Chapter 10 - A Mouth to Mouth Resuscitation

It's time for Tyler to practice his acting skill again as they have arrived in the old mansion.

He tucked Jade's hand in his arm as they walked towards the mansion.

"Relax," Tyler whispered when he sensed that she was jittery.

Envious eyes greeted Jade as they walked past the young women who had eyed Tyler as their prospective husband were either gritting their teeth or fisting their hands into a ball.

Not even bothering to hide what they felt towards her and blatantly showed it.

Jade felt tensed at the glare she was receiving from them but she managed to wear an indifferent expression.

"Tyler," a sultry voice called Tyler's name. Jade turned her had to look at the source of the sultry voice.

A beautiful woman with a voluptuous body coming near them, wearing something that left nothing to the imagination, giving Tyler a suggestive smile.

The urge to snigger was too strong to resist, albeit Jade maintained her indifferent expression.

"Happy birthday," she said and hugged Tyler.

Her strong perfume made Jade's stomach churn, nausea was trying to overtake her.

"Excuse me," Jade unwound her hands from Tyler's arm and moved towards the balcony she spotted while her eyes roamed around the place a while back.

Fresh air caressed her face and filled her lungs once she reached the balcony. She took a deep breath and released the air slowly.

Jade moved further so as no one could see her as she wanted to have a respite. Since yesterday she was seeking solitude but she couldn't because of Tyler.

Jade thought at last she could enjoy the quietness however she was proved wrong when someone spoke behind her disrupting her solitude.

"Why is this beauty hiding here?" A man's deep and attractive voice rang in her ears.

Jade turned her head towards the man. She isn't narcissistic. No one was on the balcony except for him and she, so the remark was directed at her.

Jade narrowed her eyes once she saw the handsome man's frivolous expression.

"Hi, I'm Xerxes," the man stretched out his hand for a handshake but Jade had no intention of accepting his hand.

She looked at him with a nonchalant expression on her face.

When he arrived a while back, he spotted Jade when she was heading to the balcony.

After he scanned the place, his interest towards Jade stepped up as all the young socialites were dressed in revealing clothes except her.

While clad in a simple white dress, Jade was an irresistible pulchritude

Xerxes grinned as his impression towards her wasn't wrong. She was really different.

Exhilaration welled up as he was happy to have found a gem in the middle of trash.

All the women present in the party were all rubbish. Even how much they spent to make them classy they still looked trashy.

"May I know your name, beautiful?" Xerxes was excited to know her name.

Jade was about to open her mouth when Tyler came.

"Jade?" Tyler called her name.

Jade was somewhat relieved that Tyler showed up.

Tyler strode towards her and possessively wrapped her waist with his arm. The possesive way he held her made Jade look up at him with cheeks tainted red.

"Zimmerman," Xerxes chuckled but his eyes were not cooperating as they were chilly and glint dangerously, gone was his frivolous look.

"Schultz," Tyler acknowledged him, a hostility in his tone.

"Oh poor, Sophia, she's working hard in the States but her boyfriend is enjoying his life with his beautiful mistress," Xerxes' word was like a sword that pierced through Jade's heart.

Disappointed to learn that she wasn't any different to the women in the party, Xerxes couldn't control his tongue.

Tyler felt Jade flinched over Xerxes' statement. However, Tyler was tongue - tied at the mention of Sophia's name.

"Excuse me," Jade couldn't take the stifling air around them so she left in a hurry.

She saw a stair and went downstairs because she didn't want to go inside the mansion. She just wanted to be alone, away from their scrutiny.

Xerxes left the balcony when Jade left them as he didn't want to stay in the same space as his rival.

Fascinated by the lake that shimmers while being bathed with the moonlight, Jade followed the stoney path towards the lake.

She removed her shoes so she could walk easily down the slope.

Up from the balcony, Tyler never peeled his eyes off the woman walking towards the lake.

He followed her when he saw her remove her shoes, wondering what she planned to do.

Witnessing a wheelchair rushing down the slope and plunged into the lake. Her soul almost left as her heartbeat accelerated like she had joined a marathon.

"Help, help," the boy yelped, bringing back Jade from stupor.

Without thinking of the early autumn chill, Jade threw her shoes while she ran towards the lake and dove into the lake to rescue the drowning boy.

Seeing his wife dive into the lake in this chilly autumn season, Tyler rushes towards the lake while muttering under his breath. "This woman is crazy."

The result of having his eyes fixated on his wife, Tyler didn't see what Jade saw and had no idea that she was rescuing a drowning boy.

Jade took the boy to the edge of the lake, knelt to do CPR. She pushed and pushed his chest down but there was no response so she decided to administer mouth to mouth resuscitation.

However, before her lips touched the boy's mouth, she was pulled by someone.

Her big eyes grew bigger in anger upon seeing Tyler. "What are you doing? I'm rescuing the boy!"

Wordlessly, Tyler knelt and leaned forward to do a mouth to mouth resuscitation to the boy.

After a while the boy coughed violently as water gushed out of his mouth.

Hurriedly, not wasting another second he picked up the boy in his arms and strode towards the mansion, anxiously

Cold and wet, Jade was left alone at the lake, trembling as the chilly autumn wind blew.

Goosebumps covered her entire body, her teeth chattering and knees trembling as she came back to the mansion.

All eyes were on her when she came in. They were sneering seeing her like a fish freshly taken from the pond.

She doesn't know anyone in this place except for Tyler who seemed to have forgotten her.

She was at a loss when suddenly, someone draped a jacket on her shoulder.