Chapter 378 Sat with Him All Night
Winston bit down hard on his lip; tears kept streaming from his eyes, falling onto his arm.
He seemed determined not to make a sound–his jaw clenched tightly, his silence unbroken.
If Dalton hadn’t looked down, he probably wouldn’t have noticed that Winston’s face was soaked with
tears.
He could feel the grief radiating from Winston’s body;
It was thick, heavy in the air, dragging his own mood down with it. Dalton stopped talking; suddenly, he didn’t want to ask anything anymore.
He didn’t want to ask what Winston had gone through, or why he was crying.
He just sat quietly beside him–just stayed there.
Pretending not to notice he was crying.
In the end, Dalton sat with Winston in that park all night long.
From evening until morning.
He called his parents himself and said he’d be sleeping over at an old friend’s place; that was how he covered it up. Of course, he’d already arranged things with the friend.
He also threatened the bodyguards, warning them not to say a word about what happened that night.
Maybe it was because Dalton had sat outside with him like a fool through the whole night-
That this cold, distant guy named Winston actually spoke to him on his own.
“You should head home,” Winston said quietly in the early morning, turning his head to look at him.
There were still dried tear stains on his face; his eyes were like cold moonlight, filled with a sharp, icy detachment.
“What about you?” Dalton softly asked.
“Of course I want to go home,” he answered calmly. “But I was worried about you… That’s why I stayed here…”
Winston pressed his thin lips together and said nothing more; he stared into Dalton’s eyes, deep and unreadable.
After a while, he spoke again, cool and indifferent. “I’m going home too.”
Dalton’s eyes lit up instantly. “Really?”
Winston nodded without emotion. He added, almost with a trace of irony, “Where else can I go… other
than home now…”
Dalton finally let out a sigh of relief; he smiled and said, “Then let me take you home.”
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“If I can’t make sure you really get back, I won’t be able to relax.”
Winston didn’t refuse.
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In the end, Dalton personally brought Winston back to the Ginger family’s house before he finally left with peace of mind.
Reading up to this point, Jean fell silent.
She pressed her lips together, unsure what to say.
Her chest ached a little. Winston… he really was kind of pitiful…
It was hard to imagine that the boy who now looked so rebellious and untamed had once sat in a park. broken and helpless, crying his eyes out.
The way he turned out… it really wasn’t hard to understand.
After a moment of silence, Jean started typing.
Jean texted: “What you just said… it’s so touching and sad…”
Then she sent a crying emoji.
Dalton texted: “Thinking back on that time still makes me sad.”
Dalton added: “It’s like I relived it all over again…”
Jean asked: “So then, did you and my brother become friends after that? I mean, you helped him when he was at his lowest…”
Dalton replied: “After that day, he wasn’t quite so cold anymore. But we weren’t really friends yet–we just exchanged contact info.”
Dalton continued: “For a long time afterward, we didn’t meet again, but we kept in touch by phone. I was usually the one to message him first and check in on him. Your brother, at first… honestly, he barely responded to me.”
Jean texted: “Haha, yeah, I can totally picture that.”
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