Blind Date Turned Proposal

Dexter’s Adam’s apple bobbed as he gazed at her.

She firmly reiterated, “I want to restore my pure, unblemished self. I choose white, Dexter.”

Their eyes met, with life and death hanging in the balance of a single moment.

“You’re willing to die with me, aren’t you?”

As he slowly nodded, Josie closed her eyes in peace.

With only one minute left, Dexter moved the scissors from the red line to the white line. If one were to observe closely, they could see that Dexter’s blood-covered hand was trembling slightly.

When he applied some force, the white line snapped. Without any hesitation, he tossed the scissors aside, stood up, and embraced Josie, shielding her beneath him.

Josie held her breath, closing her eyes as she awaited the impending explosion.

Scott also immediately dove away to avoid the blast.

One second, two seconds, three seconds…

The anticipated thunderous sound never came.

opened her eyes from within his arms. “We’re not

realized it before she did. He held her even tighter, panting heavily

insane to have played this deadly game with

hold back her tears any longer now that all the pressure was

Outside, chaos ensued.

next to her, holding her hand with no

that they were unharmed, he finally breathed a sigh of relief. He said to Dexter,

eyes, a slight smirk appearing on his lips. “It wasn’t

heart out, Josie trembled slightly. When she made eye contact

a while, the bomb disposal experts arrived. Their equipment was highly professional, and they easily removed Josie’s handcuffs, allowing her

of the incident, everyone present was taken to the police station

handed Josie a cup of hot water. “Fortunately, I had someone keeping an eye on Arnold all along. That’s how I found out you were kidnapped. I sensed something was off and immediately gathered a

remember she hadn’t

then asked, “Do you know about

act for fear of causing alarm, but you

thought of Arnold and sighed.

they can to find Arnold. Once we locate him, we’ll make

that simple. Arnold was as cunning as