The Sweet Rival (Mango Shen and Nathaniel Ye) novel Chapter 1277

Maverick was still smiling with tears pooling in the corner of his eyes. It mixed with his blood as it dropped to the ground. He couldn't tell the blood apart from the tears.

In the end, he fainted because he lost too much blood. Just before he passed out, he took out his mobile phone and sent a message. Then he deleted it promptly.

Meanwhile, Mango and Nathaniel searched the entire mountain behind Zelle Village, but they couldn't find Barack and the others. They fell into a trap instead.

It was a trap used to catch beasts. Thankfully, there wasn't any sharp snares inside, or Mango and Nathaniel would have been injured.

Nathaniel fell into the trap first in order to protect Mango. She quickly stood up to check if he was alright.

"I'm fine. Don't worry, it's just a fall."

Nathaniel had to speak to ease her worries.

However, Mango said in a low voice, "How can I not be worried? We'd fallen from such a height. If someone had not discovered us, we would probably starve to death here. Furthermore, you suffered a heavy fall just now in order to protect me. I need to check if you hurt yourself."

She ignored Nathaniel's objection and gave him a thorough check-up. When she found that it was just a scratch, she let out a sigh of relief.

"We went separate ways to search for uncle just now. We should have brought more people with us."

Mango was a little frustrated and regretful.

On the other hand, Nathaniel shook his head and said, "It's easy to expose our whereabouts if we bring more people. Yesterday, Maverick had disrupted Augustus's plan. That old fart must be on guard constantly, and he will even seize every opportunity to kill us. Now, it may be a good thing that we have fallen into this trap."

"A good thing? Oh, you're so optimistic."

When Mango saw that Nathaniel was so calm, she calmed down as well.

She looked at her surroundings. They should be deep in the mountain now. The leaves were lush and even the grass beside the trap was as tall as an adult. It was obvious that this place was seldom visited by humans.

Mango helped Nathaniel to sit upright.

This place was spacious. It was probably created to capture large-sized beasts. She did not know if

their men would be able to find them.

"Let me send them a message."

Mango took out her phone but she was stopped by Nathaniel.

"If we send out messages at this time, I'm afraid that our signal will be located by the enemy. By then, Augustus's men will come while our men are not yet here. Then we will be in real trouble."

Mango didn't survive in the wild like Nathaniel did before, so she naturally listened to him.

Now as she looked at the dark circles under his eyes, she said while feeling sorry for him, "Why don't you lean on me and sleep for a while? You've almost gone one whole night without rest, and your body can't stand it. In here, very few people will be able to find us, and the bushes above are not destroyed as well. Relatively speaking, it's quite safe."

"Why don't you sleep for a while? I can still handle it."

Nathaniel looked at Mango as he was distressed that she had to suffer with him.

However, Mango smiled and said, "Are you still trying to be a gentleman? I'm fine, so why don't we both rest for a while? We'll find a way to leave when we wake up. By then, our body will be well rested so we'll be strong, won't we?"

"Okay."

Nathaniel pulled Mango into an embrace.

The duo snuggled up to each other. Soon, he could hear Mango snore.

Nathaniel breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that she had fallen asleep. Then he looked at the trap above and felt that they were not in danger. His eyelids felt heavy, and then he fell into a deep slumber.

Mango opened her eyes after he fell asleep.

Her eyes were bright. There was no trace of sleepiness in them.

They were outdoors now. Even if she was tired, she wouldn't dare to close her eyes, for fear that something would endanger them suddenly. If she didn't sleep, Nathaniel would definitely not rest as well.

In the past few days, Nathaniel had been busy and anxious, so he had needed to rest long time ago.

Mango snuck out from the crook of his arm gently. Then she took off her coat and draped it over his body. She took out her pistol and stood guard beside him.

Nathaniel slept for five hours straight.

When he opened his eyes, he saw that Mango was still on guard. As her eyes were filled with dark circles, he instantly knew that she didn’t rest at all.

"You..."

"I'm fine. I'm not sleepy at all."

Mango put on a faint smile. Her gentle smile was shining with warmness, which filled his heart with wonder.

"Okay, I've had a good sleep. You should take a nap, or you'll have no strength to go out."

"Alright."

Mango did not hesitate at all this time. She directly leaned to the side and closed her eyes as she fell asleep.

Nathaniel could not help but feel a pain in his heart when he saw his wife become thinner during their travel. Once they left this place, he would definitely get someone to make her some good food so that she would get enough nutrients.

After Mango fell asleep, Nathaniel discovered that she had set up some obstacles in their surroundings. She even set up some obstacles above them as well. If someone were to come down, they would immediately sense the movement.

Nathaniel always knew that Mango was smart, but he didn't expect her to use the method of designing cars here. He couldn't help but smile as a soft look grew in his eyes.