Stanford hadn’t expected that Florence would suddenly run towards Ernest, yet he had triggered the gun and it was too late to retreat it.
At that critical moment, he couldn’t only move the gun aside.
The bullet deviated from its course, yet it still swooshed towards Florence and Ernest.
Stanford stared blankly at the direction of the bullet and could only see it swooshing towards Florence. But out of his surprised, he saw Ernest rush towards Florence without hesitation and protected her with his own body.
The body inserted into somewhere.
Florence felt no pain from her body, but her heart wrenched and missed one beat.
The bullet didn’t hit her, but did it mean that it hit Ernest.
“How’s you, please, Ernest, please, tell me, how’s you?”
Florence burst into crying.
She grabbed Ernest’s cloth tremblingly and looked towards him with her blurry eyes. She looked very flustered.
Ernest raised his hand to wipe away her tear. He shook his head and smiled.
“I’m fine.” Ernest pointed at the wall when speaking. Two bullets were inserted in the wall in parallel, “Look, the bullets are in the wall.”
When seeing that the bullets were really in the wall, Florence, who had been highly strung up, finally heaved a sigh of relief.
“I’m scared. Awww… You scared me.”
Ernest put his big palm on Florence’s back and patted her gently to calm her down.
He comforted her in a soft voice, “I’m fine. It’s all past.”
Stanford’s expression was hideous. He looked at Ernest with complicated emotions in his eyes.
He was shocked and it looked like he couldn’t believe this.
He was the one to trigger the gun and naturally he was so clear that Ernest almost died just now.
If it wasn’t that the bullet deviated from it course and that Ernest rushed towards Florence so abruptly, the bullet should have his Ernest.
But when Ernest ran towards Florence, he didn’t foresee that the bullet would deviate from its course under that pressing situation.
Ernest protected Florence at the cost of his life.
Stanford couldn’t believe that Ernest would do that for Florence, but it really happened just now. He was so shocked.
Ernest could even sacrifice his life to protect Florence. Was he really scheming against Florence?
Stanford doubted this for the first time.
Under Ernest’s consolation, Florence gradually calmed down herself.
But she became nervous at the next moment.
She hurriedly took a step forward and protected Ernest behind herself again.
“Stanford, you’ve really gone too far! If Ernest really dies, I will not forgive you for the rest of my life.”
Stanford was stunned and his face became pale.
Since he got to know her, Florence had always behaved obediently and had never spoken to him in such a sharp tone.
He finally realized that Ernest seemed to be so important to Florence.
Seeing that Stanford was lost in his own thoughts, Florence hastily pulled Ernest to the windows and urged him in whisper, “Leave, quickly, I will stop my brother.”
Ernest looked towards Stanford with complicated emotions in his eyes. It seemed like Stanford wouldn’t shoot him again.
Nevertheless…
Ernest nodded his head and said to Florence in a low voice, “Don’t move randomly in case that your wound will open again.”
Oh, could he distinguish which matter was more important at this moment? Florence anxiously pushed her, “I see. Hurry up and leave.”
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