Chapter 135: You Can’t Sleep Here
When Arianna walked over to him, she said, “Hey, what a coincidence. Are you here to travel?”
“Business.”
“Oh, how is your hand?” Arianna remembered that he had been bitten by a snake.
“Do you know me?” the man asked. Arianna stared at him for a long time, confirming that she didn’t speak to the wrong person. “Vince, your amnesia has become intermittent?”
Vince smiled lightly, “I thought you really wanted to pretend not knowing me when you met me.”
Arianna was very embarrassed, remembering that she had said something like that before, but Vince was carrying a gentlemanly style, and he asked, “Since we have re-acquainted, Miss Jenkins, can you have dinner with me tonight?”
In this case, Arianna could only nod and agree. She pointed to the painting he had been watching for a quarter of an hour, “Do you like this one?”
“I like this title. I am trying to find resonance in the painting… but unfortunately, I didn’t.”
The hotel where Vince stayed was only two blocks away from the hotel Arianna booked. He chose the dining place in the middle of the two hotels.
“How is Lady Johnson doing?” Arianna asked.
“She looks pretty good, and she often mentions you.”
“Probably because I have offended her several times.”
“When no one talks back to her, she feels very bored.”
In this way, they spent a quarter of their time talking about Lady Johnson, and spent a quarter of their time talking about the body care method for his illness thanks to Vince’s second uncle’s early retirement due to physical reasons, and spent a quarter talking about York and the way wine was brewed. For the remaining quarter of the time, they talked about the local weather, and the topics were safe.
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After dinner, Vince walked Arianna back to her restaurant. They passed through an ancient alley with a long history. Vince had tall bodyguards behind him.
“Grandma’s gift will stick on you like your shadow.” Then Vince asked, “Are you going to stay here for a few days?”
“Not sure, maybe three or four days, maybe a week.”
“Work?”
“The work is over. I am traveling.”
“I will be here for a week, but I was very busy a few days ago. If you want to leave, can you tell me in advance? The last time you left me, you didn’t even say goodbye.”
“Fine with me.”
“Deal?” Vince asked suspiciously.Content © provided by NôvelDrama.Org.
“You need me to sign a document for that?”
Vince might be really busy. He didn’t appear for three days, and he didn’t call Arianna.
Arianna wandered around every day. She stayed alone in the museum for half a day. She sat alone at the lake and fed the ducks with bread. She was very tired during the day and slept early at night. Her sleep quality was good these days.
This night she was awakened by the fire alarm when she was sleeping. The historic hotel had a fire this night, and all the guests were evacuated.
Arianna didn’t bring much stuff. She put on her coat outside her pajamas, carried a small box, and ran out with the crowd.
The fire was not too heavy, and the fire control was good. The fire didn’t reach the floor where she lived, and she should be able to go back soon. When she sat in a chair and yawned and was thinking like that, Vince miraculously arrived at her side. He came to pick her up at the hotel where he stayed. He said that his assistant had booked a room for her.
“Everyone is sleeping, how can you get the news so quickly?” Arianna’s brain was a little dull.
“I played cards with customers, saw the news on the TV, and rushed over. Are you okay?”
“Nothing, thank you. The fire has been extinguished, the floor I live in is fine, maybe I can go back to sleep soon.”
“You are not safe alone. It is easy for people who are frightened to do something irrational.”
“I have always been alone.”
“You don’t know? In these old houses, after the fire, snakes and other things could show up everywhere. Are you not afraid?”
Arianna was not very keen in the middle of the night and immediately followed him to the car until she was sent to the door of the room. She woke up and asked, “Vince, were you scaring me?” There were snakes in the corners of the old house… she remembered when she was traveling abroad, she liked to look for old buildings to live in…she was sweating.
They talked while drinking. In the early hours of the morning, the heart defense of people did reduce a lot. Arianna actually told him something about her childhood under his guidance, and Vince heard that she wanted to travel and recommended several cities to her and introduced the local customs of these places.
“You do not like suffering from amnesia at all.”
“Yes? Anyone else said this,” he smiled slyly as she smiled, “All the information you have shared was actually the content of a travel magazine.” Arianna was speechless.
“You don’t hate me.” When they drank up a bottle of wine, Vince said.
Arianna was thinking about how to answer, and he said, “Of course, you don’t like me either.” Arianna had nothing to say.
“You don’t hate me, and you don’t like me, is it because of the same reason?”
“You drink too much.”
“But looking like another person is not my fault.”
Arianna changed her face, “You investigated me.” This scene was quite familiar. She thought about it. She used to protest the same content to his Grandma. Like grandma, like grandson.
Vince was silent for a while, and he said, “This is not the kind of wine like just now.”
“This has more alcohol mixed with water.”
“Do you want to get me drunk?”
“I am drinking the same wine, right?”
Their later conversations were not very pleasant. Arianna almost forgot why she had to invite him in. She just wanted to ask him to go quickly, but she couldn’t find a way to end their conversation. Finally, Arianna spilled the wine on her body deliberately, and she went to the bathroom to change clothes, which took a long time for her to come out. Thinking that he might have left, she came out and found out that he had nodded off over the table.
“Vince, wake up! You can’t sleep here!” Arianna pushed him. He snorted but was motionless.
“Are you drunk?” She tried for a long time and did not make him awake.