A hint of astonishment flashed across Nina's eyes.
'This voice... How is it possible?'
she thought to herself.
Slowly, Nina sat up straight. She suspected that what she was seeing was an illusion because of what Noah had just said.
"Where is the popcorn?" Nina asked hesitantly, her amber eyes flickering, and her face showing an expression of complication.
Before John could say anything, Vicente said something first. "Isn't the popcorn here?"
"Shut up!" Nina shouted at Vicente. She was so frightened by her eruption that her hand shook and retracted away from the popcorn.
'What's wrong?
Why is Nina so fierce?' she wondered.
Vicente felt a look of hostility gazing at her. She looked around the theater to find where that look was coming from.
It turned out to be the waiter serving popcorn.
"Put down the popcorn and get out," Vicente commanded angrily, lashing out after Nina's unfriendly attitude towards her.
John didn't mind Vicente at all. He put the popcorn in Nina's hand, which had been frozen in the air. His throat tightened.
"Here you are."
"It's real!" Nina was certain that the person in front of her was John. She stood up abruptly with her hand on her waist.
She was in such a hurry that she knocked over the popcorn.
A smile formed on John's lips. His wife recognized him.
As to not arouse Vicente's suspicion, he said, "Yes, the popcorn is real."
"The popcorn is spilled. What's wrong with you?" Vicente scolded him.
With light gleaming from her wet eyes, Nina suppressed the excitement in her heart and said, "What's wrong with you? The popcorn is spilled."
'John, what's up?
Why did you come all of a sudden?'
Nina stared straight at the person in front of her. Even though she could only see half his face and his silhouette against the light from the movie screen, she could still feel the tears in his eyes.
She also started to tear up. After a long time, they had finally met.
Nina moved her body and wanted to jump into his arms.
Just by looking at the longing and excited expression in her eyes, John knew exactly what she wanted to do.
He also wanted to grab her and give her a tight embrace.
However, Vicente was still here. John remembered Leon's constant reminder not to expose his identity to anyone, and especially not to provoke Vicente.
No matter how much he wanted to, he couldn't afford to be impulsive.
"The popcorn is spilled. I'll take you to buy another one, okay?" John was so excited that his voice kept cracking from his tightened throat. Moreover, the sound from the movie diluted his volume, and his voice sounded like a whisper, as if only he was the only one who could hear it.
As soon as Nina recognized him, she had automatically blocked all external stimuli that wasn't John's. At that moment, all her eyes could see was him and all her ears could hear was the sound of his voice.
Just from his voice and demeanor, she understood John's situation and what he was trying to do.
When he said, "I'll take you to buy another one," what he was really saying was "let me take you away."
This careful way of asking made her heart ache.
"Okay." Tears ran down her cheeks as she nodded.
As soon as she said that word, John reached out his hand to pull her. When her fingertips touched his hand, her heartstring was pulled slightly, as if the warmth of his hand were the hot air blown in winter.
That warm feeling overwhelmed her.
The emotions she had buried deep in her heart for more than half a year exploded. The moment their fingers touched, her love for him captured her.
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