"Hang in there. This is the most difficult part of the trail. After this, we will reach the mountain top. The road down the mountain will be much easier," Hansen easily climbed ahead and encouraged Jenna.
It seemed that he could encourage other people too! He was even caring and considerate, which was really rare to see. Jenna smiled.
Standing on the top of the not-so-big mountain, all of a sudden, the horizons were widened with the vast azure sea in sight. It was hard to distinguish which was the sea and which was the blue sky. The sun was hanging high in the sky, giving off a dazzling light. The turquoise sea, with its surface that was as soft as silk, with ripples and waves occasionally, was vast and boundless. The beauty of the dusk left Jenna in a daze as she exclaimed and recited a poem about the beauty of nature.
"Do you like it?" Hansen stood beside her and looked around. His thin lips were slightly curved and his eyes were bright and beautiful. His expression was exceptionally appealing.
Jenna felt a sense of unreality in her heart. Would Hansen actually care about whether she liked it or not?
She liked it very much.
She breathed through her mouth and removed all her frustration through her breaths. She stretched her body and muscles. The cool autumn wind quickly dried the sweat on her forehead. From her beautiful eyes, one could see there were thousands of thoughts in her mind!
Suddenly, Jenna sadly realized that beautiful things could hardly arouse her interests as they used to. She always felt inexplicably depressed. She sighed and looked down.
It was because she had experienced too many vicissitudes of life and was at a loss for what to do. Her senses had gone numb!
"Why are you sighing?" Hansen turned his head slightly and asked.
Her beautiful facial features were so stunning under the sunset, and her delicate eyebrows were slightly furrowed. There were endless worries in her mind, and the sadness on her face could not be concealed.
An idea came to his mind when he suddenly thought of what his grandma had said. Unspeakable annoyance drifted through his mind, and he turned his head and stared at her.
He had an impulse to reach out to touch her face to get rid of her sadness. Just like his first time meeting her, there seemed to be many stories to be told from her bright eyes. The stories that he couldn't understand, or stories that weren't his.
Which beloved man did she design that luxury car for? Was it Rayan?
The more he thought about it, the more annoyed he was.
She must have been very unhappy in those years of marriage. Was he the one who caused her sadness and pain?
How on earth did such a weak body survive? Even when she was smiling, he could see a trace of hidden pain on her face.
He was slightly moved. Had he hurt her?
The weight of life was too much for anyone to bear. There were too many obstacles in front of them. He didn't want that, but no one wished for that either!
Looking at the vast sea, he suddenly felt that they were just a small part of the world, like the grass. However, grass would die and resurrect repeatedly, but they only had one life. The time that had passed would never come back. Now, they were still running in the dark. They could not see where their future was and did not know when they should stop.
Hansen suddenly fell silent.
"Hansen, what happened to the two cars?" Jenna did not forget that question. When they were at the foot of the mountain, he pulled her aside and asked her, "Do you want to know about the two cars?"
After he said that, he just smiled eerily. At that time, Jenna was so creeped out that she had goosebumps.
Could it be that Hansen had brought her to the island for more than just pleasure? That was why she had chosen him without hesitation.
Although she had already planned to give up on it, that's what she came to Richards Group for in the first place. It was really unrealistic to say that she had given up completely. After all, it was related to her father's feud! Her father's cause of death was unclear. If she was to blame for causing Uncle Richards to be in a vegetative state, it was unintentional. However, if someone had planned to murder her father, that was intentional murder, which was of a completely different nature.
After getting along with Hansen for so many days, she felt more and more that Hansen was not such a ruthless person. Moreover, he knew the law. Although he was scheming, it was only in the business circle. To kill a person, especially Jenna's father was so obviously suspicious, it was completely unnecessary and impossible, just as Hannah had said.
If it was for Trevor's sake, she might not really take revenge on him. What if it wasn't Hansen who did it? Wasn't the purpose of her staying by his side all the while was to get to the bottom of it?
Whether or not to seek revenge, she had to figure it out!
If it wasn't Hansen, then she must avenge her father! Jenna respected her father the most. Besides Trevor, she did not owe anything to anyone else. She had never done anything illegal and her father had always been a respected government official and had never offended anyone. Who would do such a thing to him? Even her mother had become wheelchair-bound.
The pain on her face could not be suppressed, and there was an exceptional torment in her heart, as if there were countless ants biting her all over.
"It seems that if it weren't for this reason, you wouldn't have chosen to follow me, right?" Hansen's voice became colder, with a trace of displeasure.
Jenna looked at him strangely. Was he upset about that? Would he care about who she would have chosen?
He had always hated her and wanted to stay away from her as far as possible. All those years, he had avoided her deliberately and wanted to humiliate her and make fun of her. She was not a fool. How could she not understand?
"Shouldn't he be happy if I didn't choose him?"
However, at that time, his face was darkened and it seemed that he was displeased. Jenna was a bit baffled for a moment.
"Hansen, tell me, have you found the two cars?" She could not care about anything else. She wanted to know about the two cars so badly. After all, the car was stained with her father's blood.
As Hansen's gaze on her was getting colder and more unpredictable, Jenna's heart suddenly pounded wildly and she felt very uneasy!
"Tell me first, what do you want those two cars for?" The cold light in his eyes was almost harsh.
Tell him? Didn't he know or was he trying to set her up? The pain and sorrow in her clear eyes flowed out little by little. She clenched her fists and clung onto her clothes. She gritted her teeth and said word by word, "Hansen, do you really not know what I want those cars for?"
Jenna's eyes were full of desperation and pain!
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