Chapter 369 - Grandfather by blood (1/2)

”D-do you like me?”

Upon those words leaving Hinari's mouth, she couldn't help but hold her breath. Her eyes focused on his lips waiting for words to come out. Her heart was like a drum beating so loud in her ears that everything else faded from existence.

1 banana… 2 bananas… 3 bananas… 4 bananas… 5 bananas...

Hinari counted the seconds silently in her head and when the number reached ten, her tensed shoulders dropped. She even began to sweat because of her extreme nervousness but at the same time, she was somewhat disappointed that the sleeping beauty didn't respond. Sigh… stop acting crazy Hinari, there's no way a sleeping person could answer every question you ask, you know?!

Heaving a long deep sigh, Hinari bit her lip and she again gazed at the beautiful sleeping beauty. She raised her hand and she caressed his hair carefully. And as she caressed his hair, somehow, Hinari can't help but giggle. This is the first time she could take advantage of this sleeping beauty and the feeling was really blissful. Wow, i didn't know that petting this man feels this good... if only he would allow me to pet him like this when he's awake... Sigh... i bet he'll just flick my forehead if i do this to him while awake, right? Damn... his hair is so soft... this beauty really is too much... he's driving me mad...! T^T

”Don't mind me and rest well, beauty.” She whispered to him, giving up her silly attempt to take advantage of a certain defenseless and innocent sleeping princess.

She again surveyed his beautiful face and she felt like there were prickles in her heart as she looked at the dark circles under his eyes. For some reason, Hinari felt like she wanted to just embrace him tight. She didn't know why she felt like this but maybe this is because she wasn't just used seeing Zaki looking weak and defenseless?

”Looks like my beauty really is tired this time around. I better behave and let him rest.” She then softly said to herself and she carefully leaned her head on Zaki's, which was lying on her shoulder.

Hinari slowly closed her eyes and it seemed like she too finally felt the fatigue of roaming around the entire day. Adding the anxiety and fear from recent events, her body felt like it was drained of its energy. In no time, her body went a little limp and she seemed to finally fall asleep.

At that moment, finally hearing her slow breathing, Zaki's long lashes fluttered and in the next second, his eyes slowly opened. There was a glint of an indescribable emotion showing in his eyes and he seemed like he had been awake for a while now.

Without moving, he blinked and he slowly clenched his fists so tight like he wanted to crush his own bones as he uttered her name in his mind.

Hinari...

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Meanwhile, at the Chen residence, a certain old man in a butler's uniform arrived at the back doorstep. He turned the knob, only to find it locked. Hmm, I wonder why this is locked at this time of the day. Mr. Gou usually keeps this door open. He tried turning it again to no avail. Is there nobody at home?

Well, wasn't he just the boy scout because he was prepared for every possibility? He actually brought with him a set of spare keys to the house, being the resourceful grandpa that he was and he easily unlocked the door using them.

”Hehehe,” he laughed gleefully as he thought about how cunningly sneaky he was.

He entered the house to find that nobody was around, not a single maid nor Mr Gou. Where did everybody go?

He left the amus.e.m.e.nt park early so he could sneak in here to see if the rumors about Davi being back were true. But to his dismay, there was no one around to even just ask to confirm if this was true or not. Sighing at his bad luck, he turned to leave again when he heard several cars stop in front of the house. Are they back?!

Curious as a cat, he tiptoed his way over to the window to peek outside to see who it was that just turned up.