Chapter 46: She Couldn’t Afford the Risk

Olive took the glass in her hand. After hesitating for a while, Olive

touched his glass by her glass. She lifted her head, drank, and drained

it. She raised her eyebrow at him defiantly, and she looked attractive

when she did that.

Alan laughed, "aren't you afraid I'll force you to have sex with me after

a few drinks?"

Olive picked up the wine bottle of La Romanee-Conti from some years

and poured each other another glass of wine, "it's wasteful not to drink

good wine. Men get drunk and have sex that's just their excuse. They

used it either to embolden them or to commit murder. Alan, are you

such a disgusting person?”

Alan took the glass in his hand, shook it slowly, and looked at her

meaningfully, "I'm not interested in other people. But I can't promise

you I won't get drunk and have sex with you. *

Olive felt the veins in her temples throbbing violently. She faked a

smile, "Alan, you're joking again.”

"I'm serious.” Alan looked at her deeply. His dark eyes were deep and

difficult to distinguish. They looked like the deep pool and ancient well

that the surface looked calm, but in fact the waves have been very

rough beneath.

"Well, do I look like a sheep in a tiger's mouth and am I just sitting

there waiting to die?" Olive smiled. She was not afraid of him. She was

just not sure what he was thinking behind his serious face. She had to

play a joke to hide her panic.

He replied, "let's drink. You said it's wasteful not to drink good wine"

Olive could not follow the logic of his words.

But on a night like this, it's easy to get drunk with a little wine.

It's not the wine that intoxicated but the drinker who got himself drunk.

Olive, on the other hand, struggled to keep awake after a few drinks.

She told herself that this man belonged to another woman, and that

woman could turn her family upside down overnight.

She couldn't afford the risk.

After she had eaten and drunk enough, she picked up the garbage that

they had created, she put the garbage in a plastic bag and put it in the

corner. Such a beautiful island should not be polluted by human

garbage.

There were not many places left in the world that were still clean

Without doing anything, the atmosphere in the tent suddenly became

oppressive. Olive looked at this small space with embarrassment. It's

not like they haven't been in bed together before, but after all, there's a

difference between the present and the past.

He was no longer the man she could have courted in her youth. It's not

just that having the courage to love meant being together.

She suddenly remembered some storylines on TV. Olive’s eyes lit up.

She arranged the empty bottles, two wine glasses, a few mineral water

bottles and unopened snacks in a straight line. She drew a line with

him.

"You sleep on that side, and I sleep on this side. One should care his

own business.”

"Childish." He said to her, and with the sweep of his long leg, the line

she had drawn vanished. She didn't have time to move back, so he

knocked her down too. He rolled over and pressed her under him, "do

you think, if I really want to do something to you, you could get away

tonight?"

Olive struggled nervously, but could not get away from him. She had to

save her strength, "but you said you wouldn't do anything to me if I

didn't want to."

"But as I said, it was hard for me to control myself when I met you." His

eyes flickered with fascination for her.

Looking for five years, only she made him have such a strong feeling.

He and she seemed to know for a long time.

Alan clearly remembered how amazing he felt when he first met her.

For the sake of her friend, she scolded a high-spirited man to the dust.

He would almost applaud her were it not for the occasion.

At that moment, he only thought of this sentence to describe how he

felt: I've been looking for her, but I can't find her anywhere. I suddenly

look back, but found that she’s right in front of me, not far away.

In order to get close to Olive, he bought her company directly at a high

price. It was probably the worst deal he had ever made in business, not

for profit, but to get to know a woman, a strange woman.

Now this woman was lying under him. Over the years, his self-control,

which he thought strong, suddenly became weak.

He was longing for her.

However, he did not want to have casual sex with her.

He was not sure whether she was that girl or not, though he felt

strongly that she was that girl.

That instinct made no sense. Even though Olive had always looked as if

she did not understand the meaning of his words, and seemed a

stranger to him, his feeling was so strong that only one thought

remained: the woman he was looking for in his previous life was just

around the corner.

There must have been something he did not know about the sudden

disappearance of that girl.

Whether it was something that forced her to leave, or she was

deceiving him, there was only one truth, and he would find it.

He reached out and gently touched Olive's face. His fingers were

calloused with the smell of tobacco and rubbed against her cold skin.

Olive lay there stiff. Though she was lying on the blanket, she was still

trembling. She closed her eyes as if resigned to her fate.