Way Back Into Love (Essie) novel Chapter 87

Early in the morning, Essie got up and packed her backpack.

Zac leaned against the door frame and looked at her with a confused look on his face. "Where are you going?"

"Mandy and I are going to go to the coastline. We will camp out on the island tonight. I won't be coming home, so remember to lock the door."

"Do you have everything with you?" Zac said, raising his eyebrows.

"Well, water jug, tent, compass... All done," Essie said, telling him the list of stuff in her backpack.

"You must bring the cellphone with you. If I call you, you must answer it within five seconds," he ordered in a very dictator-like manner.

"What if I don't hear the phone ringing?" Essie rolled her eyes at him.

"Vibration." He flicked her forehead. She was obviously a new hiker without any experience, so he was a little worried and he had to watch the whole process of the surveillance. "Remember, safety is the most important thing. If you can't hold on, don't stick yourself. Call me to pick you up."

Hearing his words, Essie frowned at him in discontent and said, "Don't look down upon me. I'll stick it out until the end."

With that, she left the apartment valiantly.

The activities of the day were going fairly smoothly. Although there were blisters on her feet already, Essie just gritted her teeth and powered through.

In the evening, they took a boat to an uninhabited island that was over ten kilometers away from the coast.

After Essie finished setting up the tent, she sat on the beach.

Then, she took off her shoes and applied some iodine and band aid on her wounds.

"I haven't exercised for a long time, and my feet are so delicate."

Mandy took a seat next to her and stared at the ring on her finger. She looked directly at the ring.

Leila had told her about the ring that had been given to her by Zac. Of course, Leila did not say that it was a diamond ring. She didn't want to reveal his true identity.

"Essie, that ring is so beautiful. Tell me where you bought it. I want to buy it too."

Mandy paid all of her attention on the ring and kept asking Essie where she could buy it. How could she act just like Leila? From Essie's point of view, the ring was just an ordinary crystal ring, not a diamond ring at all. Was it really necessary to pay so much attention to it? If she had known it was something special earlier, she never would have put it on.

Last time, Mandy got so angry that she slapped Essie on the face when Zac saved her. What was more, she wanted to cut Essie out of her life. If Essie told her the truth that the ring was a birthday gift from Zac, she would probably misunderstand and get angry at her.

But Mandy was very stubborn, and she was determined not to stop asking Essie until she told her the truth.

Essie continued to wander around, lay on the sand, and started humming the theme song of her favorite TV series. "It's not impossible to say, but I dare not say it... I can tell you everything but I can't..."