Way Back Into Love (Essie)

Chapter 87 Wounded

Early in the morning, Essie got up and packed her backpack.

Zac leaned against the door frame and looked at her with a confused look on his face. "Where are you

going?"

"Mandy and I are going to go to the coastline. We will camp out on the island tonight. I won't be coming

home, so remember to lock the door."

"Do you have everything with you?" Zac said, raising his eyebrows.

"Well, water jug, tent, compass... All done," Essie said, telling him the list of stuff in her backpack.

"You must bring the cellphone with you. If I call you, you must answer it within five seconds," he

ordered in a very dictator-like manner.

"What if I don't hear the phone ringing?" Essie rolled her eyes at him.

"Vibration." He flicked her forehead. She was obviously a new hiker without any experience, so he was

a little worried and he had to watch the whole process of the surveillance. "Remember, safety is the

most important thing. If you can't hold on, don't stick yourself. Call me to pick you up."

Hearing his words, Essie frowned at him in discontent and said, "Don't look down upon me. I'll stick it

out until the end."

With that, she left the apartment valiantly.

The activities of the day were going fairly smoothly. Although there were blisters on her feet already,

Essie just gritted her teeth and powered through.

In the evening, they took a boat to an uninhabited island that was over ten kilometers away from the

coast.

After Essie finished setting up the tent, she sat on the beach.

Then, she took off her shoes and applied some iodine and band aid on her wounds.

"I haven't exercised for a long time, and my feet are so delicate."

Mandy took a seat next to her and stared at the ring on her finger. She looked directly at the ring. NôvelDrama.Org: owner of this content.

Leila had told her about the ring that had been given to her by Zac. Of course, Leila did not say that it

was a diamond ring. She didn't want to reveal his true identity.

"Essie, that ring is so beautiful. Tell me where you bought it. I want to buy it too."

Mandy paid all of her attention on the ring and kept asking Essie where she could buy it. How could

she act just like Leila? From Essie's point of view, the ring was just an ordinary crystal ring, not a

diamond ring at all. Was it really necessary to pay so much attention to it? If she had known it was

something special earlier, she never would have put it on.

Last time, Mandy got so angry that she slapped Essie on the face when Zac saved her. What was

more, she wanted to cut Essie out of her life. If Essie told her the truth that the ring was a birthday gift

from Zac, she would probably misunderstand and get angry at her.

But Mandy was very stubborn, and she was determined not to stop asking Essie until she told her the

truth.

Essie continued to wander around, lay on the sand, and started humming the theme song of her

favorite TV series. "It's not impossible to say, but I dare not say it... I can tell you everything but I

can't..."

A look of anger flashed through Mandy's eyes. 'This green tea bitch!' she cursed inwardly. 'She's

keeping me in suspense again!'

"You are not married yet. Why are you wearing the ring on your ring finger? Did Hanson propose to

you?" Mandy decided to beat around the bush to get some information from her.

Essie, who had been drinking water, suddenly choked on the water and coughed.

"Mandy, that is the biggest joke you have ever made in the past ten years." Essie pretended to be

angry and stared at her. "I'm still in a state moving on. You'd better not trigger me, or I'll start crying in

front of you."

Mandy pouted and said, "You don't look sad to me either."

"I suffered internal injuries. Do you understand?" Essie crossed her legs and shook her head. "This ring

is too small for me to wear on my middle finger, so I decided to wear it on my fourth finger. After all,

even though I'm not in a relationship with anybody right now, I don't intend to start a relationship with

anyone anyway, so I don't really care what others think of me."

Essie raised her hand, and the purple heart-shaped diamond glowed in the moonlight. Mandy couldn't

help but feel hurt. "Take it off and put it on my finger," she demanded.

"I can't take it off. I have tried to soak my finger in cold water to make my finger smaller, and I've tried

putting some soap and sesame oil on my finger to get it off, but I can't." Essie had always thought that

the most dramatic and ridiculous scene in TV was when someone would try to steal someone else's

wedding ring, and be unable to take it off. She didn't expect that it could really happen in real life.

'Liar. She just doesn't want to put it on me!' Mandy thought.

A cold expression appeared in her eyes.

After they lit the bonfire, the group held a barbecue party, and they changed into their bikinis. Zac had

forbidden Essie to wear a swimming suit in public, and he had only put the mummy-like swimsuit in her

bag. But she wasn't going to put it on.

Although the uninhabited island had not been developed, it had become well-known as a paradise that

hikers could visit.

So, there was a bathroom on the hillside.

After they finished dancing, Essie went to the bathroom by herself.

Without her knowing, a shadow followed her quietly.

Miles away from the city, it was pitch black in the island at night. In the shadow of the moonlight, one

could hardly see his own fingers.

The night wind whistled back and forth in the woods like a whining ghost.

Once again, Essie turned on her cellphone for some light. The leaves and twigs under her feet made

cracking sounds with every step, completely covering up the sound of the footsteps of the stalker

behind her.

After she finished using the bathroom, Essie began to walk back.

Hearing the faint cheers from the beach as the breeze blew past her, she couldn't help but stop and

look in the direction of the beach out of curiosity.

Not far behind her, a pair of eyes glimmered in the darkness. At the same time, the moonlight broke

through the thick trees and cast a ferocious shadow on the figure's pale face.

A creepy smile appeared on the figure's bloodthirsty red lips. Then, the figure raised his slender hands

that looked like those of a ghost's, and slowly stretched them out towards Essie.