Chapter 773 - Curtis’s Hibernation Spot (2/2)

“Where were you sleeping?” Bai Qingqing asked as she gazed around the room.

Curtis swept his tail out of the nest and slapped the animal skin blanket with the dark red edge of his tail. He said, “Under this slab stone.”

Bai Qingqing’s heart throbbed. Though she could guess what the answer was, she feigned ignorance and asked, “Why here, of all spots?”

“Because I’m nearest to you here.” He could even hear the fragile and light heartbeats of his spouse while Snow was sleeping.

Curtis reached out to stroke Bai Qingqing’s face. That warm temperature, that soft touch, made him reluctant to tear away from her.

Bai Qingqing smiled at him. Clearly, they had been married for a long time, yet when they gazed into each other’s eyes like this, she could still feel her heart beating furiously.

Perhaps that was what they meant by “absence makes the heart grow fonder.”

Bai Qingqing twisted her head away uneasily.

The bedroom only consisted of three slab stones, and the slab stone upon which the nest was located was rather near to the bed-stove.

Bai Qingqing asked curiously, “With the fire there every day, did you feel hot?”

“I merely felt dry,” replied Curtis.

Bai Qingqing glanced up at him and saw that his lips indeed appeared a little dry. She hurriedly retreated from Curtis’s embrace and strode to the table to fetch him a cup of warm water.

“Quickly drink this.”

Curtis cast a glance at the exquisite and thin porcelain cup with engraved floral prints but didn’t take it from her. Instead, he bent over and put his lips to the edge of the cup.

Bai Qingqing glared at him as she raised the cup for him.

Clang clang clang.

Parker paced up and down, the iron claws on his feet making screechy noises against the slab stone as he did so, as though urging them to hurry up.

That noise was extremely ear-piercing even to a human. A layer of goosebumps rose over Bai Qingqing’s body, making her hurriedly raise the cup for Curtis to quickly finish drinking the water.