By the time she returned to the Nachts’ residence, the sun had set. As night approached, it looked as though a black veil had blanketed across the sky, making it look mysterious and distant.

Coming down from the car, Charlotte was distracted. Various questions were running amok in her mind, waiting for the answers that could settle them down.

“Ms. Windt,” greeted the surrounding guards and maids.

For a moment, Charlotte felt as if she was the lady of the house.

She shook her head, trying to shake the thought off her mind. “Where’s Mr. Nacht?” she asked.

“Mr. Nacht is at the pool. I’ll lead you there,” a maid replied. 

“All right. Thank you.”

Charlotte followed the maid across the garden to the pool. From afar, she could see a large blue lamp shining at the pool.

 

The light made the surface of the pool shimmer, and she could see a figure swimming in it.

Under the light, his slender figure seemed nimble. Looking at him, she could feel that familiar enigmatic sense exuding off him.

 

Charlotte jogged toward him. She wanted to use the opportunity to find out whether he had the tattoo on his lower back.

of it. From the land, she could see a patch of dark green on his back, which meant he had a tattoo. Nonetheless, she could not see the design of his

as she jogged to the other end of

to him for a better

the moment she came closer, he swam to

was her running after him

surfaced and wiped his face, he gave

he was looking

huffed as she

he lowered himself into the water again and continued

in and out of his

to leave, but her footsteps halted after taking a

can’t leave. If I don’t find out about his identity today, I’m not sure I’ll

have the time nor sense to find out about

he can’t

pool were ivory lounge chairs and tables. On the table was a bottle of red wine, a bucket of ice, and some

an ice cube out from the bucket and

cube landed beside him, and Zachary jolted a little before

another piece. Like the previous ice

popped out of the

handful of ice cubes

time, the ice cubes landed on

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