The Reunion After Seven Years novel Chapter 16

Jay Ning was not the type of kid who would have too much affinity with a stranger. It was an odd behavior for Nicole Ning to see coming from her child.

Jay's friendly attitude towards Kerr made Nicole feel a bit concerned while she was washing a bowl.

"Is everything alright, Nicole?"

As Kerr asked, he realized that she kept cleaning the bowl and couldn't hear him at all, which immediately caused him to lean towards Nicole very close.

However, Kerr's intentions were never meant to scare the hell out of Nicole as he caught her off guard.

"Oh my Goodness!" Nicole's hands instantly dropped the bowl as soon as she noticed Kerr.

The wet bowl that Nicole let go of hit the ground so hard that it made the floor all slippery, which caused Nicole to slip as she turned around and fell straight to Kerr while her subconscious reaction was closing her eyes.

It was really fortunate for Nicole to have Kerr right next to her to stop her from falling. Kerr couldn't help himself to ask with a smile on his face. "Do you like throwing yourself at me?"

As she was held tight in Kerr's arms, she decided not to play along with him.

"Does it seem like I am flirting with you? You just scared me and almost got me hurt." Nicole was slightly mad at him.

The embarrassment made her blush as she stood up with her hands on the bar counter.

"Then what about last time?" Kerr couldn't stop looking into her eyes, whereas she struggled to keep her eyes straight at him.

The situation was getting a bit intense as he persisted and held her tighter to pull her closer to him by every second that passed.

Nicole felt uncomfortable and hesitated to get a centimeter closer to him. "Don't forget that you're the one who came to my house without any sort of invitation. You shouldn't have asked if I liked throwing myself at you in the first place. That wasn't nice."

A few days ago, he forced a poor woman to have an abortion against her will. Nicole always promised to herself that she would make sure to bring the best things possible to Jay’s life. And as a father figure, Kerr was not even an option.

"Do you really think that I came here just because I wanted to?" Kerr continued as he was still holding Nicole in his arms. "Jay wanted me to be here. So I just accepted his friendly invitation."

She couldn't believe how naive he was. "I really thought that you weren't fool enough to take a kid's innocent words too seriously."

Nicole's and Kerr's bodies were just fingers away of distance that she could even hear his heartbeats like a machine gun being fired right next to her ears. The only thing that she wished for in that moment was to get rid of his arms around her hip.

Although he could feel the discomfort in her, he didn't let go of her.

Kerr leaned his nose towards her neck and sniffed. "Is that perfume that I smell? That is the sweetest perfume I have ever smelled." It was at this moment that Nicole was seconds away to start freaking out.

He was so dosed by her fragrance that he continued sniffing up to her right ear. Kerr had never felt this attracted and excited by someone's aroma before.

On the other hand, Nicole had never felt so nervous. Since there was no way for Kerr to let her alone, she decided to push him back.

Then, she squatted down to pick the bowl's broken pieces up.

She had barely energy left because of Kerr's heavy and oppressive aura that she was trapped in.

She was almost too stunned to realize that the bowl's pieces were dangerously sharp. And eventually, she got a really bad cut in one of her fingers. "Ouch!"

The blood immediately started to spill from Nicole's finger which made her move her hand away in pain.

Kerr raised his hands in annoyance. "You need to be more careful!"

As soon as he saw the blood spilt all over the floor, he helped her out to stand on her feet and walked out of the kitchen.

Kerr knew that the bleeding had to be stopped as fast as possible. "I need to find the first-aid kit."

He tried asking her where the first-aid kit was. However, she was literally flying to outer space. Her eyes weren't even looking at a straight direction as if she was being hypnotized and following a pendulum's movement from left to right.

"Try to relax Nicole, you're not dying. It's just a cut." Kerr was tapping her cheeks softly. "Hey! Speak to me; I need to know if you're alright please." There was no reaction from her yet.

Suddenly, Nicole's body kept falling and dragging away from Kerr's arms as if she was slowly letting herself drown in the sea. Kerr was getting so desperate that he called Jay for help.

"Jay! I need a hand here!" Kerr didn't know what to do anymore.

Jay instantly walked out of the bedroom and saw the dramatic scenario. His mother looked like she just passed out and wasn't even aware that she was being held in arms.

"What's wrong?"

"Your mom accidently scratched her finger and then fainted." Kerr was too agitated to give a more complete explanation to Jay.

He also thought that the best way to keep the situation calmed to a little kid was to briefly explain the incident before running out of the house and going to the hospital.

"She is bleeding, isn't she?" Those were the peaceful words that came out of Jay and had Kerr very surprised. "It's okay, Uncle. Just lay her body on the sofa." Kerr couldn't believe that Jay was so steady and relaxed after witnessing his unconscious mother.

It seemed that what Kerr had explained a few minutes ago was already familiar to Jay. He knew how to act in case that his mother fainted. Therefore, he tried to relieve Kerr and indicated him to put Nicole on the sofa.

"My mom has an issue with seeing blood. She always faints at the sight of any drop of blood. It always happens. She will wake up soon." Kerr was still amazed with Jay's composure as the boy approached him with the first-aid kit.