“Is your name just Kelly?” Josiah puffed his cheeks and frowned, looking lost. “What’s your last name?”
Kelly looked down and stayed quiet.
Josiah laughed. Who cared what her last name was? A name was just a term of address.
“Alright, I’ll take you for a walk!” he said and was going to leave the room.
“Hey, you…”
Kelly tugged him back before he could walk away.
Josiah paused and looked down… He still had no pants on!
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtHe flushed immediately and looked up at her in a panic, forcing a smile that looked more like a wince.
Kelly was amused by it, and there was finally some color on her pale face.
Josiah ran back inside the dressing room frantically and pulled on a pair of pants before he took Kelly for a walk.
The fall night was beautiful. The porch was in the sun the whole day, so there was still a warm sunlight scent now. It
was quiet all around, with occasional bird chirps and dots of light that seemed like fireflies.
Kelly took a deep breath and closed her eyes gently. Standing on a porch and breathing freely like this felt like the
last lifetime to her.
“It’s nice.” She smiled and opened her eyes to look up at the navy sky.
“What?” Josiah was confused.
“I’m saying it’s already a rare thing for me to stand here and breathe fresh air like this.”
Josiah was simply more bewildered. “Don’t you usually breathe? Or do you wear a breathing mask?”
Kelly looked at him and giggled. For some reason, they had just met for the first time, but it felt like they had known
each other for a long time.
It had been a while since she laughed, and he was the reason she laughed tonight.
He had pressed her against the floor earlier to hide her from those men… Her heart sped up at that moment, and it
felt like it had never calmed down until now.
As Kelly smelled the fresh scent on his shirt and took in his masculine figure, he knocked the doors to her heart that
had been long shut off again.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏm“Kelly.” The man’s nice voice sounded. “What are you thinking about?”
Kelly’s cheeks heated up, and she ducked her head, her hair covering half of her face.
Josiah smiled, looking at her, and had the urge to push her hair away.
“Nothing…” Kelly answered softly as she looked into the sky, “Just… I’m envious of those stars.”
“Envious of the stars?”
“Mm, I want to be as free as starlight.”
It was Josiah’s first time hearing someone say that starlight was free.
To Kelly, everything in this world—a drop of water or a tree—had the freedom she dreamed of but could not have.
“You mean you like to stargaze?” Josiah asked with a smile, “Looks like you women are the same. You like things like
this that you can’t touch!”