Night Summer Trouble

Yeah, I supposed a dream would just stay a dream.After all, I could not imagine something I had no experience with. Hence, the dream came to an end. When I woke up, the sun was already up. I was in my room, and Zachary was not beside me. I must have lost my mind. I really thought that Zachary had come into my room last night!As I remembered all that transpired in my dream, my cheeks burned.How embarrassing. I ran into my bathroom and washed my face with cold water. Only then was I able to calm my jumbled-up thoughts and emotions. However, the moment I looked up, I noticed an obvious love bite on my collarbone. My heart skipped a beat. The embarrassing things that had happened in my dream rose to the forefront of my mind again. Oh, no. Had I been too thirsty and left a love bite on myself?…My thoughts were a mess. When I walked into the living room, I met Zachary’s eyes. “Come have breakfast,” he said coolly, as usual.Since he was part of the embarr

“Why are you here?”It was Zachary’s voice. “Sorry, Uncle. I didn’t know you were in the bathroom.”He turned on the light, and it was so dazzling that I could not get used to it. I rubbed my eyes and looked at him. Zachary only had a towel wrapped around his waist, and water was sliding down his abs. His eyes were bloodshot, and he held something I found really familiar in his left hand. Stunned, I asked, “Isn’t that my…?”He immediately covered my eyes. “It isn’t.”Zachary’s voice was a little hoarse, and even his palm was burning. He soon pulled his hand away. “It’s late. Why are you here in the bathroom?”“To take a shower…”He had his left hand behind him, and I dared not look at him.“Okay.”He left the bathroom and, in a show of consideration, shut the door for me. I could not quite believe it. He was holding one of my undergarments in his left hand. When I woke up the next day, I found that it was already dry. Zachary had always done these things for

After I moved out of Zachary’s place, I thought that he would never see me again. However, fate was a fickle thing. One day, after I finished a gig with Avalon, he asked me to go back to the hotel first. He had to discuss certain details with the client. The remote mountain road was bumpy, and it seemed to never end. So, I asked the person next to me, “How much longer?”The man did not even look at me as he answered, “Soon.”It was dark, and I did not remember the path to the shooting location. There were three men and another woman in the car. The woman was a staff member. She had been speaking to the client at the shooting location. After they got into the car, no one said a thing. It was as if they all knew where this car was actually headed.I felt a little uneasy. It should have taken only an hour to arrive at the hotel, but the driver had been driving for one and a half hours. Additionally, the signal in the area was bad. Half an hour ago, Avalon had asked

Avalon visited me as I was leaving the hospital. “Thank goodness you’re okay, Summer! Sorry, I should’ve been with you that night. I shouldn’t have let you leave alone. I only got to know that the female staff member was a human trafficker when I saw the news. I nearly got you killed. I’m so sorry!”As Avalon apologized, tears welled up in his eyes. “It’s okay. You didn’t expect it. But let’s not go to such a remote place for work again—”Before I could finish speaking, Zachary dragged me away. “You’re still talking about a next time?”He scowled as he stuffed me into the car. Avalon wanted to talk to me, but he shrank back at Zachary’s intense glare. I could only send him a message to offer an explanation. Zachary did not say a single word while he drove. After he sent me back home, he took my phone away. “Take a shower.”“Uncle, my phone…”I could not tell what he was thinking. I only knew that he was going to lecture me for a long time over this. Whenever I ma

“Uncle… I can’t breathe…” I mumbled, and Zachary had to let me go.He nuzzled his nose against mine and whispered, “Do you know who I really like now?”I was in a daze from the kiss and nodded. “Uncle… do you like me?”“What do you think?”“But you tore up my love letter and yelled at me to not have feelings for you. What’s with this now?”He flicked my nose. “Don’t you remember how old you were when you confessed, and how old I was back then? If I harbored feelings for you when you were seventeen, I’d be a monster.”Oh. I suddenly understood why Zachary yelled at my seventeen-year-old self so fiercely. “I was worried that you couldn’t grasp what you really felt toward me, and I was worried that I’d hurt you. At that time, you were really young. You didn’t understand anything. But I can’t not understand it.”Zachary’s tone made it clear that he had been holding back for years. “Whenever I dreamed of you, I felt like I was committing a crime. I’ve already tried my best to a