My Pretty Sweetheart (Arianna) novel Chapter 1017

What the heck!

I frowned in irritation, "If you want to climb, do it alone. It's getting late. I should go back. I still have work to do."

He said preposterously, "Mr. Milton mentioned that you will need to cooperate no matter what, but it seems that you're not taking this seriously."

I sucked in my breath and glared at the two of them, speechless.

Burying the urge to scream, I put down the bag and looked up at the tree. It looked to be about 3 or 4 meters. I couldn't help but let out a sigh.

It was true that I could do this. When I was in Hovell, Aaron always said that my petite frame gave me an advantage, because even the higher branches wouldn't break under my weight.

Aaron was particularly fond of coaxing me to pick fruits from trees, especially those that he wasn't able to reach. He would stand under the tree with a basket while I dropped them one by one, and promised to catch me if I ever fell.

I guess luck was usually on my side because I've never fallen when I used to climb trees when I was younger. Nowadays, tree climbing was a rare activity.

When I brought Anne back to Novell with me, I planted a pear tree in the courtyard and the pear tree grew rather tall. Every time Anne wanted to eat some, I would always climb up and pick some pears for her.

I didn't even know that Anne had told Hendrix all these things.

Seeing that I was staring blankly at the tree, Rowane taunted me saying, "Miss Reid, if you can't do it then let's forget it!"

Hendrix simply looked at me calmly.

I figured that these two people here may be rather bored. Thus thinking, I hoisted myself onto the branches and started climbing.

In order to survive, I did an ample amount of exercise while I was in the mountains of Myanway. My arm strength had grown quite a bit.

When I got partway up the tree, I looked down at the two of them and said, "Please hand the bag over!"

Hendrix handed me the empty bag in his hand and looked at me. He said softly, "Don't fall down. Be careful!"