little heavy on his shoulder.
When he turned his head, he saw Lucia leaning her head on his shoulder.
From his angle, he could just see her delicate upturned nose.
She murmured, "Do you think they’ll find out we didn’t go back?"
August whispered, "Yes, they will."
There was nothing they could do now.
Their cell phones couldn’t call for help, and one oar wouldn’t row the boat.
They were left with one last way out, which was to wait for their colleagues to realize they hadn’t
returned and sail to find them.
Feeling Lucia beside him quieted down and didn’t say a word for a long time, August turned his head
and saw that Lucia had closed her eyes unknowingly.
Sleeping in such conditions was most likely to get sick! He frowned and immediately said, "Lucia, you
can’t sleep."
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